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Duma to ban abortion ads

April 24, 2008
Moscow News Weekly

Russian lawmakers are taking another stab at advertisers, this time in an attempt to ban abortion ads in the media. Earlier this month The Moscow News reported on a bill targeting advertising of the occult. New legislation introduced into the State Duma this week aims to limit abortion ads to specialized medical periodicals.

“The document introduces a ban on abortions in any media,” deputy chairman of the Duma Health Committee Sergei Kolesnikov was quoted by RIA Novosti as saying. “The advertisement of abortion can appear only in specialized medical media, and in medical institutions.”
 
The initiative was upheld by three out of four Duma factions: the majority United Russia, A Just Russia, and the Communist Party.

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