Russian City Prepares for Week Without Abortions to Combat Underpopulation
4th Dec 08
The Russian city of Novorossiysk located near the Black Sea is starting a campaign called a "Week Without Abortions". The idea is to prohibit abortions temporarily in the city and encourage couples to have children in an effort to combat the growing underpopulation problem.
Russia, like many of its neighbours in Eastern Europe, is experiencing severe underpopulation thanks to abortion being used as a method of birth control for decades. Most demographers generally believe that Russia's current population of 144 million will fall to 115 million by 2050.
But Murray Feshbach, with the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars, thinks Russia's population will drop to 101 million and could go as low as 77 million by mid-point in this century.
During...
‘March for Russia’ Protests Against Abortion in Face of Plummeting Population
7th Nov 08
On November 4th, a coalition of organisations marched through the streets of Moscow to protest against abortion in Russia, according to the Russian news organization Pravda. The march comes in response to a plummeting Russian population.
Due to a sky-high abortion rate, which in recent years has stood at around 13 abortions for every 10 live births, the Russian population is...
Ten Million Girls Aborted in India
2nd Feb 06
Ten Million Girls Aborted in India
A study published in The Lancet, a British medical journal, has warned that gender abortion in India over the past 20 years has resulted in the deaths of 10 million baby girls.
The figure is revealed by a survey of more than a million...