# Putin orders search engines to steer abortion queries toward ‘social support’ programs

https://mins.news/en/item/117058

- Meduza, 2026-10-27 08:56 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/10/27/putin-orders-search-engines-to-steer-women-seeking-abortion-information-toward-social-support-programs-instead

> Vladimir Putin has instructed the government to draft proposals that would put sites offering social support to women facing reproductive choices ahead of other results for abortion-related searches. Federation Council speaker Valentina Matviyenko proposed a similar change earlier. Russia has broadly restricted abortion access, and private clinics in 19 regions have stopped providing the procedure.