Last updated on April 4th, 2025 at 02:12 pm
In a bold and unapologetic stand for the unborn, German politician Vanessa Behrendt of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) delivered a fiery speech in the Lower Saxony parliament, exposing the moral bankruptcy of leftist parties like the SPD and Greens. She accused them of sanctioning the slaughter of innocent babies and fostering a chilling divide between those fortunate enough to be born and those denied life before they can even draw breath.
“Dear Madam President, dear survivors—no, I won’t retract that—every one of you sits here today because you weren’t aborted. You were born,” Behrendt declared, opening her address with a stark reminder of the obvious. When the state parliament’s vice president, Barbara Otte-Kinast, chided her for the term “survivors,” Behrendt didn’t flinch. “Fine, then—dear people who weren’t aborted. You were born, not from some vague ‘birthing person’ or ‘parent 1,’ but from a woman—your mother. And you entered this world as human beings, endowed with rights.”
“I congratulate you on making it,” she continued, “because not everyone does. We live in a system that snuffs out over 100,000 lives annually, stripping them of their most basic right—the right to exist. This is a two-tier society: the born on one side, the unborn on the other, abandoned to a culture of death.”
Behrendt’s speech came during a debate over a radical “self-determined pregnancy” bill, pushed through by the Socialist SPD and Greens. The measure, which passed at the state level, seeks to expand abortion access, including legalizing it nationwide in the first twelve weeks of pregnancy. Behrendt, the AfD’s family policy spokesperson in Lower Saxony, didn’t mince words: “You, SPD and Greens, have decided it’s acceptable to kill babies—not because it’s legally demanded, but because you’ve arrogantly claimed the power to do so.”
Rejecting the leftist mantra of “my body, my choice,” she countered, “The freedom of the born stops where the freedom of the unborn begins. There’s no difference in worth between a child in the womb and one outside it—they’re both human.” She dismantled the dehumanizing rhetoric of the left, which often reduces unborn children to “clumps of cells.” “If that’s the standard, then you’re all just clumps of cells in suits,” she quipped. “Every one of us starts as two cells—one from a mother, one from a father—and grows into 37 trillion. Life is a continuum, not a disposable inconvenience.”
The bill’s provisions, she warned, would coerce doctors—even family practitioners—into performing abortions, all to accommodate a society that refuses to take responsibility for its actions. “Why? Because not every child is planned? Let’s be honest: children come from sex, and no contraception is foolproof. If you don’t want a child, abstain. It’s that simple. Eating cake can make you fat; sex can make a baby. The unborn shouldn’t pay the price for your choices.”
Behrendt highlighted a damning statistic: of the 100,000+ abortions in Germany each year, only 35 are due to rape or incest—what she called “criminological indications.” The vast majority, she implied, are matters of convenience. “We don’t need more abortions,” she insisted. “We need more support for parents, more respect for life, so an unplanned baby isn’t treated as an unwanted burden. Your proposal is a disgrace, and you should be ashamed.”
Her speech ignited a firestorm online, with conservatives hailing it as a rare, courageous defense of the unborn in a nation where pro-life voices are often silenced. One supporter called it “the most fearless pro-life stand ever taken in a German parliament.” Behrendt’s words are a rallying cry against a progressive agenda that sacrifices the innocent on the altar of personal freedom.