OREANDA-NEWS Named the Russian regions in which the largest number of abortions were performed in 2018. The data of the statistical compilation of the RF Ministry of Health cites RIA Novosti on Friday, August 2.

Most abortions last year were done in the Jewish Autonomous Region - 35.6 per thousand women of childbearing age. Then follow the Republic of Tyva (34.5) and Sakhalin Oblast (32.2).

The smallest number of abortions, as noted, was recorded in the republics of Dagestan and Ingushetia, as well as in Moscow.

In May, the Commissioner for the Rights of the Child in the Russian Federation, Anna Kuznetsova, noted that more than 567 thousand abortions were registered in Russia in 2018, which is about a third of the number of births.