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_ Muscovites sent referrals for fertility tests.  __ Authorities believe that the test will encourage women to think about having children _

19:14, 13 September 2024, Source: The Insider, translated from the exiled publication Meduza

Moscow residents have begun to be invited en masse to take an anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH) test, which is prescribed to assess fertility, The Insider and  Msk1.ru reported , citing their readers.

Women under 38 years of age living in different areas of Moscow received referrals through the mos.ru and Unified Medical Information and Analytical System (EMIAS) services.

“I have already interviewed 20 people, found one Muscovite, 37 years old, with one child, who does not have a referral,” one of the Moscow residents, who gave birth to a child six months ago, told The Insider. She also received a referral for testing. “It came. But there was no accompanying notification, why, for what reason,” a reader wrote to Msk1.ru.

The Moscow Health Department explained the mass mailing of referrals as part of a pregnancy planning project designed for women aged 18 to 40 with permanent registration in the capital. Thanks to the study, officials said, Muscovites “will be able to understand whether there is a time reserve or whether it is necessary to plan children as early as possible.”

“If the level of egg reserves is reduced, the woman will be invited to the Women’s Health Center or women’s consultation and offered a full range of necessary measures so that she becomes the mother of a healthy child,” the Department of Health stated. Among such measures is the opportunity to preserve eggs free of charge using cryopreservation.

Commenting on the program, Deputy Mayor for Social Development Anastasia Rakova said that in Moscow, the average age of a woman at the time of the birth of her first child is approaching 29 years. According to her, many Muscovites postpone having a child because of their careers, and sometimes “medical indications are to blame.” Although Moscow medicine can “ensure safe pregnancy management, childbirth, and care for a newborn in almost any situation,” the official believes that it is “important for women to know and understand their specific capabilities.” 

Background:

In April, Medvestnik  (popular official medical journal) reported that the Russian Ministry of Health sent recommendations to the regions on screening to assess the reproductive health of Russians. The authors proposed examining men and women aged 18–49 for fertility.

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I’m sure there is an argument here, somewhere. Or only suggestive innuendo.

See, “in Putin’s Russia”, we want to increase the birthrate to offset the declining population, numbers essential to the conquest of Europe. Close? ;}

A non-starter for an OP, unless Russian women will be not “encouraged to think about having children” but somehow actually forced to bear children and abortion is about to be banned. Or do you have more articles, proof of Russia’s repression of citizens and suchlike? I guess Russia too is statist, unsurprisingly. The growing statism of the European Union is more concerning to me, if not to you.

 

 

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8 hours ago, whYNOT said:

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Specific objections, or go away Î

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In the US a referrals are mainly sought after, needed ‘steps’ to progress from standard general practitioner medicine to more specialized care while staying kosher within the payment systems for care. 
 

Does it mean something ‘less’ voluntary in Russia? Does this mean women are be ‘summoned’ for treatment? In the US if something like the CDC sent a general notice of availability of treatment to a specific demographic or even somehow o targeted individuals , it wouldn’t carry any penalty to just ignore the notice. 
 

Is this situation in Russia an example of a rights violating program involving healthcare , because it seems on the face to be a healthcare program directed at investigating fertility rates , a topic that seems to under more scrutiny ie all the current stories claiming noticeable declines in what were considered higher historic baselines.

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2 hours ago, AlexL said:

Specific objections, or go away Î

Specific argumentation, or take what comes! 

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Russian Population

“And God bless the inventors of the Pill.” –AR October 1968

US Immigrant Birthrates.) – We need young people for payments into Social Security, frankly.

China Raises Retirement Age

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Valentina Matvienko: “childfree movement”** should be banned by law**

[A small step forward toward more abortion restrictions…]

08:58, 18 September 2024

Source: Izvestia

In an interview with the Izvestia newspaper, Russian Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matviyenko  stated that she is in favor of a legislative ban on the “childfree movement” (voluntary refusal to have children – Meduza’s note) . 

Matviyenko mentioned childfree movement after Izvestia asked her about women’s struggle for equality. In her opinion, feminism was initially based on “a good idea - to fight for women’s equality.” But in the West, according to Matviyenko, feminism “degenerated, radicalized” and became “militant.”  

This has turned into a confrontation and movement “against men”, “against traditional values”. Now it is also about some genders, of which more than fifty have been invented. Or, say, the childfree movement, which, in my opinion, should be banned by law. So the original meaning has long lost all relevance and does not correspond to the current agenda of women’s expectations.

Background:

  • In September 2022, a bill was introduced to the State Duma to ban the dissemination of information among minors that promotes voluntary refusal to have children. The explanatory note to the document stated that “supporters of the childfree ideology disseminate ideas that form the basis of destructive social behavior based on voluntary refusal to have children, which runs counter to traditional family values and state policy of the Russian Federation.” In March 2023, the bill was withdrawn from consideration in the State Duma.
  • Since mid-November, the Russian State Duma has been considering Patriarch Kirill’s initiative to ban abortions in private clinics at the federal level.
  • In December 2023, the Kursk Regional Duma adopted a bill banning the “inducement” of women to have abortions. It proposes a ban on the “propaganda” of abortions and the childfree lifestyle, such as “aggressive information” about it on social networks.
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_ Mini street interviews, Moscow, September 2024 _

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmIW9pYU6Ts