The commission, set up by Chancellor Olaf Scholz's government, recommended making abortion legal and unpunishable in the first trimester, deeming the current situation as 'untenable'.
There is a recommendation to consider allowing abortion up to 22 weeks, with the acknowledgment that in later stages of pregnancy, it should remain illegal but not necessarily punishable.
The Centre for Reproductive Rights NGO sees the recommendations as a chance to modernize German abortion laws, which currently stigmatize and demean women.
Reforming Germany's abortion law is a key agenda for the current government, with previous actions such as abolishing a Nazi-era law limiting abortion information.
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