The deputy supported the idea of ​​issuing incentives to doctors if a woman refuses an abortion

“We need to take measures to increase the birth rate. Of course, when a woman becomes pregnant, she herself makes the decision whether to give birth to a child or not to give birth. This is the inalienable right of the woman herself. But if, for medical reasons, she can give birth to a child, then (it is necessary. -

) to convince her that this needs to be done. Therefore, the state is taking a number of measures to provide financial incentives and recreate the atmosphere that a large family is good,” said Tumusov.

The parliamentarian called the proposal to reward a doctor who convinced a woman of the need to continue her pregnancy a good measure.

“This is a good measure that encourages doctors to carry out such work and, naturally, is necessary for the country. But here it is necessary to carefully determine the line that it was the doctor who convinced (the patient to continue the pregnancy. -

), and then make a payment. We need to consider it in more detail, and this measure could actually be applied,” concluded RT’s interlocutor.

Earlier, the Commissioner for Children's Rights in the Republic of Tatarstan, founder of the National Parental Committee, Irina Volynets, proposed considering the development of a federal regulation providing for the issuance of a Bethlehem certificate to medical workers in the amount of the cost of termination of pregnancy in each case of a change in the decision in favor of the birth of a child.

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