A truly family-friendly Hungary would not torture women
In accordance with good government custom, it appeared without social consultation and again in the middle of the night the Hungarian Gazettethe text includes the amendment (tightening) of the abortion law, with particular regard to this provision:
“The presented finding records that for the pregnant woman, the healthcare provider presented the factor indicating the functioning of the fetal vital functions in an identifiable manner.”
It is not 100% certain at the time of writing the article, but there is a good chance that it will mean that women will be obliged to listen to the heartbeat before the termination of pregnancy, this is also indicated by the fact that Dúró Dóra-Novák Elöd’s Mi Hazánk is already applauding to the decision – and this paints a very terrifying future for every Hungarian woman.
Listening to the heartbeat can be a lot of things, but basically it is nothing more than emotional blackmail, it will only bring about a change in a very minimal proportion of cases, on the contrary, it has a huge impact on women who are often in a terrible situation.
Did Sándor Pintér, who wrote the decree, think through the fact that with a few strokes of the pen, he would also force women pregnant with fetuses conceived as a result of rape to listen to all this? That victims of intimate partner violence, abused women, mothers of daughters, women living in difficult circumstances will from now on sit in gynecology clinics and listen to the heartbeat, for no other purpose than to raise awareness of guilt?
The government’s decision, let’s face it, is quite simply inhumane and cruel; moreover, it is a sign of how new the current legislators have nothing to do with reality. I’ll tell you something: a significant part of the fetuses have to be aborted anyway, because abortion is no fucking game. Abortion is a last-ditch solution when no other alternative works, it is not contraception, no one wakes up in the morning and clicks “well, I’m planning an abortion today”. Those affected must listen to their heart, because they must be heard, but in a forced situation, emotional blackmail will rarely change any decision, on the other hand, it will cause permanent, often lifelong wounds that cannot be healed. Is this what they want?
This is not what a family-friendly country looks like
The tightening of the abortion law has also been dressed up in the guise of government family friendliness, even though she will give birth by miscarriage in order to have more children, especially children who are welcome. Do you know what would help with this? Just to name a few: raising the family allowance, unemployment benefits, and similar subsidies, ensuring adequate education and health care throughout the country, or helping women reintegrate into the workplace after having children. Where are these measures?
You should finally realize that such that “pro-abortion” doesn’t exist, only pro-choice – the right to abortion is free from normal, emotional blackmail, like ensuring the right to choose. I want to live in a world and a country where women who cannot bear a pregnancy are not looked down upon. Where a mother with children and a childless woman can live side by side without either of them feeling less valuable because of their reproductive choices. Sándor Pintér, where having children is a private matter, or he doesn’t take care of it, and he doesn’t poke around in my womb.