Russia considers law to ban defending child-free lifestyle
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Under the proposed new legislation, comments defending the decision not to have children could be fined by up to $55,000. After prohibiting LGBTQ+ activism, Russian authorities have set their sight on the feminist movement

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Openly defending one’s decision not to have children will be prosecuted in Russia. The State Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament, is preparing a bill under which authorities will impose fines of up to €50,000 ($55,580) for supporting “the refusal to have children.” The measure affects all areas of life — from casual conversation to films and books — and is a serious threat to the Russian feminist movement.

The crackdown on what the Kremlin calls the “childfree” movement will result in fines of up to 400,000 rubles for individuals (around $4,300), 800,000 rubles for civil servants ($8,600), and up to five million rubles ($55,580) for companies or other legal entities. Foreigners will also be deported.

There are thousands of reasons why a person may decide not to have children, but the Cabinet of ministers has asked the State Duma to make only three exceptions to the law: religious reasons, medical reasons or in the case of rape. It also alleges that there is a mass-organized childfree movement, even though the websites on this subject are little more than a curiosity; Russian newspapers cite the existence of groups on VKontakte, the Russian Facebook, which barely have 5,000 members.

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  • werefreeatlast@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Childless couples and single bachelors finally united by one powerful force!..still childless? Okay so basically two guys and a fertile woman united by another guy! Finally the family we all need! Oh. She’s already 52? Well, keep trying. That’s the spirit!

  • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Wow, the new superpower race is on to see who can implement The Handmaid’s Tale first.

  • Mistic@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Some important info that is missing:

    1. Proposed legislation is far from being an actual law. It has only once passed the committee (1st stage out of 5), after which got sent to be re-written. Now it’s at pre-1st stage.

    2. So far, it has received 2 negative reviews from the administration. First one, from 2022, said it’s redundant, and second one, from 2023 that it’s… still just as redundant as it was.

    3. 2 out of 3 authors have removed their signatures since the first negative review.

    Basically, there’s little to no chance this would ever pass. Our “crazy printer” may be insane, but it only does so if there is an ass to lick.

    I could even link everything if anybody wants me to. Doubt it won’t get removed, but still.

  • YeetPics@mander.xyzEnglish
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    4 days ago

    "Listen, verbally defending your actions from criticism is just a western plot to sully the great minds in Russia…

    You’re all just paranoid westoids who are too propagandized to understand how this is a good thing."

    -Every tankie reading this article before hearing their own idiotic thoughts and going back to hexbear to have an ego-masturbating championship while being too ignorant to seize the means of their own betterment.

    • hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      4 days ago

      “umm akcshually this is a good thing because the US is bad and I’m way too dense to understand that two countries can be bad at the same time and you’re fascist if you disagree with me” How about that?