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Valdosta

(331 posts) Fri Oct 20, 2023, 07:25 PM Oct 2023

Russia Tightens Controls Over Abortion Pill Sales

Russia Tightens Controls Over Abortion Pill Sales
Moscow Times

Russia’s Health Ministry will limit the distribution of abortion-inducing pills in pharmacies, in the country’s latest move to clamp down on abortion access.

Misoprostol and mifepristone have been added to the ministry’s list of medications subject to subject-quantitative registration (PKU), according to its decree published Tuesday.

The ministry's order will come into effect on Sept. 1, 2024, and will remain in force until Sept. 1, 2030.

Under this designation, patients will be required to obtain a doctor’s prescription in order to purchase either abortion drug. Pharmacies and hospitals will also be required to obtain a special license to distribute these drugs as well as report how many packages they have sold.

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More like our own Republicans than I thought.

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Russia Tightens Controls Over Abortion Pill Sales (Original Post) Valdosta Oct 2023 OP

I remember way back that the USSR treestar Oct 2023 #1

I think you are right. Long, long ago (pre-Roe) I read that both Nazi Germany & USSR... Hekate Oct 2023 #6

Lots of dead soldiers to replace. GreenWave Oct 2023 #2

The modern Republican is groomed and fed Putinese from Fox and RW radio. Hermit-The-Prog Oct 2023 #3

the US also requires a prescription for these meds... WarGamer Oct 2023 #4

Wow so with these new rules the Russians... AkFemDem Oct 2023 #5

Russia is worried about not enough births. Not about morals but numbers. keithbvadu2 Oct 2023 #7

They are losing a generation of young men so may be less need for it in the future. Bev54 Oct 2023 #8

Most countries regulate those 2 drugs leftstreet Oct 2023 #9

treestar

(82,383 posts)

1. I remember way back that the USSR

Reply to Valdosta (Original post)

Fri Oct 20, 2023, 07:26 PM

Oct 2023

had birth control pills over the counter, and even so, abortion was used as birth control.
I guess now they've changed to "we need more cannon fodder?"

Hekate

(100,133 posts)

6. I think you are right. Long, long ago (pre-Roe) I read that both Nazi Germany & USSR...

Reply to treestar (Reply #1)

Fri Oct 20, 2023, 08:25 PM

Oct 2023

…made abortion easy to get, but contraception very difficult. The reasoning was, according to the author, that the State could make abortion illegal any time it chose — such as when the State needed more population.