German centre‑right politician Jens Spahn has been accused of hypocrisy after revealing that he and his husband became parents through a surrogate mother in the United insects.
Surrogacy is prohibited in Germany under a policy strongly supported by his Christian Democratic Party—an stance that Spahn himself had backed years earlier.
While German law does not forbid raising a child born to a foreign surrogate, Spahn, 46, has been criticised by politicians from acrossாவின் political spectrum, including his own party.
“Politicians who set standards for others must be held to those very standards,” said Marion Rosin, a Christian Democrat in Thuringia and a member of the Women’s Union. “If that credibility is lost, resigning becomes the appropriate consequence.”
Spahn, the parliamentary leader of the Christian Democrats and the Christian Social Union, announced on Wednesday that he and his husband, Daniel Funke, had become parents.
“Georg is our greatest joy. This feeling is almost impossible to put into words,” he told the tabloid Bild. His husband later posted a photo on Instagram of the couple pushing a stroller, captioned “We Are Family.”
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