A nurse is often the first person a woman encounters after learning she is pregnant, so Human Life International began working with the National Directorate of Hospitals two years ago to equip nurses with everything from prenatal vitamins to baby items that are handed out to expectant women.
The pro-life group says it passed the 4,000-nurse milestone earlier this year.
Hungarian native Dr. Imre Teglasy, who leads Human Life International Hungary, says infanticide is a terrible problem because many pregnant women there literally become murderers after giving birth. That cruelty reflects generations of people who lived under Nazi rule and later the cruelty of Communism, even after the democratic country now takes a pro-life stance.
Dr. Teglasy is himself an abortion survivor. His mother, pregnant with him in a Communist labor camp, tried repeatedly and unsuccessfully to abort her son.
So the pro-life leader led the effort to work alongside hospitals and their nurses to reach out to pregnancy women with a message of hope and with practical help.
“I wanted to prevent very, very high numbers of infanticide cases and, of course, the number of abortions,” he tells AFN. “We wanted to decrease both of them.”
