Russia's State Duma has passed legislation banning the promotion of a "childless lifestyle" across all forms of media in the country.
In September, Elvira Aitkulova, a senior member of the education committee of the State Duma, along with other representatives, drafted legislation that would ban pro-abortion and anti-family propaganda across multiple platforms, including online, in films, advertisements and media. The legislation seeks to combat the encouragement of childlessness, particularly among young people.
"The bill concerns propaganda – the targeted dissemination of information to promote a lifestyle without family and children," Aitkulova said in September. "It is not about the right of individuals to make personal choices, but about efforts to convince others, especially minors, that a childless life is superior."
Individuals found guilty of promoting "child-free propaganda" could face fines of up to 400,000 rubles ($4,290). Meanwhile, government officials could be fined as much as 800,000 rubles ($8,580) and corporations as high as five million rubles ($53,600).
This law, according to the government, seeks to boost the traditional family values and low birth rate in Russia which currently stands at 1.49 children per woman, far below the replacement rate of 2.1 needed to sustain the population levels. If this trend continues, the United Nations and other organizations suggest that the country's population could decline dramatically in the coming decades, with some estimates predicting a halving by 2100.
The Duma passed the legislation on Nov. 12.
"Everything needs to be done to make sure that new generations of Russians grow up with a focus on traditional family values," Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said right after the law was rubber stamped in the lower house of the Russian parliament. (Related: Russia to ban promotion of "childless lifestyle" and impose heavy fines on people spreading "child-free propaganda.")
Legislation also protects Russian children from countries that allow gender transition
The legislation also includes measures restricting the international adoption of Russian children to countries that endorse gender reassignment procedures or allow changes to official documents based on gender identity.
"The most dangerous thing in this situation is that the state can control the absence of a gender change in potential adoptive parents only at the time of adoption on the territory of the Russian Federation," the lawmakers wrote in the explanatory notes of the bill.
"And, therefore, a foreign citizen who has adopted a child who is a citizen of Russia, after returning to the territory of the state of his citizenship, can already change the gender, but the worst thing is that he can change the gender of the adopted child, for example, by starting to use hormone replacement therapy, which is unacceptable."
The provision aims to safeguard children from exposure to ideologies incompatible with the family values of Russia.
"It is extremely important to prevent any encroachment on the possible change of gender by any means in case of adoptions to other countries," said Volodin. Parliament Deputy Speaker Irina Yarovaya echoed a similar statement. "The issue is not that Russia's moral compass and moral foundations aim to protect traditional values and understanding of marriage as the union of man and woman, but it’s the direct protection of a child's life."
The legislation still needs to pass two more readings in the Duma before being sent to the upper house and then to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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