| Titre | The demographic argument in Soviet debates over the legalization of abortion in the 1920's | |
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| Auteur | Susan Gross Solomon | |
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Revue |
Cahiers du monde russe Titre à cette date : Cahiers du monde russe et soviétique |
| Numéro | volume 33, no 1, janvier-mars 1992 | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Articles |
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| Page | 59-81 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Susan Gross Solomon, The demographic argument in Soviet debates over the legalization of abortion in the 1920s.
The signing of the Soviet edict of November 1920 legalizing abortion on social as well as medical grounds provoked intense criticism from within the Russian medical community. Curiously, the demographic argument against abortion, so widespread in other countries of Europe at this time, played almost no role in the Soviet physicians' critique of legalization; until the early 1930's, the doctors attacked the new policy primarily on the grounds that abortion, legal or illegal, had harmful effects on the female organism. This paper argues that the focus of the Soviet physician's critique was shaped by the terms under which the state granted physicians authority over the performance of abortion in 1920. In support of this argument, the paper draws on three different bodies of writing about problems of fertility in Soviet Russia - debates by Soviet physicians over contraception, discussions by Soviet demographers of abortion, and evaluations by German demographers of the impact of legalizing abortion on the Soviet birth rate. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/cmr_0008-0160_1992_num_33_1_2306 |
