Jens Spahn is a famous politician. He is in the party CDU. He and his husband Daniel Funke are parents now. A baby boy named Georg is born. A surrogate mother had the baby in the USA.
Surrogate motherhood is forbidden in Germany. This is in the Embryo Protection Law. A woman may not carry a child for others. It is also forbidden to find a surrogate mother. People get a punishment for this.
Spahn and his husband do not fear punishment. The law only punishes doctors or helpers. Parents and the mother get no punishment. Surrogate motherhood is legal in many parts of the USA. It costs over 140.000 Euro there.
Many people criticize Jens Spahn now. He was the health minister in the past. He was against surrogate motherhood in Germany then. He said he cares about the rights of women. Now he used a surrogate mother himself.
Spahn says his private life is separate from politics. The CDU does not want to change the law. They want to protect women from harm. About 31.000 couples of the same sex live with children in Germany today.
