GERMANY – A German court fined two gynecologists of €2,000 (£1,780) each for advertising how they carry out abortions in their Berlin clinic.
Earlier this year the German government lifted a Nazi-era blanket ban on ads for abortion services.
In January, after months of debate, the Christian Democrat-led coalition government amended an article of law, dating back to 1933, which banned abortion ads in order to make pregnancy terminations different from other medical procedures.
The German fine came as new official figures in the United Kingdom showed a record number of 200,608 abortions were carried out in England and Wales last year. (BBC)
