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Safe abortion day: women’s body is not a state -owned
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It is safe abortion day, The international day of safe abortion. But for Markus Söder and parts of German politics, women are only one thing: ongoing childbearing machines.
It is in 2025. And while we women are still fighting for our right to self -determination on such days as the Safe ABORTION DAY, you, Mr. Söder, reduce us women only to gender: “Without a car, mechanical engineering and chemistry, Germany is a lady without abdomen.”
After all, they have now suddenly succeeded – of course not without knocking themselves on the shoulder. Because immediately afterwards they praised Bavaria as “pretty cool”because the Free State “Everything for equality” do. This is exactly where the problem lies: If you think a phrase and a little self -praise could alleviate misogynistic pictures, shows how deep this thinking is sitting. Her saying is not a slip, he makes you visible what you and her conservative colleagues in the CDU and CSU think for decades: Women’s bodies are not interested in – until a fertilized egg cell lies in it.
The woman herself has no value in politics
There would be enough construction sites that would earn your attention. Here are two examples :. , It is around 15 percent for men of the same age group.
The Union is hardly interested in these problems. The violent aid law was finally adopted this year. Affected women and their children now have legal rights to protective places and advice. Only: The Convention of the Council of Europe to combat violence against women (Istanbul Convention) came into force in Germany in 2018. Germany remains far behind the specifications :.
Let’s talk about a successful CSU project, Mr. Söder: your beloved mother’s pension. But now you can really knock yourself on the shoulder, right? On average, woman gets almost 107 euros a month here – three pension points. Does this almost compensate for the performance that mothers perform in children’s education and household? I do not think so.
Above all, however, the mother’s pension obscures a much bigger problem: the difference in earnings between women and men. Because despite the mother’s pension, pension rights differ from men and women ,. Why? Because women are punished, among other things, that they work part -time more often to take care of the family free of charge after work. And that is also the reason why they are less promoted, their career stagnates and accordingly their income.
But of course: “Mother’s pension” Most well as a keyword and is suitable as advertising for women who are supposed to give birth to children. But woe, women do not want children self -determined and even consider an abortion – on this topic they even proceed against their own church.
Women’s bodies are considered state property
Threatening, Mr. Söder, reminded the churches at the beginning of this year that they should be more committed to paragraph 218 and life protection. After all, they should “Don’t forget who is still at the side of the church institution – not that at some point you will suddenly be alone”.
It is therefore not surprising that the supply situation for abortions in Bavaria is the worst in Germany. The current one shows almost 20 percent of people in the Free State in a region in which they have to drive more than 40 car minutes to the next facility. As much as you and the Union hold on to Paragraph 218, this is probably not far enough for you.
Paragraph 218
In Germany, an abortion is fundamentally a crime according to the Criminal Code – and only remains unpunished under certain circumstances: if it is carried out within the first twelve weeks of pregnancy and the woman has previously received mandatory advice. A demolition is also not punishable if it is necessary for medical reasons or after rape. It was only in February that a legislative project that was supposed to legalize abortions in the first twelve weeks failed due to the resistance of the Union and FDP.
75 percent of the doctors surveyed are in favor of deleting abortions from the Criminal Code. 60 percent of the respondents even demand that public hospitals are obliged to carry out abortions. But it seems to me that they want women to drive across the country, that we should feel guilty.
The abortion law is purest violence
“Do you know that you are committing a murder now?”a doctor asked a person concerned ,. She was an unwanted pregnant student, he used his power to exercise patriarchal violence. The demolition itself was unproblematic, but the feeling of delivery remained for a long time. In addition, there is the legally defined waiting period after the so -called pregnancy conflict advice: “You have to be three days pregnant, we determine what is right for you. This is paternalism, that is violence”according to the student in the star. Because if you are pregnant and do not want to give birth, it is guilty – by law. Because the female body is not considered self -determined, but as state property.
Of course, not all doctors are like that. Many fight with stigmatization by paragraph 218. Nevertheless: this experience is not an isolated case. In the field of medical care, three percent of the women surveyed reported that they have had an unwanted pregnancy of similar experiences.
I have no desire to have children – so far I was lucky
I have not had to have such experiences myself. No contraceptive method offers 100 % protection, but so far I was lucky. Nevertheless, I know the feeling of being reduced to my child ability. In the same breath, in which the suspicion diagnosis of endometriosis was given to me, the doctor pointed out that I should testify with my partner as soon as possible – you don’t know how quickly I can become sterile. I have no desire to have children. She could have known that if she had asked me beforehand.
Pain, scars and blood: This is how life with endometriosis feels

Breidenbach is suffering from endometriosis. With the photos, she wants to give those affected the opportunity to make the disease that often takes place in hidden, and thus promote more understanding. The photographer developed the image ideas in conversation with the women. The recordings reflect personal disease history, emotions or concrete experiences.
The picture shows Hannah (name changed). She only received the diagnosis shortly before the photo shoot. “She felt overwhelmed and lost by the disease”reports Breidenbach. “As if she could no longer feel the lightness of life.”
© Jasmin Breidenbach
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I would have liked a complete conversation about the possible effects of the disease, instead I was reduced to the impending loss of my function as a childbard. But don’t do anything, soon I’m just like German industry without cars and mechanical engineering: worthless.
Source: Stern

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