(FILES) German Health Minister Jens Spahn (R) and his husband Daniel Funke arrive for the opening ceremony of the annual Bayreuth Festival featuring the music of German composer Richard Wagner on July 25, 2018 at the festival theatre (Richard-Wagner-Festspielhaus) in Bayreuth, southern Germany. A prominent politician from German Chancellor Friedrich Merz's centre-right CDU party has come under fire for having a child through a surrogate pregnancy in the US, despite surrogacy being illegal in Germany. Jens Spahn, the chairman of the CDU's faction in German parliament, recently became the parent along with his husband of a son born to a surrogate mother in the United States, according to German media reports. Spahn's party, however, has strictly opposed making surrogate pregnancies legal in Germany and taken broad stances against the practise. (Photo by Christof STACHE / AFP via Getty Images)