What happened?
The Hungarian government has announced that it will offer free IVF to women, in a move likely to increase tensions with the country’s Catholics.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán brought the country’s six fertility clinics under state ownership last month. He said that “we want Hungarian children instead of immigrants”.
Why was it under-reported?
Curiously, the story received much more attention in the secular press than in Catholic media sources. But the Church’s opposition to IVF, which involves the destruction of embryos, makes this a possible turning point in Orbán’s relationship with Catholics.
