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Patriarch Kirill proposes stripping private clinics of right to receive female patients for abortions
http://www.interfax-religion.com/?act=news&div=16551My comments: Russia had at least 1 abortion for every 1 birth over the last 30 years(at the very conservative estimate).
Russia's population is 146 million. Russian births and deaths since 1990.
Births 1990-2020: 46.9 million
Deaths 1990-2020: 61.5 million
If it is merely 1 abortion for 1 birth over the last 30 years, then Russia would have an extra 46.9 million people. Actually more than that, because that is 30 years so some of those kids would have become adults and be having children now.
Meanwhile Ukraine is 41 million people. Russia wouldn't have needed to try to conquer Ukraine to add 41 million people - Russia would have added more than that itself. An these aren't mutually exclusive goals. When you have twice the young men, it makes conquering somewhere else a hell of a lot easier.
No surprise the Moscow authorities are figuring this out now that they are in huge trouble in war. But it shows how stupid they were in the past. If I was Putin the birth rate would have been my number 1 priority for rebuilding Russia, from day 1 starting on midnight Dec 31, 1999 when he came to power.