Il tribunale tedesco sostiene il divieto di aborti in ospedale gestito cattolico

**Two key bits of information:**

a) The ban doesn’t only include abortions within the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, but also those in advanced pregnancy that have solid medical indications aside from just not ‘wanting’ the child.

b) The ban also covers the physician’s private practice which he runs aside from his job as head of department as the hospital – the Catholic leadership of the hospital is basically trying to also tell him what to do with his own business.

In the past when labour law disputes between church run organisations and employees have gone to court for some reason lower courts have almost always sided with the church on its discriminatory practices, but when the cases escalated up the ladder to higher courts this has frequently been overturned, most prominently by the European Court of Justice which has almost universally sided with employees against the church’s special treatment in German labour law.

I hope the man has the tenacity to fight this all the way to the ECJ and establish another precedent that chips away at the church’s completely unacceptable preferential treatment in German law.

Catholic-run hospitals (where medical practice is influenced by religion) shouldn’t even be a thing.