Brave new world

In Russia doctors officially carry out about 4 million abortions per year, more than the number of children actually born. Russia women have an average of 7 abortions in the course of their fertile period, while 17 is not an uncommon figure. In Russia abortion is still the most important form of birth control.The doctors in abortion clinic number 6 in Moscow talk about this operation as if it were the pulling of a tooth. They work in shifts, for a meager wage, carrying out abortions non-stop. The corridor outside the registration office is full of women every morning. They show their identity cards, pay and may then go upstairs for the operation. It is carried out without anesthetic. There are, on average, three women a day with late abortions: their fetus is up to 26 weeks old.At the Institute for Biological Medicine in southern Moscow a mother does not have to pay for the abortion as long as she donates her fetus for “scientific purposes”. The Institute uses human fetuses for tissue transplants. Ethical objections are secondary to the consideration that there is now no way back. In the East an amoral new world is dawning.