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25 January 2012, 11:08Up to 2.5 million abortions conducted in Russia each year
Moscow, January 25, Interfax - Each year, 2-2.5 million women have abortions in Russia, said Igor Beloborodov, Director at the Institute of Demographic Studies.
"Although the Health Care Ministry can show a reduction - let's say, the figure will be 1.2 million in the next report, but one has to understand that there is a vast layer of private clinics, and their savage function of child extermination is operating in full swing. Laws are not obeyed there very often. Sometimes pregnancy termination at any stage is a just a matter of paid sum," Beloborodov said in an interview with the Radonezh Orthodox radio station.
Russia will never overcome the demographic decline, if it does not change its attitude toward abortion, contraception, which are often of an abortive nature and disable woman's health, he said.
In the past year, the country saw 1.7 million births, Beloborodov said. "But even by official statistics, abortions have long exceeded the birth rate by approximately 60%. That is excluding pharmacological nonsurgical abortions in the early stages," the expert said.
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