Republican Party of Armenia

 On May 20 at the NA Standing Committee on Healthcare, Maternity and Childhood a working consultation on the theme “Prevalence of and Reasons for Sex-Selective Abortions in Armenia” was held. The RA NA Deputy Speaker Hermine Naghdalyan, the NA deputies, representatives of the UN Population Fund took part in the discussion.

Introducing the theme of the working consultation the Committee Chairman Ara Babloyan noted that during recent years the artificial interruption had become a frequent phenomenon. In Mr Babloyan’s word, we should discuss the problem and try to solve the problems also by law. He noted that the RA Ministry of Healthcare was initiating a draft law on that theme.

Garik Hayrapetyan, the Assistant Representative of the UN Population Fund at the UNFPA Office in Yerevan, has noted that the survey initiated by the UN Population Fund confirms that during the recent years there has been observed a phenomenon of sex-selective abortion .

The deputies attending the discussion addressed questions to the UNFPA Assistant Representative at the UNFPA Office in Yerevan, which mainly related to the statistics, the percentage correlation of the abortion cases, the problem that the children should get sexual upbringing. They highlighted the right campaigning on the problem, as well as the effective measures by which we should fight harmful phenomenon.

Summing up the discussion the Chairman of the NA Standing Committee on Healthcare, Maternity and Childhood Ara Babloyan thanked the attendees for the concerning discussion.