“I don’t have the strength to bear two children a year”: how Soviet women asked to lift the abortion ban
In 1920, the USSR became the first country to legalize abortions at the request of a woman, but four years later the right to abortion was limited, and in 1936 there came out a decree banning abortions altogether. In this article, gender researcher Sasha Talaver tells how the abortion ban in the USSR affected women. … “I don’t have the strength to bear two children a year”: how Soviet women asked to lift the abortion ban
