Russian Church Congress Proposes Plan to Phase Abortions Out of Insurance System

Pravoslavie ^ | 7/22/21

[marshmallow]

Participants in the Russian Orthodox Church’s 10th General Church Congress on Social Service have proposed a plan for the phased removal of abortions by request from the compulsory medical insurance system.

The Congress was held May 13-15 with the participation of representatives from 165 dioceses throughout Russia and abroad, sisters and clergy from Sisters of Mercy branches, the heads of Orthodox social projects, and social workers. The forum’s final document was approved by His Holiness Patriarch Kirill and published yesterday.

“Taking into account Germany’s experience, where payment for an abortion at the expense of insurance is provided only when there are social or medical reasons or because of the extreme poverty of a woman,” the document states, “it is proposed to consider the possibility of phasing out abortions by request of a woman from the CHI system—at first, following the example of Germany, for women with an income above the poverty line, and then for all cases where a woman appeals for an abortion out of desire.”

The participants also proposed a ban on doctors and medical workers on their own initiative offering a woman to have an abortion.

The Congress also proposed that a federal law be adopted mandating ultrasound imaging and listening to the baby’s heartbeat for women who have expressed a desire for an abortion, as well mandatory counseling.

[Fai Mao]

Russia is more Christian than the US.

[DennisR]

Should be “Russia is more Christian than the lefties/Democrats in Congress in the US.”

[Mount Athos]

The abortion rate, birth rate and divorce rate in Russia are still bad.

The first two are improving, not sure about third. I think the divorce rate is currently the worst in europe