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The law dated back to § 219 and § 220 of the Reichsstrafgesetzbuch as at 1 June 1933, in early Nazi Germany. Both paragraphs resulted from a right-wing populist debate dating back to the Weimar Republic and the previous German Empire .
1854 – Texas passed an abortion law that made performing an abortion, except in the case of preserving the life of the mother, a criminal offense punishable by two to five years in prison. The law, found in Articles 4512.1 to 4512.4, had a proviso that anyone who provided medication or other means to assist in performing an abortion was an ...
In the Nazi regime's campaign against the Catholic Church, many Catholic priests were arrested on unfounded charges of homosexuality and acts of perversion. These "morality" prosecutions were suspended to show foreigners a good image during the 1936 Summer Olympics, but then resumed vigorously after Pope Pius XI had denounced Nazism in his 1937 ...
Soviet Union: After Stalin's death in 1953, the Soviet government revoked the 1936 Abortion law [207] and issued a new law on abortion. [208] Texas, United States: It became legal for women to serve on juries in Texas. [209] 1956. Malaysia: The 1956 Medicines Advertisement and Sale Act prohibited the publication of abortion advertisements. [210]
The legal situation created by the law in the GDR, which was the first time in German legal history that a time limit for abortion came into force, subsequently influenced the debate on the amendment of Section 218 of the German Criminal Code and the resulting legislative initiatives in the Federal Republic of Germany, as well as the revision ...
As explained in the reasoning of the 1975 decision, The Fifth Statute to Reform the Penal Law of June 18, 1974 determined the guidelines for punishability of abortion in a new way, in that it replaced the provisions of Sections 218 and 220 of the penal code, decriminalizing abortion within the first twelve weeks under certain circumstances. The ...
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A chart depicting the Nuremberg Laws that were enacted in 1935. From 1933 to 1945, the Nazi regime ruled Germany and, at times, controlled almost all of Europe. During this time, Nazi Germany shifted from the post-World War I society which characterized the Weimar Republic and introduced an ideology of "biological racism" into the country's legal and justicial systems. [1]