Hungarian women will be forced to listen to 'foetal heartbeat' before they can have an abortion
Hungarian women seeking abortion will be forced to listen to a 'foetal heartbeat' before going through with the procedure.
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Hungarian women seeking abortion will be forced to listen to a 'foetal heartbeat' before going through with the procedure.
Rights advocates have warned that the new statute will make it more difficult for women to access safe abortions. Far-right lawmakers hailed it as a "chance for life."
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary's right-wing government has issued a decree which will require doctors to present women requesting an abortion with fetal vital signs, an obligation that tightens the country's relatively liberal abortion rules.
All women seeking to terminate a pregnancy will have to listen to the fetus's heartbeat beforehand.
Hungary has tightened abortion rules with activists decrying that pregnant women will have to listen to the foetus' heart beat before having an abortion.