Friederike Wapler

Friederike Wapler is a legal scholar affiliated with Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, where she has focused her research on reproductive rights and medical law. In her role as the lead coordinator for a commission on reproductive self-determination and reproductive medicine under the current German government, she has been at the forefront of discussions regarding surrogacy in Germany. Wapler emphasizes the need for a rational debate on surrogacy, which she believes is often clouded by moral judgments, thus hindering productive discourse on the topic.