If you are considering or have decided to have an abortion/termination of pregnancy, German law requires that you must have counselling at least three days before the operation. After this, the abortion must take place within 12 weeks of conception.
We are there to support you while you are making your decision and provide you with medical, social and legal information on abortions. If you wish we can also provide you with information detailing your legal rights and support if you choose to go ahead with the pregnancy.
We can offer you guidance but at the end of the day you have to make the decision for or against an abortion by yourself.
You are welcome to bring along your partner or somebody else to your counselling session.
We are entitled to issue counselling certificates which are required for abortions. Counselling is free of charge and confidential as we are bound by a pledge of secrecy. Upon request we provide anonymous counselling. If required we can talk to you after an abortion.
Please note:
If you would like a male to accompany you to your session (for example your partner), please make an appointment at our advice centres in Brunsbüttel or Heide, as men are not allowed to enter our centre in Marne.
Are you pregnant – and no one can know about it?
Having to keep a pregnancy secret is a difficult situation and a big problem. Since 1 May 2014, there is a way out of this situation: the so-called “confidential birth”. It is a way for all women to protect their identity but at the same time giving birth to their children in a medically safe way.
For the procedure, the woman selects a pseudonym so that, other than her counsellor, no one knows her true identity – no government office, no health insurance company, no doctor. Only at the age of 16 years old, the child can get more information about his/her origins. But in special cases the biological mother can prevent this.
If you are in such an emergency situation or you know a woman who is in such an emergency situation, you can contact us. We counsel and inform about the procedure and we will support you until you give birth and possibly afterwards.
You can also contact us, if you just want information about the procedure and you do not know whether you will participate in the confidential birth program.
You can get more information and materials at www.geburt-vertraulich.de and at the free hotline “Pregnant women in emergency situations – anonymous & secure” („Schwangere in Not – anonym & sicher“) +49 800 40 40 020. On the website you can also receive anonymous counselling per chat or email.