Russian Women Average 6 Abortions

America is a few generations away from this culture of death that exist in Russia. The more government in our lives taking away the responsibility of life from its citizens the more we Americans which have always had the highest regard for life will find ourselves slipping into this sick culture. The lose of freedom in America will just further along this culture of death attitude and will destroy everything sacred this country was founded on. I was shocked to learn how high the abortion rate was in Russia. Neil


Written by Selwyn Duke

Sad though it is, man has seldom had much trouble killing his youngest fellows. If the ancient Spartans perceived any imperfection in a child, for instance, they would “expose” him, which amounted to leaving the child somewhere, perhaps a hillside, to die.

Of course, while not all civilizations held their offspring to the strict standards of the Spartans, infanticide was common in the pagan world. Despite this, it’s hard to imagine an ancient society that murdered its young on the magnitude of the modern world with its abortion-on-demand culture. And in this modern world, the culture of death is nowhere more intense than in Russia.

This is one of the facts we learn in the DVD documentary Killing Girls, a work about the lives of Russian women and, something that occurs all too often, the deaths of their unborn children. The documentary presents the stories of Anna Sirota, the narrator of the work, and three girls, Valya, 15; Nastja, 17; and Sasha, 16; all of whom had abortions. It also features the Family and Reproduction Center (such places are always euphemistically named, aren’t they?) in St. Petersburg, Russia, which offers late-term abortions to teenage girls.

While these women’s stories are tragic, more tragic still is that they’re far from unusual. Killing Girls tells us that, staggeringly, 80 percent of Russian women have between two and 10 abortions each. Moreover, many of these are performed late-term, despite the fact that the government offers free abortion up to 12 weeks gestation. This is because older girls often counsel the younger ones to wait beyond 20 weeks, with the reasoning that induced abortion is better for their health than the surgical variety. If waiting is a problem, it might only be because it’s the only way their parents will discover their condition, given that the law allows girls 15 and older to get abortions without parental consent.

The documentary portrays well the harshness of Russian life, something reflected in both the people’s moral and monetary poverty. The girls in question live a hardscrabble existence in a drab post-communist environment and have few resources, a factor that encourages them to abort their children. As for morals, when Sirota got married at 19 years of age, her grandmother told her, “If you get pregnant, get an abortion.” This callous attitude was illustrated perhaps even better by Sasha’s experience at the abortion center: when she cries in pain while attempting to birth her aborted baby, attending physician Dr. Irina Serdechnaja — who also figures prominently in the documentary — says, “Why are you crying?... If you don’t want my help, do it yourself.” And this seems to typify the Siberian-winter bedside manner of the abortionists. Of course, I suppose it would be incongruous if people involved in such a dark trade acted otherwise.

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