"A total of 8.25 million children were born and 6 million abortions took place in our country in the last 66 years," wrote labor expert Piroska Szalai on the Mandiner website.
The expert explained in his published article about the new heart rate regulation that the abortion law was not tightened, but it was necessary because, despite the improvement of recent years, the number of abortions in Hungary is still high.
"Last year, in addition to 93,000 live births, nearly 22,000 abortions were performed. This means that more than nine out of 1,000 women of reproductive age had an abortion last year," writes the expert.
Based on Eurostat data, Piroska Szalai also wrote that if we compare the number of abortions to live births, our country is still among the worst.
The expert reminded that as a result of the lifting of the abortion ban after the Ratkó era and the reprisals after the 1956 revolution, the number of registered abortions jumped to over one hundred thousand in 1957 and this continued to rise until 1969 (nearly 207 thousand abortions).
"Between 1959 and 1973, far more abortions were performed every year than the number of children born," writes Piroska Szalai.
The drastic decrease occurred in 1974 as a result of the fact that families received a home purchase discount after having children, thus they became motivated to have children. However, the analysis also states that this figure began to increase again until the regime change, so that in 1989 the number of abortions was 90.5 thousand.
According to Piroska Szalai, the number of abortions is now less than a quarter of the level at the time of the regime change, but the improvement is even more significant in the other former socialist countries, for example.
As the expert writes, with abortion we also decide on another person's life and "it would be good if the vanguards of extreme gender ideology finally understood that abortion is not a family planning method."
Source: vasarnap.hu
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