The President spoke out against the ban on abortions in private clinics

“Better put antenatal clinics in order”

The President was asked about bans on abortions in private clinics – does this mean that abortions could be banned altogether? The President rejected such an assumption. But he spoke about the need for improvements in the system of women’s health care and social benefits.

The news of the ban on private abortion operations even caused the president some surprise. “Why are they talking about some kind of bacchanalia and prohibitions? They don’t exist,” he said.

Putin admitted that “we need to act very carefully in this area… I know about the position of the church…” And drew an analogy with the “sad results of the anti-alcohol campaign” during Gorbachev’s reign, when everything containing alcohol was thoughtlessly banned. With a concomitant surge in the consumption of surrogate alcohol. “We must respect the rights and freedoms of women,” the president concluded.

The President also called not to look at the problem of abortion one-dimensionally. “The solution to the problem lies in two areas: turning to our traditional values, one of which is a large family, education in the sense that a child is a gift from God. But we must also admit: circumstances in life are different…”

Developing his idea, the head of state emphasized that not by birth alone, the child still needs to be raised and educated. “We need to think about working in the future to support networks with children: this includes mortgages and subsidies…” Putin said. And he made another very important remark: he mentioned that antenatal clinics and maternity wards in hospitals need to be “put in order.”

It turns out that the head of state opposed the trend of the last year, when for a short period private clinics in Crimea, Mordovia, Tatarstan, Chelyabinsk, Kursk and some other regions voluntarily refused to perform abortions, in whole or in part. And just the day before, a bill was introduced to the State Duma on a complete ban on abortions in private clinics in the Russian Federation. Everywhere.

MK has already written that this year in Mordovia and the Tver region a law was introduced banning inducement to abortion, providing for substantial fines for such inducement. And manuals for obstetricians and gynecologists with templates of answers and exhortations for preserving the fetus under any conditions, even for women in labor under 17 years of age, were sent out to the regions.

The official position of the Russian Orthodox Church on abortion is also known. Considering getting rid of an unwanted pregnancy a sin, church leaders are demanding a complete ban on abortions for private clinics. And earlier they advocated for the removal of abortion from the compulsory medical insurance system. Some priests even agreed that a woman should leave a child conceived as a result of rape: “Rape is a sin, abortion is an even greater sin.”

In the fall, the Ministry of Health included almost all drugs for medical abortion in the list of drugs for subject-quantitative recording. This was explained by the fact that taking such medications outside a medical organization increases the risk of complications, can cause allergies, angioedema and even lead to death.