The Legislative Assembly of the Vologda Region adopted a regional law on fines for “inducement.” The corresponding document was published on the website of the local parliament. The publication “Takie Dela” drew attention to this.
According to the law, “inclination” to artificially terminate a pregnancy in the Vologda region is “recognized as a threat to the family, paternity, motherhood and childhood.”
The term “inducement” will be understood as “forcing a pregnant woman to have an artificial abortion through persuasion, proposals, bribery and deception.” In this case, the recommendations of doctors will not be considered “inclination”. The amount of fines will be determined later.
The law states that the Vologda region “prevents the spread of destructive ideologies, the inculcation of a system of ideas and values that is alien to the Russian people and destructive to Russian society, including the cultivation of selfishness, permissiveness, immorality, and the denial of the natural continuation of life.” The document was submitted for consideration by the acting governor of the region, Georgy Filimonov.
Fines for “inducing” abortions were previously introduced in Mordovia, Tver, Pskov, Kaliningrad, Kursk and Novgorod regions. Their sizes vary from 3 to 10 thousand rubles for citizens and from 30 to 200 thousand rubles for legal entities.
Against the background of proposals from deputies and officials to limit the reproductive rights of women, private clinics in the Chelyabinsk, Lipetsk and Kursk regions, Tatarstan and annexed Crimea began to voluntarily refuse to perform abortions. Pickets against the ban on abortion were held in Kazan on December 10.
Interruption of the right to the body. The authorities in Russia are consistently making access to abortion more difficult, but for now they are trying to do without an outright ban.