Perhaps not coincidentally, when a spokesperson for German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats was asked to comment on the Ethics Council’s recommendation, she also said something completely beside the point, referring to the need to protect children. The report, however, made no recommendations about incest involving children, and some of those caught by the criminal law did not even know each other as children.
也许并非巧合的是，当德国总理默克尔所在基督教民主党一名发言人被要求对伦理委员会的建议发表意见时，她也做出了一些完全跑题的评论，比方说需要为儿童提供保护。但报告并未对涉及子女的乱伦行为给出任何建议，而刑法判决的某些乱伦情侣童年时根本不认识对方。