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Kristina Hänel (archive picture): Demands the abolition of Paragraph 219a StGB
Photo: Boris Roessler / dpa
The judgment against Kristina Hänel for violating the controversial abortion paragraph 219a is final.
The higher regional court in Frankfurt am Main had rejected her appeal, the doctor said on Twitter.
She is now "unfortunately forced" to take the information on abortions from her website, said Hänel.
"Otherwise I would be financially ruined in the end," she wrote.
In December 2019, Hänel was sentenced to a fine of 2500 euros in an appeal process.
Hänel appealed on a point of law, thereby continuing to pursue its goal of going to the Federal Constitutional Court.
For this, her judgment must first become final, she said at the time.
Hänel had become known nationwide because she had started a debate about paragraph 219a of abortion in the penal code.
The paragraph was changed in March 2019.
The regulation prohibits, among other things, the public "offering" or "promoting" abortions "because of their financial advantage" or in a "grossly offensive manner".
In the reform, paragraph 219a received a new paragraph, according to which doctors can publicly inform that they are performing abortions.
For further information, however, you must refer to other places.
The Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt am Main apparently justified its decision with precisely this paragraph: "With the addition to Section 219a of the Criminal Code, the legislature also made the purely factual information about 'whether' and 'how' a criminal offense," quoted Hänel on Twitter.
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