Russia's Duma recieves proposal to push prisoners into having babies

[Model35mech]

The old empire has not only fallen apart and lost many of it's "republiks", its population is also shrinking.
This is a problem Putin has addressed previously with incentives for poor families and families with more than 2 children.

Now, a member of the Duma wants female prisoners to produce the needed babies. She also wants female parolees to have babies, and if they do not, she proposes the be forced back into prison to serve out the totality of their sentences.

I will say here that I have not been afan of Margaret Atwood's Handmaids Tale, mostly because for me it fails one of the standard tests of fantasy ans sci-fic... does the story help me suspend my disbelief and get deeper into the story.

I will now need to reconsider, because it seems members of the Duma have decided to model policy on Atwood's book.

reference:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russia-wants-female-prisoners-to-give-birth-as-population-fears-grow/ar-AA1k6nZr?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=07babad450c74434ab0ca8e4949deb7c&ei=52

[Sanity Claws]

1. How are the female prisoners supposed to get pregnant?

Rape? Forced prostitution?
Russia really has lost all morals.

[Model35mech]

2. Technically, I'd guess with sperm

I have no idea where it would come from...

Producing good little Nazi's was the goal of the "Lebensborn" program, it fell back on SS soldiers as the source of sperm.

I have little doubt the Wagner Group could provide the sperm, but undoubtedly there is something like Spetznaz still present in Russia so that the new program could follow a fascist model.

[Gaugamela]

3. Forced pregnancy and forced birth should be defined as sex trafficking and slavery,

if it isn’t already.