Posted on 05/06/2015 6:57:11 AM PDT by NRx
MOSCOW, May 5, 2015 (LifeSiteNews.com) –A bill to defund abortions on demand failed miserably in the Russian Duma late last month, but pro-life leaders such as Dmitry Baranov of the Warriors for Life have not given up hope.
Politics are different in Russia, and the bill's striking defeat – only 11 deputies out of 450 voted for it – reflects not so much the will of the Duma, nor the government led by Prime Minister Dimitry Medvedev, but the circumstances of the day.
“We should understand that the deputies in Russia are not independent and the decisions are not made in parliament,” Baranov told LifeSiteNews.com via e-mail. “Decisions are made in the presidential administration. Pro-life law could be passed by parliament if it is the will of the country's leadership.”
The government is perceived as pro-life – the prime minister’s wife, Svetlana Medvedeva, ardently so. The government’s reasons, as summarized in a 2011 report by the pro-abortion Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS) are twofold: first, it is in a close, nationalistic alliance with the Russian Orthodox Church, which opposes abortion for moral reasons.
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Remember, at it’s core, Russia is still a Communist country.
It’s still a country of soulless drunken reprobates.
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