Amnesty International, for its part, spoke of a “worrying setback”.
The pregnant that they want to move on to abortion they should first be informed “in a clear way” by their obstetrician about the “vital functions of the fetus,” according to an amendment to the law published late Monday in the Hungarian Government Gazette.
The far-right opposition party Mi Hazank, which called for this change, expressed its satisfaction with a statement claiming that “moms will now hear the fetus’s heartbeat”, although the text of the law does not explicitly mention anything such.
THE amendment changes the conditions necessary for an abortion in this EU member state, where termination of pregnancy has been legal since the 1950s – in most cases, up to the 12th week of pregnancy.
The decree, signed by Interior Minister Sándor Pinter, will come into effect on Thursday and marks a tightening of the rules.
“For at least a few seconds, the unborn child will be able to hear the mother, before the abortion takes place,” MP Dora Duro also claimed in a Facebook post. The law, revised in 1992, “is not set in stone,” he continued, thanking pro-life organizations for their support. “We are making history!”, he added.
THE international Amnesty for her part she spoke of “alarming setback».
The decision, made “without any consultation”, will make access to abortion more difficult and “cause even more trauma to women who are already facing a difficult situation”, said the NGO’s spokesman, Aron Demeter.
In the new Constitution of Ukraine, which came into force in 2012, it is stated that the country defends “the life of the fetus from its conception”. A few months earlier, Viktor Orbán’s government funded an anti-abortion campaign using European funds, drawing the ire of the European Commission.
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