Also, a copy of the appeal (available to RT) was sent to the head of the State Duma Committee on Health Protection Dmitry Khubezov.
According to the Children's Ombudsman, one of the priorities of the state's policy, among other things, is comprehensive assistance in increasing the birth rate.
"The preservation and improvement of the reproductive health of the population plays a significant role in increasing the birth rate and reducing infant mortality. And one of the leading factors that negatively affect reproductive health, leading to impaired reproductive function, infertility, and the occurrence of gynecological diseases in women, is abortion," Volynets added.
Today, the abortion procedure is carried out both in private and in state, municipal medical organizations, including under the compulsory medical insurance system, she recalled.
"Carrying out the abortion procedure only within the framework of compulsory medical insurance will make it possible to strengthen control over their implementation ... In addition, it will allow each abortion procedure to be taken into account, which will ensure reliable abortion statistics. Private clinics do not always provide data on pregnancies terminated in them, which significantly distorts the statistics," said the Commissioner for Children's Rights of Tatarstan.
With the implementation of the initiative, she believes, the Ministry of Health will be able to replace quotas for private clinics for abortion with quotas for other services. Ultimately, this measure will improve the reproductive health of women and protect the child's right to life. And this is in the interests of the demographic policy of the state, the Ombudsman emphasized.
"I ask you to support the initiative and develop a bill according to which the procedure of artificial termination of pregnancy will be carried out only under the system of compulsory medical insurance," the appeal says.
Earlier, the chairman of the Patriarchal Commission on Family, Protection of Motherhood and Childhood, Priest Fyodor Lukyanov, said that the structure headed by him proposed to legally prohibit a married woman from artificially terminating a pregnancy at will without the consent of her husband.