Posted on 11/26/2020 5:29:20 PM PST by marshmallow
The Russian Orthodox Church has again raised its voice against the inclusion of abortion in the services that are covered by the taxpayer-funded state insurance program.
In particular, Maria Studenikina, the head of the Synodal Charity and Social Service Department’s pro-life division and director of the Orthodox “Mercy” service’s “Home for Mothers,” spoke in favor of the proposal put forth by Oleg Apolikhin, the Russian Ministry of Health’s chief reproductologist, to remove abortions from the health insurance system.
At present, the state guarantees that it will cover abortions costs using taxpayer money.
“We support Oleg’s desire to jump-start these urgent issues. The awareness that abortion is the murder of a person is steadily growing in society,” Studenikina said, citing sociological research that shows that almost 80% of Russians are in agreement with this position of the Russian Church, reports the Church's site.
The measures put forth by the reproductologist aim to ultimately bring public conscience and legislation into agreement, Studenikina said.
“Abortion should become unfashionable, and it is becoming unfashionable. For a modern educated person, this should become a socially negative phenomenon,” Apolikhin earlier said.
The fight against abortion is the Church’s most important social work, Patriarch Kirill said at the VII Church-wide Congress for Social Work in Moscow in 2017.
(Excerpt) Read more at orthochristian.com ...
Russia gets some things right.
They need BAIBES. not DEPRESSION and ALCOHOLISM
I have been there 10 times and have never seen anyone drinking or depressed. Get over the stereotypes already
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