The doctor Kristina Hänel was convicted of violating paragraph 219a. She filed a constitutional complaint, but the court did not accept it.
The law has already been abolished, the court announced. In principle, there is no general interest in having the constitutionality of old law clarified, it said. The Bundestag voted for the deletion of the paragraph in June last year, there were no abstentions. It was about the fact that in the past, doctors were repeatedly unable to provide detailed information about abortions.