Abortion restrictions in Russia spark outrage as the country takes a conservative turn
Source: Associated Press
Abortion restrictions in Russia spark outrage as the country takes a conservative turn
BY DASHA LITVINOVA
Updated 12:47 AM EDT, October 27, 2023
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Despite its last-minute scheduling, the meeting at a bookstore in Russia’s westernmost city of Kaliningrad still drew about 60 people, with many outraged by a lawmaker’s efforts to ban abortions in local private clinics.
The weeknight turnout surprised and heartened Dasha Yakovleva, one of the organizers, amid recent crackdowns on political activism under President Vladimir Putin.
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A ‘GRADUAL EROSION’ OF ABORTION ACCESS
While only a proposal for now in Kaliningrad, private clinics elsewhere have begun to stop providing abortions. Nationwide, the Health Ministry has drawn up talking points for doctors to discourage women from terminating their pregnancies, and new regulations soon will make many emergency contraceptives virtually unavailable and drive up the cost of others.
“It’s clear that there is a gradual erosion of abortion access and rights in Russia, and this is similar to what has taken place in the U.S.,” said Michele Rivkin-Fish, an anthropologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Russian birthrates are low, men are dying, and abortion is high.
Russia is facing a huge top heavy demographic crisis with aging population. It is also facing a huge skew in demographics as females outnumber males and the ratio is getting worse as Putin kills off so many in foreign aggression. Critical dips in 20-something and under-10 populations. Smart 20-somethings have fled the country.
