Today, Russia has the highest abortion rate in the world at 53.7 per
1,000 women between the ages of 15 and 44—a rate even higher
than that in China (which has more total abortions).446
• Fr. Daniel Maurer, C.J.D., who spent eight years in Russia, says that
statistically, the average Russian woman will have eight abortions
during her childbearing years—though Fr. Maurer believes the actual
number averaged out to be about 12 abortions per woman. He has
spoken to women who have had as many as 25 abortions. A major
reason for these dreadful figures is that other contraception methods
(which are immoral anyway) have not been introduced in Russia, nor
are they trusted. This leaves abortion as the “cheapest way to limit
the family size.”447
• In Russia, abortions are free, but childbirth is not.448
• The Russian birth rate is plummeting and Russia’s population is
dropping at the rate of 700,000 people each year—an unprecedented
event in a civilized nation during “peacetime.”449
• Russia has the highest per capita rate of alcohol consumption in the
world.450
• ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖity is rampant in Moscow and throughout the country.
In fact, in April 1993, nine years after the 1984 “consecration”, Boris
Yeltsin allowed ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖity to be de-criminalized. ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖity
is now “legal” in Russia.451
• Russia is a leading world center for the distribution of child pornography. The Associated Press reported on a Moscow-based
child pornography ring linked to another child pornography ring
in Texas. To quote AP: “Russian law does not distinguish between
child pornography and pornography involving adults, and treats the
production and distribution of either as a minor crime, said Dmitry
Chepchugov, head of the Russian Interior Ministry’s department for
high technology crimes. Russian police often complain about the
legal chaos that has turned Russia into an international center of
child pornography production. ‘Unfortunately, Russia has turned into
a world trash bin of child pornography,’ Chepchugov told reporters in
Moscow.”452
• Russians are addicted to grossly immoral “reality-based” TV. On the
vilest of the “reality-based” shows, cameras film the intimate personal
lives of Russian “couples,” including their activity of breaking the
6th Commandment. Despite grumbles of disapproval from old
hard-line Communists, Russian viewers “cannot get enough” of this
pornography. The program “boasts an audience share of more than
50% and thousands of Russians have endured sub-zero temperatures
and stood in line for more than an hour to catch a glimpse of it
through a window of the apartment. Millions have logged on to the
website, which has crashed frequently under the weight of the heavy
traffic.”453
A “moral conversion” of Russia? Hardly—unless one means a
conversion to immorality leaving Russia even worse off morally than
before the 1984 ceremony.