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White House officials attend Hungarian Embassy event urging women to have more children
Source: Washington Post
White House officials attend Hungarian Embassy event urging women to have more children
Effectively ostracized by President Obama, Hungary’s leader finds allies in Trump administration
By Ariana Eunjung Cha March 21 at 6:00 AM
To look at the Twitter feed of Katalin Novák, the Hungarian minister of family affairs, you’d be hard-pressed to find evidence of the global outrage confronting her government. Members of the European Parliament have accused it of undermining human rights and democratic values, and the main bloc voted Wednesday in an unprecedented action to suspend the membership of Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s Fidesz party from its coalition.
But Novák’s social media feed is full of accolades from Americans — most prominently, from social conservatives in President Trump’s administration.
They include White House special assistant Katy Talento, White House strategic communications director Mercedes Schlapp and several members of Congress, who on March 14 attended an invitation-only conference — “Make Families Great Again” — hosted by the Embassy of Hungary at the Library of Congress in Washington.
U.S. Health and Human Services senior adviser Valerie Huber, known for her support of abstinence-only education, was a keynote speaker at the event to promote Orban’s seven-point “Family Protection Action Plan,” designed to promote marriage and families and spawn a baby boom.
Also present were prominent antiabortion leaders, including Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council and representatives from the Heritage Foundation’s DeVos Center for Religion and Civil Society.
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Effectively ostracized by President Obama, Hungary’s leader finds allies in Trump administration
By Ariana Eunjung Cha March 21 at 6:00 AM
To look at the Twitter feed of Katalin Novák, the Hungarian minister of family affairs, you’d be hard-pressed to find evidence of the global outrage confronting her government. Members of the European Parliament have accused it of undermining human rights and democratic values, and the main bloc voted Wednesday in an unprecedented action to suspend the membership of Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s Fidesz party from its coalition.
But Novák’s social media feed is full of accolades from Americans — most prominently, from social conservatives in President Trump’s administration.
They include White House special assistant Katy Talento, White House strategic communications director Mercedes Schlapp and several members of Congress, who on March 14 attended an invitation-only conference — “Make Families Great Again” — hosted by the Embassy of Hungary at the Library of Congress in Washington.
U.S. Health and Human Services senior adviser Valerie Huber, known for her support of abstinence-only education, was a keynote speaker at the event to promote Orban’s seven-point “Family Protection Action Plan,” designed to promote marriage and families and spawn a baby boom.
Also present were prominent antiabortion leaders, including Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council and representatives from the Heritage Foundation’s DeVos Center for Religion and Civil Society.
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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2019/03/21/white-house-officials-attend-hungarian-embassy-event-urging-women-have-more-children/