It's happening: ABORTION ADS BANNED IN RUSSIA.

[Danno 1,228]

Russia has joined Spain in the effort to reign in abortions as both countries are in a demographic free-fall. (Another danno prediction coming to pass)

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Putin Signs Law Banning Abortion Ads as It Decimates Russia’s Population

As abortions decimate the Russian population, Russian President Vladimir Putin has sign into law a new measure that bans advertising abortions.

From a report on the ban:

Russia’s Federal Law on Advertising now includes the ban on advertising abortions and several restrictions concerning the advertising of traditional medical practices. In addition, the changes outlaw advertising campaigns which include free drug samples if these samples contain narcotic or psychotropic substances.

Abortions are legal in Russia and have been since Soviet times, but currently centrist-conservative lawmakers want to limit or completely ban such practices saying it is partly responsible for the country’s dwindling population.

In early October an official representative of the Russian Orthodox Church blasted abortions and surrogacy as “

mutiny against God

” and less than a month later the head of the Lower House committee for family and children, Yelena Mizulina, said in a speech that the community must urgently stop tolerating abortions and surrogacy as they threaten to wipe out the population in Russia, and the world as a whole.

The move gained little support from other politicians and shortly afterwards Mizulina played down her statements saying that she wanted to draw attention to the problem and start a discussion, not introduce any legislative limitations.

In September this year Deputy Health Minister Tatyana Yakovleva announced the number of abortions in Russia had fallen by a quarter over the past five years, but remains very high at about one million per year.

Russia’s population has indeed been decimated by abortion and its use as birth control.

A foreign policy expert says Russia is falling apart culturally because as much as two percent of the nation’s potential population is victimized by abortion every year. Ilan Berman says Russia’s population implosion may also cause problems for the United States and present worldwide issues.

The reality is that Russia continues to bleed population. For about a decade and a half now, projections have been that Russia’s population will plummet from 140-150 million to 104 million by 2050. What are the chief causal factors in this? There are several, but among the biggest is abortion, which occurs in Russia at an astonishingly high level. Putin has tried to slow the hemorrhage, but has failed to do so.

Abortion was legalized in Russia by the Bolsheviks shortly after they seized power in October 1917. Vladimir Lenin made good on his promise for an “unconditional annulment of all laws against abortion.” In short order, the number of abortions skyrocketed. By 1934, Moscow women were having three abortions for every live birth. The toll was so staggering that an appalled Joseph Stalin, the mass murderer, actually banned abortion in 1936, fearing a vanishing populace.

In 1955, Stalin’s successor, Nikita Khrushchev, reconstituted legalized abortion. By 1958, there were 5 million abortions per year in the Soviet Union. (This contradicted Margaret Sanger’s optimistic prediction that “neither abortions nor contraception will be necessary or desired” once a “functioning communistic society” was in full bloom in the Soviet Union.) By 1965, abortions peaked at 8.2 million, dwarfing the worst years in America post-Roe v. Wade. By 1970, some 3,000 full-time abortion doctors were performing roughly 7.2 million abortions per year. By the 1980s, Soviet citizens comprised 5-6 percent of the world’s population but 25 percent of the world’s abortions.

http://www.lifenews.com/2013/11/25/putin-signs-law-banning-abortion-ads-as-it-decimates-russias-population/

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Who advertises abortion? It's not exactly a choice industry, is it?

The Rolls Royce of abortion clinics. I can't see it.

[Danno 1,228]

Who advertises abortion? It's not exactly a choice industry, is it?

The Rolls Royce of abortion clinics. I can't see it.

You think planned parenthood does not advertise and promote their grisly business?

HA! They do it with public funds.

[Peikko 1,575]

You think planned parenthood does not advertise and promote their grisly business?

HA! They do it with public funds.

They promote responsible sexual activity and planned pregnancy. The idea that they go around advertising abortions to people who have no intention of ending a pregnancy is ridiculous.

[Peikko 1,575]

Clearly, they need to do a better job at promoting preventing pregnancies which is obviously a better way for everyone. I am not sure why there is a culture of abortion rather than prevention and one suspects that sexually transmitted disease is rife as well. Sadly, I would think what it boils down to is that women are not treated very well in Russia, it's always been a patriarchal society,

[Peikko 1,575]

Of course, the piece has been tailored to fit your world view Danno, I am sure there are plenty of non sensational explanations for what is going on in Russia that make a deal more sense than the conclusions drawn here.

[Karee 4,191]

Of course, the piece has been tailored to fit your world view Danno, I am sure there are plenty of non sensational explanations for what is going on in Russia that make a deal more sense than the conclusions drawn here.

You can always edit existing posts instead of adding more as arguments pop in to your head.

[Danno 1,228]

Clearly, they need to do a better job at promoting preventing pregnancies which is obviously a better way for everyone. I am not sure why there is a culture of abortion rather than prevention and one suspects that sexually transmitted disease is rife as well. Sadly, I would think what it boils down to is that women are not treated very well in Russia, it's always been a patriarchal society,

I needed that chuckle.

We gotta make up our minds, either Patriarchal societies want women pregnant or they want them to get abortions.... which is it?

Anyway, as for Russia, the Soviets were big on abortion and when the collapse came, they really took off.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

I needed that chuckle.

We gotta make up our minds, either Patriarchal societies want women pregnant or they want them to get abortions.... which is it?

Anyway, as for Russia, the Soviets were big on abortion and when the collapse came, they really took off.

Talking about making up our minds, how about you making up your mind?

If the Soviets were the ones driving abortions, shouldn't abortions have collapsed along with the Soviets?

[Danno 1,228]

Talking about making up our minds, how about you making up your mind?

If the Soviets were the ones driving abortions, shouldn't abortions have collapsed along with the Soviets?

That really makes no sense, The Soviets also pushed a lot of things such as sports, acedemics and mass transportation.

[JohnR! 5,495]

Russias population has indeed been decimated by abortion and its use as birth control.

That sounds like something the old Pravda would have published. However, one might ask how is it possible that the population in Russia is being decimated when there are thousands of abandoned kids in Russian orphanages waiting for western couples to adopt them.

Furthermore, we all know how much effect on smoking the ban on cigarette ads had in the US.

Last time anyone checked there is an excess of unwanted kids in Russia, which really hardly indicates a decline in population because of abortions.

However, it is easy to see how this useless piece of legislation would be heralded as breaking news by those who consider Putin a paragon of democracy. It's Orwellian at best.

http://en.ria.ru/analysis/20100630/159641732.html

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9810880

Edited December 29, 2013 by Gegel

[Peikko 1,575]

I needed that chuckle.

We gotta make up our minds, either Patriarchal societies want women pregnant or they want them to get abortions.... which is it?

Anyway, as for Russia, the Soviets were big on abortion and when the collapse came, they really took off.

Access to abortions is not the only thing that constitutes freedom for a woman. Such a conclusion is monumentally stupid.

[Darnell 8,479]

Mutiny against God ! wow !

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

That really makes no sense, The Soviets also pushed a lot of things such as sports, acedemics and mass transportation.

It was you that said that the Soviets pushed abortions and that they took off as the Soviets collapsed. Did sports and academics and mass transportation also take off when the Soviet Union collapsed? How about communism? They were big on that, too. Did that take off following the collapse of the Soviet Union as well?

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

You think planned parenthood does not advertise and promote their grisly business?

HA! They do it with public funds.

"Abort today, ski tomorrow"

Sorry, I can't see it.