Surrogacy: Here the private matter is a political issue

Actually, the private lives of politicians should not be commented on. Relationships, children or separations are fundamentally none of the public’s business. However, things look different when the private becomes a political issue. If it raises fundamental ethical questions.

This is what happened with Jens Spahnleader of the Union parliamentary group in the Bundestag and former health minister. On Wednesday Spahn spoke about the Picturenewspaper announced that he and his husband had become parents. The child was born via a surrogate mother in the USA; Spahn’s husband is the biological father.