Lawmakers in Germany have voted today, Friday, June 24, to repeal a controversial abortion law that had been in place since 1933. Under the terms of this legislation, passed in the Nazi era, doctors – and medical workers in general – were banned from providing information about abortions to potential patients. The Bundestag voted by a majority decision to bring an end to this almost 90-year-old law. Many medical workers had previously been fined, or even imprisoned, after falling foul of this law, when deemed to have offered information regarding abortions. Kristina Hanel, a well-known doctor, had recently been hit...