They used to make pilgrimages to Iowa and New Hampshire. Now they go to Budapest:
Former Vice President Mike Pence said Wednesday he’s hopeful the majority-conservative Supreme Court secured during the Trump administration will overturn abortion rights in the United States, according to AP.
Pence made the comments at a biennial forum held in Budapest by conservative leaders concerned about changes in demographics, family values, fertility rates and illegal immigration into Western countries.
“We see a crisis that brings us here today, a crisis that strikes at the very heart of civilization itself,” Pence said during his speech at the forum, according to AP. “The erosion of the nuclear family marked by declining marriage rates, rising divorce, widespread abortion and plummeting birth rates.”“
We may well have a fresh start in the cause of life in America. It is our hope and our prayer that in the coming days, a new conservative majority on the Supreme Court of the United States will take action to restore the sanctity of life at the center of American law.”
Pence praised Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who has been recently commended by other American conservative figures, for falling abortion rates under his leadership.
Orban has been accused of eroding Hungary’s democratic institutions and discriminating against minorities, including asylum seekers and LGBT people, according to AP.
Mike Pence made a pilgrimage to to right’s new European epicenter. I guess he figures he can out-Trump Trump? Uhm, not gonna happen.
But nobody can doubt his credentials when it comes to forced childbirth.