FDP MP deletes controversial 219a video


DMember of the Bundestag Kristine Lütke (FDP) deleted a controversial video on Tuesday showing her dancing with four other members of her parliamentary group and wearing sunglasses through a hallway in the Bundestag. “We’re on our way to the vote so that we can finally kick Section 219a out of the Criminal Code,” says the nine-second clip, which is accompanied by the song “Short Dick Man”. Some MPs make a head-down motion with their hands in the video.

“The fact that information about abortions and supporting doctors will no longer be punishable in the future is a reason to be happy,” wrote the 39-year-old Lütke on Twitter. “However, the video posted on this sensitive occasion left room for misunderstandings. I have therefore deleted it and apologize!” Lütke has been a member of the Bundestag since last year and is her parliamentary group’s spokeswoman on addiction and drug policy.

Union politicians in particular had criticized the video. “No woman runs dancing and singing to an abortion,” wrote Dorothee Bär (CSU). The CDU politician Julia Klöckner wrote: “Are you serious, dance routines on this subject? There is also the issue of life safety. Celebrating the abolition of Par. 219 like a party, ignoring the fact that there are also conflicting goals … The life or abortion of an unborn child is nothing trivial.” CDU politician and member of the Bundestag Serap Güler was also outraged and described the video as “tasteless”. “Abortion is not a party!” she wrote.

Ria Schröder (FDP), also seen in the video, defended the video. “A paragraph in the penal code (!) that withholds factual information about abortions from women is tasteless,” wrote the 29-year-old politician on Twitter. Schröder has also been a member of the Bundestag since last year. Before that, she was the federal chairwoman of the Young Liberals, the youth organization of the FDP.

The government made up of SPD, Greens and FDP agreed in their coalition agreement last year to abolish the paragraph that bans advertising for abortions.



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