Abortions in Russia before and after the fall of the Soviet Union

• Authors: Tomasz Wites

Abstracts

EN

The initial section of the article elaborates on diverse attitudes towards abortion, and specifies the number of abortions performed before and after the fall of the Soviet Union. The following section presents spatial characteristic of the performed abortions against the largest Russian administrative units. Regional conditioning has been analysed based on the number of abortions per 100 labours and number of abortions among women in labour age (between 15 and 49 years of age). The article also discusses the activity of non-governmental women organisations which aim at providing medical information and participate in the family planning initiatives. Finally, the article presents the rules and conditions of allowing to perform abortion and significant changes in Russian legislation on that issue.

Keywords

EN

abortion; non-governmental women organisations; Russia; Soviet Union

• Publisher: Wydział Geografii i Studiów Regionalnych Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
• Journal: Miscellanea Geographica. Regional Studies on Development
• Year: 2004
• Volume: 11
• Pages: 217-228

Dates

published

2004

Contributors

author

Tomasz Wites

translator

Małgorzata Mikulska

References

• Abortion Policies - a Global Review, 2002, Vol. III, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division, United Nations, New York.
• Demograficheski Yezhegodnik Rossii [Demographic Yearbook of Russia; in Russian], 2001, Gosudarstvenni Komitet po Statistike, Moscow.
• Neravyenstvo i smertnost v Rossii [Inequality and Mortality in Russia; in Russian], 2000, Moskovski Centr Karnegi [Carnegie Centre Moscow], Moscow.
• S e m e n o v S.P., P e t r o v A.N., 2001, Demograficheski krizis w rayonakh rossiyskovo severa: istoki i geografiya [Demographic Crisis in the Northern Regions of Russian: Origins and Geography; in Russian], Izvestya Rossiyskovo Geograficheskovo Obshchestva [Newsletter of the Russian Geographical Society], vol. 133 (3).
• Z i e l i ń s k a E., 1990, Przerywanie ciąży. Warunki legalności w Polsce i na świecie [Abortion. Conditions of Legality in Poland and in the World; in Polish], Warszawa.

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