{"id":200232,"date":"2023-06-23T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-23T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/?p=200232"},"modified":"2023-06-22T10:54:23","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T14:54:23","slug":"majority-of-germans-in-favor-of-keeping-abortion-criminalized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifamnews.com\/en\/majority-of-germans-in-favor-of-keeping-abortion-criminalized","title":{"rendered":"Majority of Germans against further liberalization of abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A majority of Germans reject the approach favored by the Greens and the Left Party which implies removing prenatal abortion from the criminal code. This is the result of a representative survey by the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sQvFjs8PMzg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Wahlen Research Group<\/a><\/em> for the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.die-tagespost.de\/politik\/mehrheit-der-deutschen-will-abtreibung-soll-straftat-bleiben-art-238996\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ZDF magazine Frontal<\/a><\/em> magazine. According to the survey, 54% of respondents believe that Section 218 should remain in the penal code, while another 3% advocate tightening it. Only 36% of respondents favored abolishing the criminal law provision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The survey shows differences in age and party preferences. Young women are more in favor of abolishing Paragraph 218, as is being considered by the so-called traffic light coalition. However, with increasing age, resistance to abolition is also growing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A clear majority of Christian Democratic Union and Christian Social Union voters (67%) supported the retention of Section 218 of the German Penal Code. Among voters for the Alternative for Germany (AfD) (57%), the Free Democratic Party (FDP) (55%), and even the Social Democratic Party (52%), which holds the chancellorship, more than half favor keeping the legislation unchanged. Only among voters for Alliance 90\/The Greens (46%) and the Left Party (31%) the poll shows that less than half and less than one-third, respectively, are in favor of retaining the criminal law provision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While public opinion on the issue remains divided, the survey shows that a significant proportion of Germans, including a majority of voters from several major parties, oppose the decriminalization of abortion and support the retention of Section 218 in the Penal Code.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a poll, the majority of Germans, especially Union voters, are against abolishing Section 218 of the German Penal Code, which regulates abortion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":198590,"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":"According to a poll, the majority of Germans, especially Union voters, are against abolishing Section 218 of the German Penal Code, which regulates abortion.","format":"standard","video":"","gallery":"","source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"2","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar-narrow","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"float","share_float_style":"share-normal","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","show_post_reading_time":"1","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"0","show_popup_post":"0","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"1","show_post_related":"0","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-715","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-715"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"808","hide":""},"jnews_social_meta":{"fb_title":"","fb_description":"","fb_image":"","twitter_title":"","twitter_description":"","twitter_image":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[805,808],"tags":[475,2940,909,10995],"class_list":["post-200232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-foreground","category-life","tag-abortion","tag-germany","tag-pro-life-2","tag-survey"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.9 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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