Here's why dozens of Hungarian women abort in Austria every week
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Abortions are legal in Hungary but humiliating treatment and waiting lists prompt women to terminate their pregnancy outside of the country, women and experts told Euronews. Their main destination is Austria. #EuropeDecoded
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    ** The first one is to inform them of other opportunities, including adoption, Réka Lebedi, a lawyer at Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (TASZ), a human rights NGO, explained.

    According to Lebedi, two problems arise with these consultations: “These family protection services are incredibly busy,” she said, which can lead to women running out of time.

    Christian Fiala, a gynaecologist at the Gynmed clinic in Vienna, says the facility administers abortions to ten to 15 Hungarian women every week.

    In Poland, the ruling conservative populist Law and Justice party (PiS)'s anti-abortion measures, implemented in early 2021, banned terminations even in cases of pregnancies with foetal defects.

    But the way they are implemented in practice is completely wrong,” Krisztina Les, a social worker at Patent, a Hungarian women’s rights organisation, told Euronews.

    Based in Budapest, Patent helps 35-40 Ukrainian women per month in accessing abortion and other sexual and reproductive health-related services, Les says.

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