Duma miscarriage

Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets did not support the idea of ​​withdrawing abortions from the compulsory medical insurance system. “The fact is that, of course, a woman’s health is, first of all,” the officials reports Interfax. “And here we cannot go to such extreme measures.”

“You can convince a woman to change her attitude to pregnancy if you apply a number of steps, social measures, and sometimes you need to support people a little from a material point of view,” Golodets added.

The bill on the removal of abortions from the compulsory medical insurance system was submitted on May 19 to the State Duma of the Directorate Elena Mizulina and a number of deputies from "Fair Russia" and "United Russia". The same document obliges abortion only in state clinics.

A bill was also introduced prohibiting the retail sale of funds for artificial termination of pregnancy. Another document provides that pregnant women will be invited to undergo an ultrasound examination before issuing a referral for abortion to visualize the fetus and its heartbeat or listening to the fetal heartbeat.

On Wednesday, the Speaker of the Council of Council Valentina Matvienko described the proposals of deputies as "extremist" . The implementation of these initiatives, warned Matvienko, could turn into an increase in the number of illegal abortions with mortal outcomes.