Children of good health quality are born at age 20.” How the authorities are forcing young Russian women to give birth, and where is it hardest to get an abortion?

“Children of good health quality are born at age 20.” How the authorities are forcing young Russian women to give birth, and where is it hardest to get an abortion?

There is no official ban on abortions in Russia, but regions are increasingly restricting access to them. Verstka assessed pressure measures across the country and compiled an anti-rating. The situation is worst in the Vologda region, where all five possible restrictive measures are in force.

At the same time, demographers are certain that such measures do not increase the birth rate. The decline in the number of abortions in Russia is a natural trend of the past 30 years, Alexey Raksha says.

And governors’ reports claiming that abortions are becoming less common because of a package of anti-abortion policy measures are an attempt to take credit for a natural trend.

Verstka studied how anti-abortion pressure measures work in Russia’s regions. Read the article on the website (with a VPN):

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