‘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 plummeting. It has fallen from 149 million in 1992 to 142 million in 2007, and commonly cited estimates indicate that if trends continue the population will fall to 100 million by 2050.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has called the collapse of Russia's population ""the most acute problem facing our country today", and said that the population has been falling by 700,000 people...
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 homes that found that selective abortion accounted for 500,000 missing girls each year. The practice of...
UNICEF Pro-Abortion Policies under Scrutiny
13th Sep 05
According to Dick Hogan of the Irish Family, groups with a major international image, like UNFPA and UNICEF “greatly dislike being associated with the pro-abortion lobby”. However, he said, while the UNFPA has been associated with pro-abortion policies for some years, UNICEF, the UN...