Russia’s Orthodox church, lawmakers want to limit abortion
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Patriarchal Theocrats always want to control all aspects of sex, and it doesn’t matter what country they are in. The same fundamentalist Orthodoxy in Russia is also anti-birth control, anti-divorce, and anti-gay.
Russia’s Orthodox Church teamed with Conservative parliamentarians Monday to push legislation that would radically restrict abortions in a nation struggling to cope with one of the world’s lowest birthrates.
The legislation would ban free abortions at government-run clinics and prohibit the sale of the morning-after pill without a prescription, said Yelena Mizulina, who heads a parliamentary committee on families, women and children.
She added that abortion for a married woman would also require the permission of her spouse, while teenage girls would need their parents’ consent. If the legislation is passed, a week’s waiting period would also be introduced so women could consider their decision to terminate their pregnancy, Mizulina said.