Source The German Eye
It is a very intimate problem that thousands in Germany suffer from: Men and women who want nothing more than to have a child of their own – but cannot fulfill their heart’s desire. There are 15,000 women in Germany alone who cannot become pregnant because they are infertile. Many men are also unable to conceive. According to the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, around a quarter of women and men between the ages of 20 and 50 have no offspring.
FDP member of parliament Katrin Helling-Plahr wants to help these people and “make surrogacy out of charity possible in Germany as well,” according to a paper published by the FDP parliamentary group. “If those affected cannot have a child in any other way, if they can be helped by surrogacy and the surrogate mother wants to help in a self-determined way purely out of charity, the state has no right to prevent this happiness.”
