The Patriarchal Commission on family matters, protection of motherhood and childhood proposed to impose a moratorium on abortion in Russia at the outbreak of coronavirus.
The proposal said the Executive Secretary of the Commission, the priest Fyodor Lukyanov. He insists that abortion is a routine operation and is not considered a medical procedure.
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Based on this, the Russian Orthodox Church believe that women with an unwanted pregnancy should be deprived of the right to abortion to prevent the spread of infection among staff and family members.
Lukyanov notes that from bortirovki must give up not only public but also private clinics, writes “RIA Novosti”.
Previously on the portal Change.org there was a petition to address Minzdrava against the ban of abortion for the period of the adopted quarantine measures in Russia.
“a Refusal to carry out abortions argue the decision on the postponement of the planned operations, which does not pose a threat to life and health of the patient. In the case of abortion this formulation sounds absurd, because the smaller the period of unwanted pregnancy, the safer it is to interrupt it” — explain the authors of the petition.
Along with this, opponents of the approach of the Russian Orthodox Church note that it is not studied how the fetus is affected by the incidence of COVID-19. The health Ministry has already confirmed that pregnancy and childbirth in the midst of the incidence of coronavirus are associated with high risks of maternal mortality.
