Natalya Sen, the mother of the two children, told Reuters: “The parents had seen my pictures of them being treated before in the hospital, and I knew that they had died the day before.
“I have decided to hold on to my hopes and prayers that my children will be born alive again.”
She said she was still waiting for medical documents confirming her wishes to deliver her children in a state of limbo. “It is my wish that they (hope) are not born alive,” she said.
Doctors had refused to say definitively the deaths of the women at the hospital and the two at the clinic. “It is very difficult now – my baby, the two, they will go to heaven, not here” said one of the distraught women, referring to her children in Russia by their birth names.
The cases raised questions over whether Russian authorities can prevent such cases and what the next steps will be for those who are forced to live without an understanding of the laws surrounding abortion.
State-run Russian TV showed a long interview with a woman who wanted to give her name only as Maria. She said she decided to abort her child three months ago when she came to Moscow for the procedure and told doctors that she had been raped by a man and that she had to give birth out of fear her unborn child might die because she was black.
Doctors at the clinic said they could do nothing. Doctors in other parts of the country say this is a common occurrence. Human rights organisations say it should never be considered abortion.
REN TV showed a long interview with a woman who wanted to give her name only as Maria. She said she decided to abort her child three months ago when she came to Moscow for the procedure and told doctors that she had been raped by a man and that she had to give birth out of fear her unborn child might die because she was black. Doctors at the clinic said they could do nothing. Human rights organisations say this is a common occurrence. Human rights organisations say it should never be considered abortion.
“I will cry more before I come to the decision,” Maria said in an interview published on state-run TASS news agency and on several websites. She described the procedure as a “devastating blow”, adding that she felt violated not only by a woman, but by her body too. “I felt like a slave,” she said, without using her final name.