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Openly defending one’s decision not to have children will be prosecuted in Russia. The State Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament, is preparing a bill under which authorities will impose fines of up to €50,000 ($55,580) for supporting “the refusal to have children.” The measure affects all areas of life — from casual conversation to films and books — and is a serious threat to the Russian feminist movement.
The crackdown on what the Kremlin calls the “childfree” movement will result in fines of up to 400,000 rubles for individuals (around $4,300), 800,000 rubles for civil servants ($8,600), and up to five million rubles ($55,580) for companies or other legal entities. Foreigners will also be deported.
There are thousands of reasons why a person may decide not to have children, but the Cabinet of ministers has asked the State Duma to make only three exceptions to the law: religious reasons, medical reasons or in the case of rape. It also alleges that there is a mass-organized childfree movement, even though the websites on this subject are little more than a curiosity; Russian newspapers cite the existence of groups on VKontakte, the Russian Facebook, which barely have 5,000 members.
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- Hirom ( @Hirom@beehaw.org ) 4•8 hours ago
fines of up to €50,000 ($55,580) for supporting “the refusal to have children.”
I’m sure the law is absolutely consistent and grant the right to adopt to gay couples, right? Right?
- 4th_Times_A_Charm ( @4th_Times_A_Charm@sopuli.xyz ) 5•8 hours ago
Not very different from red State abortion laws. They want your kids for the orphan crushing machine.
- sunzu2 ( @sunzu2@thebrainbin.org ) 1•6 hours ago
always have been