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Russia Enacts Law Opposing Abortion

Jul 18, 2011 18:59

MOSCOW - President Dmitri A. Medvedev has signed into law the first steps intended to restrict abortion since the collapse of communism, the latest salvo in what is beginning to resemble the fierce divide over abortion in the United States ( Read more... )

laws/legislation, europe, bodily autonomy, birth control, abortion, politics, religion

Comments 4

subluxate July 18 2011, 19:27:52 UTC

Let me guess, too--this payout for having a third child is a one-time thing that nowhere near covers all the expenses of childhood.

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must_go_faster July 18 2011, 20:57:15 UTC

how deviant of women to not want to get married to and end up having kids with wife-beating alcoholics like their daddies were

akashasheiress July 18 2011, 20:03:11 UTC

''Mr. Medvedev has made the fight against Russia’s falling birthrate and plunging population, now at just under 143 million, a feature of his presidency''

Fuck this. Turning women into incubators isn't the answer.

ladycakes July 18 2011, 23:57:32 UTC

Abortion should be a goddamn human rights issue. For fuck's sake. So sick of any argument against it because they are all fucking invalid and it all comes down to controlling women. FUCK.