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“Russian authorities have made women's bodies a domestic "second front" of the
war, reviving Stalin-era controls over reproduction and private life, according
to the Feminist Anti-War Resistance, a leading Russian opposition movement.
The findings were detailed by Ukraine's Foreign Intelligence Service, which
published an account of the movement's annual research into women's rights
under repression and militarization on its official website on June 9.
According to the intelligence service, the campaign reflects a systematic
effort to seize control of women's reproductive choices to offset Russia's
battlefield losses and raise a new, disenfranchised workforce—a regression the
movement's researchers describe as a catastrophic return to the worst practices
of the Soviet past.
The service reported that Russia has effectively outlawed the public expression
of childfree views. Women now face heavy fines for discussing a wish not to
have children, or even for candid social-media accounts of difficult births or
postpartum depression, the account noted.
The Health Ministry, it added, has introduced mandatory questionnaires for
teenagers; a girl who indicates she does not currently want children is
referred to a psychologist for "corrective" counseling.
Citing the movement's research, the intelligence service stated that several
regions now offer payments to pregnant schoolgirls to encourage them to give
birth, despite polling showing that 74% of Russians oppose underage motherhood.
Authorities openly press the message that a woman's central purpose is to
abandon other goals and bear five to ten children, the report indicated.
The treatment of abortion has grown steadily more punitive, the movement
reported, with women already facing prosecution for terminating pregnancies.
The intelligence service noted that the Kremlin is working to scrub the
internet of information about safe abortion, replacing it with religious and
psychological services that pressure women to carry to term.
The war has also fueled a sharp rise in violence inside Russia itself, the
service warned. Reports of domestic abuse have climbed by more than half, a
trend the movement ties to the decriminalization of such offenses, which the
Orthodox Church has lobbied to entrench.”
Via Susan ****
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