Nora Szász

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Nora Szász (2019)

Nora Maria Szász (born 1962 ) is a German gynecologist. The gynecologist , practicing in Kassel , gained national fame because she was charged with advertising for the termination of pregnancy ( Section 219a of the Criminal Code ).

Live and act

Nora Szász grew up with four siblings in a small town in North Hesse. Her father comes from Hungary , from where he fled in the course of the Hungarian uprising in 1956. Her mother is a Sudeten German who worked as a nurse . Szász describes her childhood and youth as carefree, open to discussion, interested in politics and with great attention to children's education, which was strongly encouraged by their parents.

As a 16-year-old Szász was one of the founding members of the Democratic Women's Initiative in Kassel. After graduating from high school, she completed a midwifery training and was a co-founder of today's Federal Council of Midwives-to-be (WeHe) and the Berlin-Charlottenburg birthing center. From 1983 she worked as a freelance midwife for several years .

From 1984 to 1992 Szász studied human medicine at the Free University of Berlin . In 1985 she founded the women's group medicine. In addition, she stood up against sexual assault by a professor of gynecology, which brought her a defamation suit, which ended in 1986 in an acquittal for Nora Szász before the Moabit district court. Between 1994 and 2005 she completed her training as a specialist in gynecology and obstetrics in Berlin and Kassel. From 2005, Szász worked for a medical care center in Kassel for five years.

Since 2012 she has been practicing in a group practice with Natascha Nicklaus as a resident doctor.

Legal dispute

Because of the information on medical and surgical abortions given on the practice's website, Szász and her colleague were reported by two anti-abortion opponents, Yannic Hendricks and Klaus Günter Annen, in the summer of 2017 for advertising the abortion .

The proceedings against the doctors have not yet been concluded. In January 2019 it was temporarily suspended because of the intention to reform the paragraph by the German Bundestag. Szász herself was summoned as an expert before the legal committee of the Bundestag. The reform of Section 219a came into force in March 2019. Szász and her colleague are waiting for the proceedings to be terminated, but they are also determined to take advantage of all legal remedies.

Szász criticized the reform of § 219a as a “cheat package” and tightened the criminal law.

Awards

Award ceremony of the Anne Klein Women's Prize (2019)

2019 Anne Klein Women's Prize from the Heinrich Böll Foundation , together with doctors Natascha Nicklaus and Kristina Hänel .

Volunteering

Nora Szász is involved in the Women's Health in Medicine, Psychotherapy and Society (AKF) working group, in health education on female genital cutting and in the humanitarian consultation for people who are not insured in Kassel.

Publications

Nora Szász is co-author of the first textbook on Midwifery Studies (De Gruyter, 1995) and the Guide to Midwifery Health Knowledge (Gräfe and Unzer, 2012).

Web links

Commons : Nora Szász  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://asf-cw.de/2018/11/08/haben-aenderung-des-%C2%A7-219a-stgb
  2. ↑ a b c d In conversation: Gynecologist Nora Szász - Seeing the whole woman in her changes. Deutschlandfunk Kultur, June 7, 2019, accessed on July 11, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b Nora Szász. Heinrich Böll Foundation, November 26, 2018, accessed on July 11, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Gynecologist on 219a agreement - "Then we'll probably end up in prison at some point". Deutschlandfunk, December 13, 2018, accessed on July 11, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Anne Klein Women's Prize 2019 to Kristina Hänel, Natascha Nicklaus and Nora Szász. Gunda Werner Institute, accessed on July 11, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Szász, Nora
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Szász, Nora Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German gynecologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1962