While Russia has historically had a liberal abortion policy — with the exception of the Stalin-era ban — the conservative turn among the country’s leadership, combined with a push from the Russian Orthodox Church, have put a target on the issue.

  • Talaraine@kbin.social
    34·
    1 year ago

    I’m sure this has nothing to do with the number of fighting aged men they’re losing at the front right now.

    • Gingerailed@kbin.social
      13·
      1 year ago

      Country ran by dipshit(s) kills too much of their utilizable population.
      Becomes suddenly very ‘pro-life’.

      Why does that sound so familiar…?

    • tal@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      I once tried eyeballing – no serious statistical analysis – national total fertility rates for a number of countries and then looking up when abortion became legal. I didn’t see an obvious drop anywhere around legalization.

      Legalized oral contraception did have a visible difference, though.

      I’m not sure that re-banning abortion is actually gonna have much impact on fertility rates, though I’d be interested to see whether someone running an actual statistical analysis turns up anything.

      A complicating factor might be enforcement level – like, some countries might have had abortion be illegal at some point in time but also not enforced laws on it much. I did not attempt to account for that. Also might be a spillover effect from nearby countries with legalized abortion; people might just have traveled and gotten an abortion outside of their home region.