Participants in the 'March for Life' rally stand with banners reading 'Every life is a gift', 'Life is life' and 'Euthanasia no thanks' in Munich, Germany, Saturday, April 13, 2024. An independent experts commission has recommended that abortion in Germany should no longer fall under the country’s penal code and be made legal during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. Currently, abortion is considered illegal in Germany, but not punishable if a woman undergoes mandatory counseling and a three-day wait period before she has the procedure. (Uwe Lein/dpa via AP)
From left: Claudia Wiesemann, Friederike Wapler, Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf and Liane Woerner, members of an expert commission tasked by the German government, present a report to decriminalize the current abortion law during a news conference in Berlin, Geramny, Monday, April 15, 2024. The independent experts commission recommended that abortion in Germany should no longer fall under the country's penal code but be made legal during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
From left: Claudia Wiesemann, Friederike Wapler, Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf and Liane Woerner, members of an expert commission tasked by the German government, present a report to decriminalize the current abortion law during a news conference in Berlin, Germany, Monday, April 15, 2024. The independent experts commission recommended that abortion in Germany should no longer fall under the country's penal code but be made legal during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
From left: Claudia Wiesemann, Friederike Wapler, Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf and Liane Woerner, members of an expert commission tasked by the German government, present a report to decriminalize the current abortion law during a news conference in Berlin, Germany, Monday, April 15, 2024. The independent experts commission recommended that abortion in Germany should no longer fall under the country's penal code but be made legal during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach, third from left, Justice Minister Marco Buschmann, center and Minister for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth, Lisa Paus, third from right, receive a report from Claudia Wiesemann, left, Liane Woerner,second from left, Friederike Wapler, second from right, and Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf, right, the members of the expert commission, tasked by the German government, to make a report about the current abortion law, in Berlin, Germany, Monday, April 15, 2024. The independent experts commission recommended that abortion in Germany should no longer fall under the country's penal code but be made legal during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
From left: German Minister for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth, Lisa Paus, Health Minister Karl Lauterbach and Justice Minister Marco Buschmann attend a news conference following the presentation of a report an expert commission, tasked by the German government, to decriminalise the current abortion law, in Berlin, Monday, April 15, 2024. The independent experts commission recommended that abortion in Germany should no longer fall under the country's penal code but be made legal during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)