“Abortions per thousand women of childbearing age in 2018: the Jewish Autonomous Oblast — 35.6, the Republic of Tyva — 34.5, the Sakhalin Oblast — 32.2,” the collection notes.
The least abortions in 2018 were done in the republics of Ingushetia and Dagestan, as well as in Moscow.
In April, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova said that more than 750 thousand abortions were recorded annually in the country. She also added that at the present time “the primary age of a first-time mother is 25–34 years.
In January, State Duma deputy Vitaly Milonov, in an interview with Channel Five, proposed equating abortion with murder.