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The Russian translation of this page is very inaccurate.

The Russian reads:

1. A miscarriage induced by a folk-healer or mid-wife not only maims a woman, but often leads to death.

2. At the birthing-woman's

3. Consequences of the miscarriage

4. Every miscarriage is harmful

5. Death from a miscarriage

6. Folk-healers and midwives who induce miscarriages are committing a crime.

Russian also has the word "abort" for abortion, but here "miscarriage" was specifically chosen as a euphemism, reflecting the underlying folk-euphemism.


 * to extend on the above, abortion has been legal in Soviet Russia from 1920 to 1936 (this poster is from 1925), as discussed here Abortion in Russia. The "illegal miscarriages" here mentioned are those induced by non-medical personnel. Getting abortion from a hospital surgeon would have been allowed. 76.119.30.87 (talk) 20:41, 15 January 2011 (UTC)