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illegal abortions in Russia
Although on paper the abortions are not banned in Russia, the healthcare system is very poorly designed: there are lots of barriers for women trying to get this procedure done. Due to lack of sex-ed, stigma and high poverty rates many women have to choose illegal ways to get an abortion.
"Galina Dikke's paper indicates that in the Kemerovo region introducing medical abortion into the Statutory Health Insurance in 2009 lead to the number of criminal abortions decreasing 15 times (45 cases against 3)"
