Very liberally applied. Especially important is there was zero social stigma attached to it so it was simply a medical procedure just like pulling a tooth. Obviously the emotional turmoil on the part of women deciding to have the abortion was still present, simply because it is such an emotionally charged decision in any context just by its nature. All in all abortion was more widely used than in the West but nowhere near the caricature levels conservatives would have you believe, a huge factor being that it was actually super easy to have a child and give it a good life. The state did everything to make having children a joy (fully paid maternity leave of 112 days, partially paid maternity leave till 18 months and job place retainment for 3 years - all claimed together, free 24 hour kindergarten, free medical care, free childcare classes pre-birth, free enrolment of children into all sorts of extracurricular activities, city planning so schools, shops, hospitals within max 15 minutes walking distance, etc.) while also making it easy for women to undo unwanted pregnancies. As it should be.
Edited details about maternity leave above.
Here are some links:
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.iipf.org/papers/Malkova-The_Effect_of_Paid_Parental_Leave_and_a_Child_Benefit-126.pdf%3Fdb_name%3DIIPF69%26paper_id%3D463&ved=2ahUKEwiRi8vJheLsAhVCC-wKHcEcDMIQFjACegQIBhAB&usg=AOvVaw3PK6BsXN5rbhyjzJU06FAp
Just added links and edited the maternity leave details. The important thing to note is that despite greater and greater erosion of social services in the West, in the USSR workers were getting better and better protection and benefits with each passing year up until Gorbachev started his liberalisation course.
To add on to what Rev said, I was watching a recent Russian TV series set right around Stalin's death (Оттепель), and was struck by how the two abortions on the show were handled. For the first, everyone involved was extremely matter-of-fact about it, and the big "drama" of the scene was that the woman's ex husband promised he'd pick her up by car after the procedure, but forgot about it and she had to go by metro. In the second, they showed the woman go to the doctor for a checkup (she's kinda young and naive and didn't get that she was pregnant), and the nurses slut shamed her a bit for getting knocked up without being married, but were extremely casual about asking if she wanted to get an abortion. Obviously this is just a TV series, but watching it I realized I couldn't really remember any American TV series handling abortion so matter of factly - especially one set in the 50s.
What was abortion like in the USSR and eastern block?
Mandatory if the procreation act wasn't performed in the prescence of a political comisar and/or a picture of Stalin
what if i get my buddy a fake mustache and have him pretend to be stalin? does that count too or is that fruad?
Besides of fraud that would be kinky and so, revisionist.
Very liberally applied. Especially important is there was zero social stigma attached to it so it was simply a medical procedure just like pulling a tooth. Obviously the emotional turmoil on the part of women deciding to have the abortion was still present, simply because it is such an emotionally charged decision in any context just by its nature. All in all abortion was more widely used than in the West but nowhere near the caricature levels conservatives would have you believe, a huge factor being that it was actually super easy to have a child and give it a good life. The state did everything to make having children a joy (fully paid maternity leave of 112 days, partially paid maternity leave till 18 months and job place retainment for 3 years - all claimed together, free 24 hour kindergarten, free medical care, free childcare classes pre-birth, free enrolment of children into all sorts of extracurricular activities, city planning so schools, shops, hospitals within max 15 minutes walking distance, etc.) while also making it easy for women to undo unwanted pregnancies. As it should be.
Edited details about maternity leave above.
Here are some links: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.iipf.org/papers/Malkova-The_Effect_of_Paid_Parental_Leave_and_a_Child_Benefit-126.pdf%3Fdb_name%3DIIPF69%26paper_id%3D463&ved=2ahUKEwiRi8vJheLsAhVCC-wKHcEcDMIQFjACegQIBhAB&usg=AOvVaw3PK6BsXN5rbhyjzJU06FAp
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://iussp2009.princeton.edu/papers/92034&ved=2ahUKEwiT1JTAhuLsAhURnBQKHWo2AcwQFjAEegQIDxAB&usg=AOvVaw36vIHY02baPGcVDtA5eDDy
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Just added links and edited the maternity leave details. The important thing to note is that despite greater and greater erosion of social services in the West, in the USSR workers were getting better and better protection and benefits with each passing year up until Gorbachev started his liberalisation course.
This is amazing, thanks for sharing!
To add on to what Rev said, I was watching a recent Russian TV series set right around Stalin's death (Оттепель), and was struck by how the two abortions on the show were handled. For the first, everyone involved was extremely matter-of-fact about it, and the big "drama" of the scene was that the woman's ex husband promised he'd pick her up by car after the procedure, but forgot about it and she had to go by metro. In the second, they showed the woman go to the doctor for a checkup (she's kinda young and naive and didn't get that she was pregnant), and the nurses slut shamed her a bit for getting knocked up without being married, but were extremely casual about asking if she wanted to get an abortion. Obviously this is just a TV series, but watching it I realized I couldn't really remember any American TV series handling abortion so matter of factly - especially one set in the 50s.