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• Changes in reproductive policies in Hungary between 2010 and 2022

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  Alexandra Sipos

  Ivett Szalma

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  249

  This paper examines Hungarian reproductive policies, their changes and their restrictions in relation to pronatalist objectives between 2010 and 2022. The aim of the study is to present and interpret legislative changes in reproductive policies in the context of the pronatalist policies in Hungary. Reproductive policies include the regulation of assisted reproductive technologies, adoption, abortion, contraception, and sex education. In the development of these policies, we assume that a fundamentally pronatalist approach prevails, but we also identify various specific related constraints: heteronormativity, marriage-centredness, and the maintenance and reinforcement of traditional gender roles. We assume that Hungary’s reproductive policies have become increasingly selective since 2010 after the second Orbán government. These policies can be considered selective because they do not encourage all social groups to have children. These result in the exclusion of for example socially disadvantaged groups, single people and same-sex couples from reproduction due to legal constraints, a lack of financial support, access, and transfer of information. In conclusion, selective, heteronormative and marriage-based pronatalism is most identifiable in the adoption context, but abortion regulation, the legal environment for assisted reproductive technologies and sex education, in general, may reinforce pronatalist objectives.

• Representations of induced abortion in the Hungarian online media

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  Nagy Beata, Magda

  Huszar Katalin

  Kalo Zsuzsa

  Rigo Adrien

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  72

  This study focuses on how induced abortion is represented in the Hungarian online media in
  relation to the reception of the public debate on the new Polish abortion law. The study was aimed
  at revealing the major themes, the embedding conceptual network and the framing of induced
  abortion in the online press. Since the press is an essential influencing factor of public opinion
  due to its broad publicity, research should focus on the characteristics of the discourse in whose
  space the concerned individuals form their views and make decisions on abortion. A thematic
  analysis of relevant press releases revealed eight major themes that framed abortion in a specific
  manner: thematization of induced abortion as a social/demographic issue; legislative issues of;
  and attitudes towards, abortion; abortion as an act of (physical) self-determination; contents
  related to the abortion decision; to its causes and consequences; and depiction of women
  choosing abortion. Furthermore, the analysis revealed the themes most frequently associated
  with abortion and potentially related themes typically not associated with it.