Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf’s exit and his damage. The situation in the morning

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It was a week -long struggle – characterized by allegations, hostility and attempts to defend. A dispute that significantly added to the young black and red coalition. The government split the debate about Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf’s candidacy for the Federal Constitutional Court. Your failed choice pulled wide circles. Now the legal scientist has declared her retreat. The drops are far from being sucked with it.

The Union had denied its approval for the previously agreed election of Brosius-Gersdorf. She justified this with allegations of plagiarism and her attitude towards abortion and headscarf ban.

Despite the conflict, SPD parliamentary group leader Matthias Miersch sees a sustainable basis with the coalition partner Union. “I am convinced that, despite all the friction, we continue to share this attitude with our coalition partner in the substance,” Miersch wrote to the MPs of his parliamentary group on Thursday. Nevertheless, he criticized: “The fact that central parts of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group at the end not only trusts, but also in question the foundation on which democratic cooperation is possible at all.” He was certain: “Anyone who acts in this way may get their will at short notice, but in the long term they paralyze parliament and playfully trust in democracy.”

Federal Minister of Justice Stefanie Hubig calls for consequences. “It is important to me: We need more care and objectivity in our debates,” said the SPD politician of the German Press Agency. “Campaigns” should not lead to losing talented and qualified applicants – and above all applicants. “This is a development that we simply cannot afford and which is neither in the interest of our constitutional state nor the Federal Constitutional Court.”

And what’s next? First with mutual blame. Not only the SPD criticizes. The Union and its parliamentary group leader Jens Spahn also attack the green and left. They demand that the two remaining candidates-Federal Labor judge Günter Spinner and constitutional lawyer Ann-Katrin Kaufhold-receive a majority in the Bundestag and are not replaced. Spahn himself wants to “find a common solution with our coalition partner with the necessary calm and care”.

Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf’s withdrawal has harmed the government-even if it may have saved black and red from even greater damage. Trust within the coalition has been lost. After all, the Federal Constitutional Court was spared. But our debate culture suffered. The Brosius-Gersdorf case has shown that immunity against disinformation and populism disappears-even in the ranks of the Bundestag-and the focus on competence and qualifications increasingly gives way to ideological grave fights.

We stay with a topic that is often discussed in cultural and ideology struggle: abortions. In Germany, the debate is less bitter than in the United States, but here too the paragraph 218 causes a dispute. The Catholic Church plays a special role in this – and it is about it in a case that will be negotiated before the Hamm Labor Court.

At the center of the lawsuit is a Catholic clinic carrier in Lippstadt, who prohibits a long -time chief physician. The wearer granted this prohibition after a clinic merger in Lippstadt.

The plaintiff Joachim Volz had held medically necessary demolitions at the Lippstadt Evangelical Hospital and his team in individual cases. The new Catholic provider now banned this by instruction – even in the event of serious malformations of the fetus.

Since February, the “Lippstadt Clinic – Christian Hospital” has only been allowed to break off if the life of pregnant women is in danger. The ban also applies to the private practice of the gynecologist in Bielefeld.

Volz criticizes that the instruction disregarded the medical judgment, the will of the patient and the law. In the sensational case, a judgment is expected on the same day. Shortly before the negotiation, a demonstration entitled “Stop the Catholic abortion ban” is planned, in which the chief doctor also wants to take part.

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