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  • Title: [Principles of the current legal regulations on pregnancy interruption. Results of the decision of the Federal constitutional court of 25 February, 1975].
    Author: Brenner G.
    Journal: Dtsch Krankenpflegez; 1976 Dec; 29(12):671-6. PubMed ID: 1050226.
    Abstract:
    The provisions of the new West German legal code governing responsibility for abortions, as laid out on 25 February 1976, are examined. The court concluded that the protection of nascence should be a penally assured protection. The arguments regarding life rights and the requirements for such a penally reinforced code are reviewed. Variations of the nature of the penalty were encountered in regard to the concept of abortion and the indications for this operation. The latter includes the social medical indications, eugenic considerations, ethical conditions (criminal or humanitarian), and social or socioeconomic implications. The role of pregnancy counseling and physicians determinations are provided for in the codes. Refusal of assistance in the abortion is examined on the part of the physicians and medical personnel, of the legal authority of the clinic, and of the chief physicians of a clinic. The base of responsibility for acceptance or refusal of abortion is dealt with by this code.
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