Russia Restricts Abortions As Population Dips

This news story about Russia restricting abortions in attempt to solve the problem of decreasing population caught our attention this past weekend. Here at EFP, we like to stay on top of current events which pertain to birth and all aspects of family planning, so this was especially interesting to us. As an unbiased informative website, we appreciate generating discussions among our readers and providing content which does exactly that.

Russia's parliament has adopted a controversial law restricting abortions in an attempt to tackle the country's population collapse.

The UN predicted that, by 2050, Russia's population will shrink by a fifth to 116 million.

Critics of the change in law said limiting women's choice is the wrong way to tackle the problem, in a country where women are almost twice as likely to have an abortion as a live birth.

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