Back الإجهاض في روسيا Arabic سقط جنین در روسیه Persian Avortement en Russie French Pobačaj u Rusiji Croatian په روسیه کې د جنین سقط Pashto/Pushto Aborto na Rússia Portuguese Аборты в России Russian Абортус у Русији Serbian Аборти в Росії Ukrainian
Abortion in Russia is legal as an elective procedure up to the 12th week of pregnancy, and in special circumstances at later stages.[1] In 2009, Russia reported 1.2 million abortions,[2] out of a population of 143 million people. In 2020, Russia had decreased its number of abortions to 450 thousand.[3]
Following the takeover of Russia by the Bolsheviks, the Russian Soviet Republic under Vladimir Lenin became the first country in the world in the modern era to allow abortion in all circumstances in 1920. Over the course of the 20th century, the legality of abortion changed more than once, with a ban on unconditional abortions being enacted again from 1936 to 1955, after which it was legalised again. Due to this, the country gained a termed "abortion culture".[4] Russian abortions peaked in the middle of the 1960s, with a total of 5,463,300 abortions being performed in 1965.[5] In the entire Soviet Union, from its legalisation, until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, over 260 million abortions took place (mostly in Russia).
- ^ (in Russian) Федеральный закон Российской Федерации от 21 ноября 2011 г. N 323-ФЗ
- ^ "Число абортов в России за пять лет сократилось на треть". 14 May 2021.
- ^ "Historical abortion statistics, Russia". 14 May 2021.
- ^ Karpov, Vyacheslav; Kääriäinen, Kimmo (September 2005). ""Abortion Culture" in Russia: Its Origins, Scope, and Challenge to Social Development". Journal of Applied Sociology. os-22 (2): 13–33. doi:10.1177/19367244052200202. ISSN 0749-0232. S2CID 157609322.
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