German politician receiving criticism for surrogacy

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HenriettaHippopotamus · 17/07/2026 18:17

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq56ed827peo

He said in 2015 he wrote that "as a gay man and a Christian I find it personally very hard to warm to the idea of a rented womb".

So he knows it’s wrong but doesn’t care.

Jens Spahn (R) in glasses, a dark jacket and white shirt and red tie beside his husband Daniel Funke who has as beard and a navy jacket with a blue shirt

German politician faces calls to resign over child born with US surrogate

Surrogacy is banned in Germany, a policy firmly backed by Jens Spahn's Christian Democrat party, and several years ago by Spahn, too.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq56ed827peo

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GrumpyPanda · 24/07/2026 09:32

The Guardian has caught up to the whole sorry saga:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/24/for-outraged-germans-the-jens-spahn-scandal-is-about-more-than-his-surrogate-baby

For outraged Germans, the Jens Spahn scandal is about more than his surrogate baby

The powerful politician was no stranger to controversy, but brazenly defying a ban on surrogacy that he had long defended, was the last straw, says Berlin-based journalist Tania Roettger

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/24/for-outraged-germans-the-jens-spahn-scandal-is-about-more-than-his-surrogate-baby

TheywontletmehavethenameIwant · 18/07/2026 20:37

GrumpyPanda · 18/07/2026 19:07

Aaaaaand he's gone.

Great, he sounds like he's no loss.

GrumpyPanda · 18/07/2026 19:07

Aaaaaand he's gone.

Brefugee · 18/07/2026 10:34

gosh yes, I'd forgotten that.
He is odious, as is Merz. As are pretty much all the CDU/CSU and AfD

GrumpyPanda · 17/07/2026 21:53

Brefugee · 17/07/2026 21:24

there are ever louder calls for his resignation. Turns out his surrogate (his partner's sperm and he has not yet adoped the child) was already pregnant when they had the vote banning surrogacy (not out of care for women, but part of a bill about embryos iirc.)

It will be ironic if this is what brings him down, and not his blatant corruption during covid sourcing of PPE.

Covid sourcing is the least of it. He made private investments in fintech companies while in post as Staatssekretär at the Ministry of Finance. Then when confronted about it, didn't see anything wrong with it.

Rotten through and through, that man.

Brefugee · 17/07/2026 21:24

It will be ironic if this is what brings him down, and not his blatant corruption during covid sourcing of PPE.

TheywontletmehavethenameIwant · 17/07/2026 20:15

He knew it was against the law and he didn't care. What's the point of politicians, here or abroad. 😤

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