Judgment, 1 June 1988
Annual Review of Population Law 15: 33
1988
ISSN/ISBN: 0364-3417 PMID: 12289534 Document Number: 383606
The defendant was the boyfriend of a woman who erroneously believed herself to be pregnant and decided to have an abortion. He rented a car and drove her from the Federal Republic of Germany to the Netherlands where the abortion took place. Upon their return, he was charged with violation of the law for helping a woman to have an illegal abortion. The Court convicted him, concluding that he had encouraged his girlfriend to make the decision to have an abortion and had driven her to the Netherlands for that purpose. It ruled that the fact that she was not pregnant had no bearing on his commission of the crime. It sentenced him to pay a fine of DM 600.