more dead than alive

[cmotherofpirl]

More Abortions Than Births in Russia — Health Official
Created: 23.08.2005 14:23 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 14:25 MSK


MosNews


Russians, whose lives are shorter and poorer than they were under communism, have more abortions than births to avoid the costs of raising children, Bloomberg.com reported Tuesday quoting the country’s highest-ranking obstetrician.

About 1.6 million women had an abortion last year, a fifth of them under the age of 18, and about 1.5 million gave birth, said Vladimir Kulakov, vice president of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences. “Many more” abortions weren’t reported.

“The appearance of a first child pushes many families into poverty,” Kulakov said today in the government’s official newspaper, Rossiskaya Gazeta. “Potential parents first try to start a career, stand on their feet and so forth.”

The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the ensuing hyperinflation and depression deprived millions of Russians of their incomes and savings and discouraged couples from having children. By 2000, the number of pensioners in Europe’s most populous country outnumbered children and adolescents for the first time.

The increase in poverty and the decline in the quality of health care since the fall of communism have left about six million women and 4 million men — seven percent of Russia’s 145 million people — incapable of having children.

“This is a critical level,” Kulakov said.

Part of the problem is a lack of job prospects. Careers traditionally favored by Russian women, such as in education and medicine, no longer pay a decent salary, which leads to fewer births and ultimately a smaller population, Kulakov said.

For every 1,000 Russians there are 16 deaths and just 10.6 births, a gap that isn’t being filled by immigrants, leading to a population decline of about 750,000 to 800,000 a year.

Out of every 1,000 Russian newborn babies, more than 12 die before they are one year old, an infant mortality rate five times higher than in Iceland and three to four times higher than in Finland, Sweden, Spain and France, Russia’s Federal Statistics Service reported last week.

The average Russian man now dies at 58.8, the shortest life expectancy in Europe and five years fewer than 15 years ago, the Statistics Service said. Russian women have the fourth-lowest life expectancy in Europe, 72 years, the service said, citing its own data and figures from the World Health Organization and European Union.

[Didacus]

[url="http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/policy/abortion/ab-russia.html"]http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/policy/abo.../ab-russia.html[/url]

If you would like to have a 'bigger' picture of the abortion situation in Russia.

The article might not make proper justice to the tendency of the situation. You be the judge.


Isn't the culture of death fun! sometimes I'd wish they'd get it over with and die out already so we could carry on living in peace.

[avemaria40]

that's sad i remember Mother Angelica said on an episode of Mother Angelica Live that it isn't uncommon for women in Russia to end up having eight abortions

[hierochloe]

[quote name='avemaria40' date='Aug 26 2005, 10:27 AM']that's sad    i remember Mother Angelica said on an episode of Mother Angelica Live that it isn't uncommon for women in Russia to end up having eight abortions
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I didn't know a woman's body could safely endure that many abortion procedures. Abstinence anybody?

Edited August 26, 2005 by hierochloe

[morostheos]

Russia needs prayers.

[Quietfire]

Question....
It isnt directly involved with this subject (sorry Cmom) but since Russia still needs prayers -and who doesnt ! - I am wondering if the last letter from Fatima was made public (there were, if I remember correctly, three or four letters written by one of the children as instructed by Mary)
I know the Pope has read it, but I dont know if it became public information yet.

Pax

[Cathurian]

For the sake of His Sorrowful Passion, have mercy on us and the entire world.

Lord God, please help all those poor families in Russia, and the dead children, and the poor living children, and all those in hardship. Mother Mary and all you angels and saints please pray for them.

[journeyman]

amen

[Norseman82]

I've heard a horrific story that women athletes in Russia would get pregnant because the hormones of early pregnancy acted as a performance enhancer and later when the competition was over they would abort.

[homeschoolmom]

[got2luvjc]

so many brothers and sisters in Christ we have lost through abortion...