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Birth Control Policies and Abortion Issues in Post-Communist Russia

Ch. 5. P. 85–97.
Victoria Sakevich, Denisov B.

The chapter analyses the activities of the Russian Parliament and Federal Government concerning the right to induced abortion, which has become actively debated over the last three decades.

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Keywords: абортыreproductive healthрепродуктивное здоровьерепродуктивные праваreproductive rightsabortions
Publication based on the results of:
Spatial measurement of demographic dynamics in Russia: long-term and short-term changes in the diversity of human reproduction regimes, migration and demographic structures of the population at the regional level (2022)

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Debates Around Abortion in the Global North. Europe, North America, Russia and Asia
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