Russia and US - Abortions

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Let's give the word to wiki, first on Russia:

Despite a significant reduction in the abortion to birth ratio since the mid-1990s, the countries of the former Soviet Union maintain the highest rate of abortions in the world. In 2001, 1.31 million children were born in Russia, while 2.11 million abortions were performed.[33] In 2005, 1.6 million abortions were registered in Russia;[4] 20% of these involved girls under the age of 18.[34] Official statistics put the number at 737,948 in 2016.*

Then on United States:

By 2011, abortion rate in the nation dropped to its lowest point since the Supreme Court legalized the procedure. According to a study performed by Guttmacher Institute, long-acting contraceptive methods had a significant impact in reducing unwanted pregnancies. There were fewer than 17 abortions for every 1,000 women of child-bearing age. That was a 13%-decrease from 2008's numbers and slightly higher than the rate in 1973, when the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision legalized abortion. The study indicated a long-term decline in the abortion rate.[110][111][112][113]

In 2016, the CDC reported 623,471 abortions, a 2% decrease from 636,902 in 2015.[114]**

As some people are allergic to wikipedia, it can be noted that I will in the footnotes show the footnotes of the wikipedian articles.

Now, obviously Russia is worse than United States, but there is one thing more to it: in Russia, a young woman who gets pregnant is more likely to be pressured into abortion. Or, as some evil feminists would have it, less likely to be pressured not to have an abortion.

Teen mothers are better seen in US than in Russia.

Between 2000 and 2015, over 200,000 minors were legally married in the United States,[10] or roughly six children per thousand.[11] The vast majority of child marriages in the U.S. were between a minor girl and an adult man.[10][12][13] Most minors married were girls.[10] In many cases, minors in the U.S. may be married when they are under the age of sexual consent, which is 16 to 18 for most states.[14] In some states minors cannot legally divorce, leave their spouse, or enter a shelter to escape abuse.[15][16]***

One story features a rapist marrying his victim of 13 and her being pregnant.

In Czarist Russia, that could have happened too.

In Putin's Russia, well, the article "Child marriage in Russia" doesn't even exist in English wikipedia. Here is from another article:

The minimum marriageable age in Russia is 18 years old. However, in some regions, it is common practice for teens to marry before the age of 18. Some may even marry as young as 14 years of age. For instance, in Moscow, the legal marriageable age is 16 and in Bashkortostan, it is 14, with underage marriages in Chechnya as well. In recent years, the idea of child marriage in Russia has sparked legal and social disputes between various communities.

In 2015, Putin lowered the legal age of marriage to 14 in Bashkortostan. This dropped the age of consent for special circumstances like teen pregnancy. However, the number of marriages is reportedly rising as teen pregnancies are increasing. Moreover, the public has agreed to the lowering of the age of consent. This brings up the issue that lowering the age exploits children. The problem extends in regions across Russia that are predominately traditionalists in their views and do not have close monitoring like in the northern and southern Caucasus regions.°

I think it is a very good thing that Putin did so. However, I think it would be better if he did so all over the federation, and for girls even one year or two years lower. In many states of the US, including Florida, this is already so. Or actually, still so.

If at any given point 20 % of abortions in a very abortive country are due to the mother being under 18, arguably being against teen marriages is one of the problems leading to such high abortion rates.

Most of the sources wiki linked to were left leaning and as such against "child" marriage. It should be obvious, I am relying on them for hard facts, but disagreeing with that evaluation.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
6th day of Easter
9.IV.2021

Wikipedian links, and their footnotes, plus one other link:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_in_Russia

note 4
https://www.fedstat.ru/indicator/41696.do
https://web.archive.org/web/20150924011838/http://www.fedstat.ru/indicator/data.do?id=41696&referrerType=0&referrerId=946921

note 33
Заявление главного акушера и гинеколога России, директора Научного центра акушерства и гинекологии Владимира Кулакова [Statement by Chief of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Russia, Director of the Scientific Center for Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vladimir Kulakov] (in Russian). (no link given at present)

note 34
Marusina, Yevgeniya (23 August 2005). "Россияне вымирают из-за бесплодия и абортов" [Russians are dying out due to infertility and abortions]. utro.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 19 September 2015.
http://www.utro.ru/articles/2005/08/23/470519.shtml

** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_in_the_United_States

note 110
Somashekhar, Sandhya (February 2, 2014). "Study: Abortion rate at lowest point since 1973". Washington Post. Retrieved February 3, 2014.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/study-abortion-rate-at-lowest-point-since-1973/2014/02/02/8dea007c-8a9b-11e3-833c-33098f9e5267_story.html?hpid=z2

note 111
Moon, Angela (February 2, 2014). "U.S. abortion rate hits lowest level since 1973: study". Reuters. Retrieved February 3, 2014.
https://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/02/us-abortionrate-decline-idUSBREA110NV20140202

note 112
Bassett, Laura (February 2, 2014). "U.S. Abortion Rate Hits Lowest Point Since 1973". Huffington Post. Retrieved February 3, 2014.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/02/abortion-rate-_n_4704986.html

note 113
Jayson, Sharon (February 2, 2014). "Abortion rate at lowest level since 1973". USA Today. Retrieved February 3, 2014.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/02/02/abortion-recession-medication/5087945/

note 114
Jatlaoui, TC; Eckhaus, L; Mandel, MG; Nguyen, A; Oduyebo, T; Petersen, Emily; Whiteman, MK (November 29, 2019). "Abortion Surveillance — United States, 2016". MMWR. Surveillance Summaries. 68 (11): 1–41. doi:10.15585/mmwr.ss6811a1. ISSN 1546-0738. PMID 31774741.
https://doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.ss6811a1

*** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_marriage_in_the_United_States

note 10
Tsui, Anjali; Nolan, Dan; Amico, Chris (July 6, 2017). "Child Marriage in America: By the Numbers". Frontline. Retrieved September 17, 2017.
http://apps.frontline.org/child-marriage-by-the-numbers/

note 11
Koski, Alyssa (April 2018). "Child Marriage in the United States: How Common Is the Practice, And Which Children Are at Greatest Risk?: Child marriage in the United States". Perspectives on Sexual & Reproductive Health. 50 (2): 59–65. doi:10.1363/psrh.12055. PMID 29664190. S2CID 4896715.
https://doi.org/10.1363/psrh.12055

note 12
Baynes, Chris (July 8, 2017). "More than 200,000 children married in US over the last 15 years". The Independent. Retrieved October 24, 2017.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/200000-children-married-us-15-years-child-marriage-child-brides-new-jersey-chris-christie-a7830266.html

note 13
"Child marriage: Shocking statistics". Unchained At Last.
https://www.unchainedatlast.org/child-marriage-shocking-statistics/

note 14
Jeltsen, Melissa (August 30, 2017). "Grown Men Are Exploiting Loopholes In State Laws To Marry Children". Huffington Post. Retrieved September 19, 2018.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/child-marriage-state-laws_us_59a5e70ee4b00795c2a27e19

note 15
Amanda Parker (October 24, 2017). "Worse than Weinstein is the exploitation of Florida girls". Sun-Sentinel. Retrieved November 4, 2017.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/opinion/commentary/fl-op-viewpoint-florida-child-marriage-20171024-story.html

note 16
Nicholas Kristof, "An American 13-Year-Old, Pregnant and Married to Her Rapist", New York Times, June 1, 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/01/opinion/sunday/child-marriage-delaware.html

° https://borgenproject.org/child-marriage-in-russia/