Union faction wants to punish surrogacy abroad

For the Union parties, the Spahn affair is not over. On the contrary: Despite the summer break, there is an active discussion internally about what credibility can and must mean in the question of surrogacy.

The former CDU member of the Bundestag Bettina Wiesmann received thanks and encouragement not only from many women in the Union for her recent article in the F.A.Z., in which she focused on the consequences of such a development for the child - and called for a compassionate society.

The Union parliamentary group's family and women's policy spokeswoman, Anne König, is now taking this path one step further. She wants to criminalize not only surrogacy itself, but also its use abroad.

This is consistent, because what good is a ban that can be circumvented so easily? And it's compassionate, because you shouldn't be able to order a child like a commodity. What if you don’t like the “goods”? Or, as König asks, if the ordering parents separate or die during the pregnancy? Who “owns” the child then?

And what if, despite all the contracts, the carrying mother develops a relationship with the creature in her womb? Or vice versa, if she gets serious psychological problems because of the foreign body in her sold body?