{"id":96090,"date":"2016-06-14T11:14:22","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T15:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=96090"},"modified":"2016-06-14T11:14:22","modified_gmt":"2016-06-14T15:14:22","slug":"abortion-rate-drops-significantly-in-hungary-almost-23-in-5-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-rate-drops-significantly-in-hungary-almost-23-in-5-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Abortions drop significantly in Hungary, down almost 23% in 5 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Hungary\u2019s abortion rate <a href=\"http:\/\/hungarytoday.hu\/news\/hungary-sees-major-fall-number-abortions-since-2010\">has fallen<\/a> a dramatic 22.9% from 2010 to 2015, deputy state secretary for family and demographic policy T\u00fcnde F\u0171r\u00e9sz said Monday. The rate, however,\u00a0remains relatively high among European nations.<\/p>\n<p>There remains one abortion for every three live births, she told the daily Magyar H\u00edrlap newspaper, higher than the overall European average of one for every five. She noted that Eastern European abortion rates tend to be higher due to their heritage under Communism.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Such countries are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/badcatholic\/2012\/11\/does-contraception-reduce-the-abortion-rate.html\">considered<\/a> to have \u201cabortion cultures,\u201d meaning elective abortions were legalized earlier than in Western Europe, before the legalization of contraception, leading to abortion\u2019s use primarily as a family planning method and a lack of major moral or ideological opposition to abortion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abortionprocedures.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88619 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.liveactionnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/levatino-ad-LAN.jpg\" alt=\"levatino-ad-LAN\" width=\"306\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/levatino-ad-LAN.jpg 306w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/levatino-ad-LAN-300x221.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 306px) 100vw, 306px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Preborn lives are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifenews.com\/2016\/06\/13\/abortions-in-hungary-fall-22-as-more-babies-saved-from-abortion-down-4-1-in-2016\/\">recognized<\/a> in Hungary\u2019s Constitution, though elective abortions remain legal for up to 12\u00a0weeks. F\u0171r\u00e9sz said the government had no further plans to restrict abortion at the moment, but suggested abortions could be reduced through forms of state support, such as religious education and ethics classes.<\/p>\n<p>In the United States, evidence suggests that contraception is ubiquitous enough that <a href=\"\/news\/debunking-the-atlantics-flawed-case-for-school-contraception-distribution\/\">further government dissemination of it would be ineffective<\/a>, while abstinence-based education <a href=\"\/news\/abstinence-hating-bloggers-double-down-on-exploiting-elizabeth-smart\/\">shows great potential<\/a> for reducing abortion rates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hungary\u2019s abortion rate has fallen a dramatic 22.9% from 2010 to 2015, deputy state secretary for family and demographic policy T\u00fcnde F\u0171r\u00e9sz said Monday. The rate, however,\u00a0remains relatively high among European nations. There remains one abortion for every three live births, she told the daily Magyar H\u00edrlap newspaper, higher than the overall European average of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":96097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[3473],"tags":[19,3940,5884,9106,1274,3712,1604,9107],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Abortion rate drops significantly in Hungary, almost 23% in 5 years<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Hungary\u2019s abortion rate has fallen a dramatic 22.9% from 2010 to 2015, deputy state secretary for family and demographic policy T\u00fcnde F\u0171r\u00e9sz said Monday.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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