Amidst the war and the difficult demographic situation in Russia, pressure on women is increasing
Sep 12, 2025
Deutsche Welle
The authorities in Russia are in fact continuing to restrict women's access to abortions. Under pressure from the state, private clinics are increasingly refusing the procedure for terminating pregnancy or delaying it. In the Murmansk region, for example, there is an unofficial ban on medical abortions after the sixth week of pregnancy, human rights activists report. After this period, women are left with only the more traumatic methods: vacuum aspiration or curettage.
This is happening against the backdrop of the worsening demographic situation in Russia. After May of this year, the Russian authorities stopped publishing demographic statistics. Shortly before that, the independent analyst and former expert at "Rosstat" Alexey Raksha announced that in March, an absolute record number of births was set in Russia since such statistics were kept at the end of the 18th century.
Continued: https://fakti.bg/en/world/999830-abortion-ban-in-russia-unofficially-in-force