As birth rates plummet and mass emigration soars in secular Ireland, one European country is continuing its success story when it comes to providing for families and for young people.
Hungary has managed to increase its birth rate by around one quarter in a decade, the same percentage decline that Ireland suffered under its ultra liberal government. As a perfect illustration of how anti family Ireland has become in comparison to pro family Hungary, just yesterday, Health Minister Stephen Donnelly announced free contraception would be expanded.
Hungary has also managed to halve its abortion rate, while Ireland at least doubled its rate.
Now, with constitutional preventions making an outright ban unlikely, Hungary has added an extra protection for the unborn.
Mothers will now be required to listen to the fetal heartbeat before their child is destroyed in abortion.
Anti human organisation Amnesty International, who have long supported culling the unborn, reacted with fury to the ruling. They called it a ‘very alarming step back’.
Other outraged groups included German media outlet DW, who even quoted a ‘report’ by controversial Anglo intelligence outfit Institute for Strategic Dialogue who claimed that the Hungarian government were ‘an international network of ultra-conservative organizations working to undermine and restrict sexual and reproductive health rights for women’.
What drives politicians to such anger is the fact that Viktor Orban and Fidesz have increased the standard of living for all of their citizens over the past decade and they have done so while staying true to pro family conservative policies. They have even managed to increase female employment at the same time as rapidly increasing birth rates.
Perhaps again in our lifetime, the governments of Western Europe will see that it is in their interest to support and foster families rather than destroy them.