The proposed law text is posted on the Vkontakte page of a church in Severodvinsk. Churches in Novodvinsk and Arkhangelsk are also collecting signatures aimed at the regional assembly to take action and adopt a new anti-abortion law.

It should not be allowed to propagate abortion, and it should not be allowed to assist with termination of pregnancy anywhere in the Arkhangelsk region, the proposed law text suggest.

In social media, the church has posted a banner of an unborn baby side-by-side with a young child dressed up in combat uniform:

“Protect me today, I can protect you tomorrow. Abortion is murder,” the text reads.

Russia’s intensified campaigns against abortion follows Vladimir Putin’s decision to declare 2024 “the Year of the Family.”

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    10 hours ago

    Orthodox Church at it. Again.

    For context: unlike USSA, here in former USSR country banning abortions is VERY unpopular, I don’t think any amount of yachts can achieve this. Their real goal seeme to be removal of abortion from goverment clinics.

    Russia’s intensified campaigns against abortion follows Vladimir Putin’s decision to declare 2024 “the Year of the Family.”

    Nah, they were doing long before.