Posted on 12/24/2013 6:33:33 AM PST by marshmallow
Last month, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law banning abortion advertising. Some members of the Duma (the Russian state assembly), are talking about going even further and banning the procedure itself. The Russian Orthodox Church, whose numbers are swelling with converts and “reverts,” is weighing in as well. One Orthodox prelate called abortion a “mutiny against God.” I couldn’t have put it better myself.
This is an amazing turn about in a country which has long been known for its tragically high abortion rate. Until recently, the average woman in Russia could expect to have seven abortions over her lifetime. Even The New York Times, no bastion of pro-life sentiment, has been compelled to acknowledge that Russia’s high abortion rate was damaging the health and fertility of Russian women. As the paper noted in a 2003 editorial, “Now the Russian government is attempting to slow the abortion rate. It is an admirable goal, given the toll that multiple abortions have taken on the health and fertility of Russia’s women.” Not to mention the toll that abortion has taken on the unborn, and on the population as a whole.
Abortion was forced on the Russian people by the Bolsheviks (the Russian communist party under Lenin), who upon coming to power in 1920 legalized abortion up to birth without any restrictions. Their goal was to destroy the family by encouraging women to get abortions, get out of the home and into the workforce. Russia was the first country in the world to declare war on the unborn in this way. Of course, with its purges, mass executions, and Gulag it warred on the unborn in other ways as well.
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I suspect it is removing more than 10%.
Putin is a better defender of western culture than current US leaders.
I would sooner trust a Slav ex-KGB officer than Obama.
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Russia bump.
I recognize the myriad ways Russia is a problem in this world, and to our nation (not as much as before by the way), but I have to hand it to Putin.
On this subject there is only one nation standing strong.
And it is not the USA.
?!!!! Just damn!!
That does not seem possible. SEVEN?!!!
Putin forbade the building of new mosques in Moscow.
Putin forbade participation in highly public gay rallies.
If he likes his Russian Culture, then he can keep it. No one can take it away. No matter what.
So, to all of you pro-lifers who are trying to rain on my parade, keep it to yourself, because I don't have the time for that kind of negativity. I've got an abortion to plan, and I just know it's going to be the best non-anesthetized invasive uterine surgery ever!
The funny thing is, I actually have the pro-life movement to thank for this opportunity. If my HMO wouldn't have bowed to their pressure not to cover oral contraceptives, I never would've gotten pregnant in the first place. Then what would I be doing a week from Thursday? I'll tell you what I wouldn't be doing: going to an awesome abortion clinic where I'll be the center of attention from the minute I put my feet up in those stirrups.
I seriously cannot wait for all the hemorrhaging and the uterine contractions. This abortion is going to be so amazing. I'm definitely taking lots of pictures so I can remember every last detail of the whole experience for years to come and share my great memories with all of my friends, family and co-workers. What an easy decision this was!
I realize there are those who will condemn me to hell for what I'm about to do. Well, I don't care what they say: It's worth it for all the fun and laughs I'm going to have at the clinic. So listen up, world: I'm pro-abortion... and I love it!
See you at my post-abortion party, everybody!(satire/off)
Abortion is not the problem. Abortion is just a symptom of the real problem.
Women not wanting children is the real problem which needs to be addressed.
the tragedy of a society that made it easier for a woman to get an abortion than to have access to birth control pills
I adopted a child whose Russian mother had 9 abortions before his birth and abandonment at the maternity hospital
don’t know why she chose to have him but he is a blessing
narses, you are all over the board on this ping list.
True.
Merry Christmas!
alcoholism
especially among men
makes it hard on Russian women who have to choose whether to bear children when they are pretty much going to have to raise them, pay all the school fees, keep up a household in a tiny apartment or run down home without modern conveniences, and also work for pittance wages
I am talking about the Russia in the small villages towns and cities, far away from most westerners see in Moscow and St Pete
“While there are still, according to the Russian Health Ministry, 1.7 abortions for every live birth in the country, that ratio is shrinking as the birth rate climbs and abortion becomes gradually less common.”
According to this Russia’s abortion rate has declined steeply from the unreal numbers in the early 90’s. This says there where around 42 abortions per 100 live births in 2012 Russia, in 2003 USA there were 24 from what I have found.
It could be that they are just using better western style birth control now, I suppose. Does anyone know if there is an official Russian Orthodox position on birth control within marriage? I have heard different things from posters on here before.
“So, in 2012 there were about 42 abortions per 100 live births, not 130. The last time the number of abortions exceeded the number of births by 30% or more was in 2002. Additionally, rather than representing “the most grisly statistic the world has ever seen,” an abortion rate 30% larger than the birth rate was actually a huge improvement from rates that prevailed in the early 1990s”
According to this, there was a peak of something like 280 abortions per 100 live births in the early 90’s.
Freegards
Axios! Thumbs up to the good bishop. In this case, the treason in the heart against God starts with contraception: a mutiny against the life-giving meaning which God Himself intricately inscribed in our sexuality.
The Orthodox are gaining God-pleasing believers in leaps in bounds. This is indeed a sign that God will favor them once more, because they revere Life and the source of Life.
Putin takes several of these actions a year now, and it can't be just for publicity any more. I suspect it is for Russian national survival, and to build a more powerful Russia, and not just for Putin.
Russia has the longest history and the most firsthand experience with Communism and are the first to travel the road back. It is certainly with great difficulty, but necessary to restore a worthy civilization to the planet.
I’ve lived in Russia for 20 years. I can’t say I’ve met anyone in the younger generation (grew up post Soviet Union) who has had an abortion, let alone an average of seven!
Maybe I travel in the wrong circles...
We don’t have to have children anymore. We can just import illegal Mexicans to do it for us.
Sure, the feminist movement has convinced them that bearing children is a nuisance at best but in actuality a burden and imposition on their selfhood.
No brood farms (ala ‘World War Z’)? /obscure(?)
Must admit, he’s keeping Russia culture alive...at all costs.
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