Moscow, August 18, 2011
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"I always give one reason: Why do you need to kill? Give the baby to me, no problem. I don't drink, I don't smoke, I don't use bad words, and I have two university degrees," Father Dimitry said in A Matter of Principle TV program.
"My parish is one of the largest both in Moscow and globally, and not a single woman among my parishioners is willing to have an abortion. If we manage to stop abortions, we get an immediate growth," he believes.
According to Father Dimitry, he visited a Moscow maternity clinic, and each woman there explained her intention to have an abortion as being due to financial challenges.
"I was telling them we could give our guarantee to meet those challenges. But my own biggest problem was that not a single woman turned for help to me," he said.