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Remind me. Which country has "reflagged" their embassies under the new global sovereign ?
Posted on 12/01/2023 11:11:30 AM PST by Morgana
Russia has long touted itself as a country home to what President Vladimir Putin often calls “traditional family values”.
The Federal Assembly has cracked down on the LGBTQ community, passing legislation outlawing gender-affirming surgeries and banning “gay propaganda”.
Now social conservatives have a new target: reproductive rights.
Terminating a pregnancy is a legal and widely available procedure in Russia, but in recent weeks and months, a flurry of new laws appear to limit abortion access amid fears of further population declines and a push towards conservatism.
In August and November, two Russian regions – Mordovia and Tver – passed laws punishing anyone found to “coerce” women into abortions.
In October, lawmakers approved legislation restricting access to abortion drugs, measures that could also affect the sale of some contraceptives.
Meanwhile, all private health clinics in Russian-occupied Crimea announced that they will stop providing abortions altogether, according to the independent news outlet Meduza.
Konstantin Skorupsky, head of the Crimean Ministry of Health, was cited by Meduza as saying the heads of commercial clinics were urged to stop providing abortion services as a way of “doing their part to improve the demographic situation” on the occupied peninsula.
Other private clinics in Russia have limited the provision of abortions too. Women are pushed instead to go to government clinics, where wait times are long. At these clinics, reports suggest that staff pressure patients to continue their pregnancies.
In some regions, government clinics hold anti-abortion “days of silence”, when the procedure is not performed.
(Excerpt) Read more at aljazeera.com ...
Good !
Signs of a sustainable civilization.
As opposed to what we see in the West.
We used to taunt the antiwar marchers in the 60s with “why don’t you go over to Moscow and try protesting over there?”
Now we must assume the worldwide feminist movement will have pro-abortion women carrying placards in Russia about this.
Well said.
That should be interesting.
Spare me. Do not attempt to sell me the line that Russia is some sort of bulwark of Western civilization.
We have had much success since roe was over turned but still many states have gone the other way and gotten worse.
In some things yes they are.
The future belongs to Russia if they can get a rid of their abortion rate (not sure if they can though).
As demographics is destiny, I believe what we are seeing in USA is not a sunrise, but rather a sunset.
This is why Globohomo seeks to destroy them.
Good! He already limited it once before - in the USSR the average was something insane, like 13 abortions per woman.
People that study demographics and understand math, know that North America above Mexico, Europe, and Asia are getting old with a lower than usual replacement populations.
One of the ways to change this trend is to make abortion less available.
Another would be for flaws to occur in condoms, birth control, IUD’s, etc.
They have a long way to go. Russia has the highest abortion rate of any developed nation, more than double that of the US (which is also horrible, but at least it’s declining). Russia also has the highest HIV rate of any developed nation, the highest alcoholism rate, and about 1/3 the USA’s church attendance rate.
I pray they (and we) are able to turn all of these things around, but as of now, Russia is a morality desert.
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Remind me. Which country has "reflagged" their embassies under the new global sovereign ?
I was replying on topic, Jeremiah. I am as disgusted with the left’s obsession with homosexuality as anyone.
The US government has exported national suicide worldwide since Nobama.
In 1988, the country registered an abortion rate of 92.6 abortions/1000 women aged 15-49 (or 118 abortions/100 births). The yearly number of abortions in the USSR, some 6.5 million (according to official figures), accounts for 10-20% of all abortions performed worldwide. Independent sources put the yearly number of abortions at 10-11 million. - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12222340/
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1248769/us-ussr-abortion-rates-cold-war/
September 20, 2003 Russian women's right to terminate pregnancies is to be dramatically curtailed under a new government decree that has sparked the country's first serious debate about abortion in decades. - https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140673603144042.pdfSeptember 22, 2021 14:45 GMT Russia Announces Plan To Halve Abortion Rates To Spur Population Growth As part of the new measures regarding abortion, the authorities plan to improve public access to legal, psychological, and medical assistance for pregnant women considering terminating their pregnancies.
The program also sets out the goal of ensuring that 80 percent of women considering an abortion undergo consultations with a doctor, with a focus on increasing the likelihood that they reject the procedure. The official document, which was flagged by Russian media after its publication online, has elicited controversy among women's rights activists, who insist that abortion should be a universal right and that the state's role in regulating it should be minimal.
In March, Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova said that the number of abortions in Russia had declined by 39 percent since 2016. - https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-plan-reduce-abortions/31473124.htmlHistorical abortion statistics, Russia compiled by Wm. Robert Johnston last updated 29 July 2023
abortion ratio all in country 1938 102.8
1958 1,397.3
1965 2,744.7
1995 2,058.1
2005 1,183.6
2015 437.1
2022 302.4 [all but about 70k are listed as legal] - https://www.johnstonsarchive.net/policy/abortion/ab-russia.htmlOct 27, 2023 Abortion restrictions in Russia spark outrage [esp. among the Left in the West] as the country takes a conservative turn. - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/abortion-restrictions-in-russia-spark-outrage-as-the-country-takes-a-conservative-turn
And I’m supposed to hate Putin why?
Of course not. But very oriented toward their own survival.
Can the same be said for Western civilization? We don't have to be like them in all particulars to learn from them.
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