The federal government wants to maintain, but reform, the controversial Article 219a, which prohibits advertising for abortions.
A new legal regulation should specify that and how doctors and hospitals can inform about future abortions. The declared Chancellery head Helge Braun. '
The advertising ban should also remain in the future. "Advertising for abortion may not exist in the future," said Braun. The German Medical Association and the Federal Center for Health Education should be given the task of providing contact information.
However, the factions of the two governing parties still have to agree with the proposals. SPD leader Andrea Nahles welcomed the breakthrough in the negotiations. "We will now wait for the exact text of the law and then evaluate, advise and decide on it in our political groups in January," she said.
After several hours of deliberations, Braun (CDU), Interior Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU) and Justice Minister Katarina Barley and Family Minister Franziska Giffey (both SPD) agreed on the "German Government's proposal to improve information and care in pregnancy conflict situations".
For weeks, CDU and SPD have been debating the criminal law clause, after making themselves punishable by offering "public abortions" for "its pecuniary benefit".
The Union has always rejected amendments to the current law. She wanted to keep the law and pleaded for the introduction of lists of practices and clinics that perform abortions.
The SPD had demanded that the dissemination of information about abortions for doctors should be impunity in the future.
The conflict has been smoldering since the beginning of the grand coalition. SPD party leader and fraction leader Andrea Nahles tried then against the votes of the Union to bring in an application of the SPD for deletion - she saw herself justified, since the SPD had submitted the motion before the start of the coalition. At the request of the CDU to withdraw the request, Nahles had yielded.