ABSTRACT
Over the past decade the problems of family planning began to cause interest in the USSR. Three mutually related questions have been occupying the attention of the mass media, demographers, and sociologists: • Why does the USSR have the highest level of induced abortions
contraception? • Is it possible to modify the situation and in what way? It is difficult to find answers to these questions because official abortion statistics were not published between 1930 and 1987, and even these official statistics do not have enough detail for an in-depth analysis.
