The Russian Orthodox Church complained that Russian women have abortions in private clinics, which “deprives the state of direct interaction with women”The main age group of women having abortions is Russian women aged 30 to 39 years. Their financial situation allows them to go to private clinics, where they are not dissuaded from having an abortion, said the head of the Patriarchal Commission on Family Issues, Fyodor Lukyanov.
Artificial termination of pregnancy undermines the demographic security of the state. Women aged 30 to 39 years old go to private clinics, which makes it impossible for the state to directly interact with women
— the priest told Vedomosti.
The Russian Orthodox Church will continue to insist on a ban on abortions in private clinics: maintaining pregnancy is the only way to “even out” the birth rate in the country, the priest is convinced.
The Russian Orthodox Church called abortion “a form of euthanasia of the people” and “suicide of the nation.”
