A reason to give birth

Abbreviations gave women a chance to do family

Are women afraid to give birth in conditions of economic instability? Search Internet systems testify-yes. The number of requests from the word "abortion" in recent months has increased by tens of times. However, official departments do not provide such statistics. What really happens - found The New Times

“The crisis directly affects the situation of women. It is most reflected in large mothers, women, alone raising children, young mothers and pregnant women, ”Senator Petrenko, Chairman of the Committee on Social Policy and Healthy, said the recently at a meeting of the Public Commission under the chairman of the Federation Council and Equal opportunities in Russia. - The risk of losing work is mainly associated with the pregnancy and raising of young children. Future mothers or women who managed to become young mothers, as a rule, are the first to fall under reduction. - According to statistics, the number of abortions has increased significantly in the country - 20 times over the past four months. At this pace, the developing crisis can negate all the efforts made by the government in recent years to stimulate the birth rate. ”

Different stories in one of the women's consultations of the Eastern Administrative District of Moscow cannot be pushed. Pregnant women are sitting on benches. Mostly young, up to 30 years. A pair of strollers stands nearby, and it is obvious that for many future children are not the first in the family. “It was very interesting for us: in early December, I, like many, were fired, and a week later I found out that I was already pregnant for almost four weeks. The question of whether to give birth or not, did not even stand, ”says 27-year-old Elena Karpova. - The husband hesitated a little, but I explained to him that since I am now unemployed, you can save on the nanny. I will sit at home, prepare for childbirth and educate the first child. ” The son of Lena is now 3.5 years old. They thought about starting a second child before, but all the time was postponed precisely because of the employment of both parents. And in a crisis, the problem was solved, albeit in a radical way. “If I had not been fired, maybe I would not have decided yet. And then the circumstances have developed, ”Lena summarizes. It looks happy with the already quite formed belly.

But not everyone was so lucky. In the same institution, they make mini-abortions when the gestational age does not exceed five weeks. The women sometimes come to these doors not alone, with husbands. And they categorically do not want to talk. Nevertheless, The New Times managed to chat with a young woman who had to get rid of the child because of financial difficulties that arose at the end of the year-now she goes to the doctor to make sure that everything is fine with her. “I am 23, my husband and I met from school, he is 3 years older than me, and got married in the fall,” says Catherine. - After the New Year, they were going to travel with my parents, take a mortgage loan, make repairs and get a child. In February, both were fired. And at the same time I became pregnant. It turned out stupidly, did not calculate. " Since it was not possible to get your own housing, but the couple did not dare to give birth without permanent income and living with her parents, Katya went to do an abortion. “The husband was very worried and doubted more than me. We found pregnancy early enough, and I gave him two weeks to find a job. He could not, so he had to abandon the idea to give birth, ”she says. “Now we have recovered a little, we interrupted by random earnings, but we believe that everything will cost - and we will still have a baby.”

Svyat the crisis of reliable data on an increase in the number of abortion or, conversely, a decrease does not exist. On the website of the Ministry of Health in 2008, once every 2-3 months, statistics were published, now this is not. The department, however, offered to contact them with an official request, but they did not guarantee the result. The New Times, the Moscow Health Committee, said they did not conduct such monitoring. The New Times reported that they did not observe any sharp bursts in the Evromeda Clinic. “The fact is that a lot of abortions are done semi -official, in private clinics of varying degrees of“ levis ”. Sometimes even on anonymous conditions. They are found on ads in newspapers, on the Internet. Women are often not even registered in state institutions, ”the doctor of one of the Moscow female consultations told The New Times on the basis of anonymity. Officially, she has no right to give such comments. The New Times told the doctor of the history of Elena and Catherine and asked which one is more relevant in crisis. “Personally, I do not observe some extraordinary increase in abortion. According to my data, there are about the same as it was a year ago. But the story of Elena is now very typical. Many of my patients say that they were fired, so they decided to engage in their family more and leave the crisis of the house, ”the doctor summed up. Thus, it is too early to talk about the demographic crisis in Russia. But this problem, according to Rosstat, can become relevant in less than 2 years, when an active reproductive age will reach a generation of those who were born in the early 90s, when the birth rate in the country fell by 25%.