YOU WANT WAR — YOU GIVE BIRTH(Сам воюешь — сам рожай), 2025 Street intervention (mixed media) opposite the Consulate General of the Russian Federation in Stockholm This street action appeared on 10 December 2025 — the final day of the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence and International Human Rights Day. We placed it … YOU WANT WAR — YOU GIVE BIRTH
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
Over the past two decades, Russia has seen an uptick in policies limiting access to abortion. Several new measures were introduced in 2023, including stricter regulation of medical abortion drugs, laws imposing liability for ‘inducement to abort’ in the Republic of Mordovia and Tver Oblast, and some private clinics’ refusal to offer abortions in certain … Protecting life from conception: The Russian Orthodox Church’s anti-abortion rhetoric as part of a global traditionalist agenda