The World - News from Jan. 20, 1989
Ninety percent of all first pregnancies in the Soviet Union end in abortion, and hundreds of women die each year as a result of the operation, the weekly Moscow News reported. An article by Yekaterina Nikolayeva, who recently had an abortion, said that women are treated as if they were on an assembly line, so routine has the operation become in Moscow. Official figures show that there are 8 million abortions a year in the Soviet Union, the highest rate in the world, according to the weekly publication Ogonyok.
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