Paragraph 219a (§ 219a, Paragraf Zweihundertneunzehn-a) was a German penal law in the Strafgesetzbuch that prohibited medical professionals from mentioning that they provide abortions.
The repeal was signed into law by the German federal president on 18 July 2022.
[3][4][5][6] The law dated back to § 219 and § 220 of the Reichsstrafgesetzbuch as at 1 June 1933, in early Nazi Germany.
Both paragraphs resulted from a right-wing populist debate dating back to the Weimar Republic and the previous German Empire.
[10] In another case in 2019, a German gynaecologist practice was fined 2,500 euros for stating on their website that they conducted "abortion, surgically or medically with Mifegyne".