Jens Spahn had criticised ‘rented wombs’ and his party is strongly opposed to surrogacy, which is banned in Germany A senior German politician and key ally of chancellor Friedrich Merz has resigned as chair of the Christian Democrat (CDU) party after he and his husband used a surrogate mother to ...
Source: [Guardian World](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/18/germany-cdu-party-chair-resigns-surrogacy-jens-spahn)