Private clinics in 14 Russian regions have completely abandoned abortion procedures.

The list includes the Vologda, Kursk, Kurgan, Lipetsk, Magadan, and Tver regions, Adygea, Buryatia, Ingushetia, Karachay-Cherkessia, Mordovia, Tuva, the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, and annexed Crimea, said the chairman of the Patriarchal Commission on Family Issues, Priest Fedor Lukyanov. 

"Commercial institutions have made the decision to favor life voluntarily," Lukyanov assured. "We know that work with private clinics on abortion restrictions is underway in more than 40 other regions of the Russian Federation."

The priest also supported the governor's previously announced plans. Smolensk region Vasily Anokhin The official proposed transferring all abortions in the region to state-run medical facilities the day before.

In Russia, an active campaign is underway to restrict women's rights to abortion. The Ministry of Health has issued anti-abortion recommendations, according to which doctors should use verbal slogans that encourage women to keep their babies. 

In October, the Russian Public Chamber held a "zero reading" of a bill banning coercion into abortion, proposing a fine. up to xnumx thousand rubles. Similar bans have already been established at the regional level in 25 regions. 

However, maternity hospitals and primary care in their local areas are not available to all pregnant women in the country. In early September, a maternity hospital in the city was closed. Gus-Khrustalny — patients have to travel to Vladimir. And in mid-August, the hospital and maternity hospital were closed in the Moscow region Mytishchi.