\u201cSome women just don\u2019t want children. So what? That is self-determination!\u201d With this slogan begins a nauseating video of the television network \u201cfunk\u201d offered by the German public television companies ARD and ZDF, whose opinion leaders plead for sterilization on request. Best scenario for them? It should be financed by public health insurance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWhat I can no longer hear: women who do not want children are not normal women.\u201d So speaks one convinced young lady in the video, directly to the viewer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWhat if you got pregnant unintentionally? My answer was, as always, that I would abort immediately, which is why I had myself sterilized over half a year ago,\u201d explains another of the women interviewed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sterilization on request, ideally financed by the health insurance: that is the tenor of the video, which tries to smear all the \u201ccounter-arguments\u201d read out by the interviewees: \u201cWhat if I regret it at some point? This is my regret; I have to deal with it alone. I have to live with it and nobody else.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The \u201cfunk\u201d series is financed by compulsory broadcasting contributions. According to its own statements, the network has an annual budget of around 45 million euros, a third coming from ZDF and the other two thirds from ARD, the two primary public media channels of Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The established image is clear: young, strong, self-confident women who have the courage to speak of their own accord and are incensed about certain \u201cgrievances\u201d women have against society. The video appears to be primarily a reaction to the \u201chigh\u201d cost of sterilization, and a response to the the request of Germany\u2019s Health Minister Jens Spahn to increase contributions from childless people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe cost of sterilization for a woman is about 600-1000 \u20ac. Health insurance only pays the costs if there are strict medical indications for the procedure. [\u2026] I made the decision myself to have myself sterilized because it somehow fits financially. [\u2026] It would be ideal, of course, if contraception is completely covered by the health insurance company,\u201d runs some of the dialogue in the video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cJen Spahn can imagine\nincreasing nursing care insurance for childless people. That is absolutely\nridiculous!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Does this video speak of the \u201csuppressed\u201d needs of most of the population? The negative reaction on YouTube suggest the opposite. The only 178 likes are trumped by almost 1000 dislikes, and almost all comments criticize the content of the video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nevertheless, the\npublic broadcasters did not shy away from such anti-family propaganda –\nfinanced by the well-behaved taxpayer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In its smug conclusion, the video trumpets: \u201cDesired childlessness among women is one of the last major taboos.\u201d Is it really? Are childless women looked at condescendingly in the shop or on the street? Or, rather, is it not the case that really families with three, four, or five children are more often the objects of such condescension? This is the appalling blindness to reality that the “role models” in this video present, with taxpayer-funded airtime!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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