{"id":137794,"date":"2022-04-15T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-15T15:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/?p=137794"},"modified":"2022-04-15T06:41:18","modified_gmt":"2022-04-15T10:41:18","slug":"abortions-at-an-all-time-low-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en\/abortions-at-an-all-time-low-in-germany","title":{"rendered":"Abortions at an all-time low in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Good news from Germany, where in 2021 the number of aborted children dropped to an all-time low: about 4,000 fewer than in the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As assessed by the <a href=\"https:\/\/evangelicalfocus.com\/europe\/16330\/abortions-in-germany-sink-to-record-low-in-2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Evangelical Focus Europe<\/a>, the reasons for the decline are still unclear: however, it is believed that the efforts of German pro-lifers to support expectant mothers in need and the awareness campaign to promote the concept of human dignity of unborn children greatly contributed to such outcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Germany&#8217;s official statistics institute <a href=\"https:\/\/www.destatis.de\/EN\/Press\/2022\/04\/PE22_154_233.html;jsessionid=A7225D6D5BBA45F7691C47FC750FCB69.live741\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Destatis<\/a> reports that 94,596 children were aborted in 2021, a decrease of 5.4% compared to about 99,000 in 2020. Only about 4% of abortions in 2021 were performed as a result of rape or because of danger to the life or health of the mother.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In short, the 2021 figures represent a real low for Germany. According to Evangelical Focus, at the turn of the century, about 130,000 babies a year were aborted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-traffic-light-coalition-doesn-t-like-children\"><strong>The &#8220;traffic light coalition&#8221; doesn&#8217;t like children<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Abortion in Germany is legal until week 12 of the child&#8217;s life in the womb as well as at any point during pregnancy if there are risks to the physical or emotional health of the mother. Before a woman can undergo an abortion, she is required to go for an interview, followed by a three-day waiting period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Advertising for abortion is prohibited, but the government led by Chancellor Olaf Scholz would like to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/germany-one-step-closer-scrapping-nazi-era-abortion-law-2022-01-17\/?taid=61e590332bf5250001520943&amp;utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&amp;utm_medium=trueAnthem&amp;utm_source=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">repeal this ban<\/a>. Because the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/healthcare-pharmaceuticals\/germanys-new-government-nix-nazi-era-abortion-law-2021-11-24\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">political agreement<\/a> of the red-yellow-green coalition (the so-called &#8220;traffic light coalition&#8221;) signed in November actually states that killing unborn children would become &#8220;part of reliable health care.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Strong criticism of this orientation is now coming from the pro-life and religious circles. During an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kath.net\/news\/77849\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">interview in March, Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig M\u00fcller<\/a>, Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, once again strongly condemned abortion, explaining that the killing of unborn children is &#8220;the most heinous of crimes against life&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a 5.4% drop from the previous year, however Scholz&#8217;s government wants to remove the ban on advertising abortion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":137735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"mc4wp_mailchimp_campaign":[],"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":"It's a 5.4% drop from the previous year, however Scholz's government wants to remove the ban on advertising abortion.","format":"standard","video":"","gallery":"","source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":""},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"808"},"jnews_social_meta":{"fb_title":"","fb_description":"","fb_image":"","twitter_title":"","twitter_description":"","twitter_image":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[804,805,808],"tags":[7020,2940,909,9863],"class_list":["post-137794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-foreground","category-life","tag-abortion-2","tag-germany","tag-pro-life-2","tag-right-to-life"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.9 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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