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In March 1990, just a few months after the collapse of the East German state and the opening of the Berlin Wall, the conservative Christian Democratic Party (CDU) headed by Chancellor Helmut Kohl won a resounding electoral victory in East Germany. The government then declared its intention to unify the two German states by essentially annexing East Germany (GDR) and extending West German laws and institutions to a united German state (FRG).1 Abortion became a major subject of public debate when legislators and activists from West and East Germany demanded the maintenance of the liberal East German abortion law and the
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