By Christian Newswire Staff
The Constitution, signed by Hungarian President Pal Schmitt late last month, states in Article 2 that “The life of the fetus will be protected from conception.” It also defines marriage as the union of a man and a woman.
World Congress of Families Managing Director Larry Jacobs called Hungary’s new Constitution “…a triumph for human rights and the family. This Constitution reflects the Judeo-Christian principles on which Western civilization is based, including the sanctity of life and the natural family.”
The WCF Managing Director further observed that Hungary’s new Constitution is in keeping with the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948), which dictates that “the family in the fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State” and gives men and women “the right to marry and found a family.”
With a fertility rate of only 1.4 (average number of children per woman) — and a rate of 2.1 needed just to replace current population — it’s clearly in Hungary’s national interest to protect the lives of all of its citizens, including unborn children. Every abortion brings Hungary that much closer to national extinction.
Jacobs urged the people of Hungary to “stand firm in their commitment to life and the family, in what’s sure to be a relentless onslaught from the anti-family left — European Union and United Nations bureaucrats, as well as the organized pro-abortion and homosexual ‘rights’ movements.” Jacobs told the Hungarian people, “Justice, history and natural law are on your side.”
World Congress of Families is sponsoring the first international conference to deal with the worldwide decline in birthrates, the “Moscow Demographic Summit: Family and the Future of Humankind,” June 29-30, 2011.
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