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To: eleni121

[Abortion is illegal in Germany.
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I don't think so.
According to one website: "Allowed on demand in first trimester or later: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden"]

Please don't write "according to one website" as if that shows that a fellow FReeper is wrong.

I've created tons of websites. Anyone can write any falsehood on any website, and it happens a lot via ignorance (not fact checking).

Once you've decided that I know more than this unnamed website (but certainly not more than a collection of credible websites that you should also check)...please know that virtually every European country allows abortion in the first trimester except Poland, Germany and Ireland...where it may still be possible to obtain an abortion in the first trimester...just not "on demand."

Poland, Germany and Ireland have better systems than the shrill American feminist system.


186 posted on 01/26/2006 2:04:13 AM PST by GermanBusiness
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To: GermanBusiness

[Abortion is illegal in Germany.]

Plus, the fact remains that abortion is illegal in Germany. It is just not punished in the first trimester if the guilty woman fills out documents that she is mentally traumatized by the pregnancy and obtains counseling from a pro-life organization that agrees that she listened to them and then waited 3 days. This recognition that she has "no feminist right to do this" cuts abortion rates down to one of the lowest in the world: 7.5 per 1000 compared to the US rate of 22 per 1000.


187 posted on 01/26/2006 2:08:13 AM PST by GermanBusiness
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To: GermanBusiness

The source website is
http://www.germany-info.org/relaunch/info/facts/facts/questions_en/health/healthissues3.html

"After years of conflict on the issue of abortion, the German Bundestag passed legislation regulating the termination of pregnancy at the end of June 1995.. Under the terms of the new law, abortion is prohibited. However, a woman who has an abortion during the first trimester will not be prosecuted as long as she undergoes counseling that must seek to persuade her to carry the pregnancy to term. An abortion is fully legal if the pregnancy is the result of rape or if completing the pregnancy would endanger the woman's health. The doctor performing the abortion likewise remains free from prosecution."



203 posted on 01/26/2006 3:44:37 PM PST by eleni121 ('Thou hast conquered, O Galilean!' (Julian the Apostate))
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