Abortion Rate Incredibly Increased After The Incident

In the weeks and months following the accident, misinformation and "radiophobia" spread swiftly. Many individuals, including doctors, believed they couldn't rely on authorities to tell them the truth about the contamination's scope.

As a result, tens of thousands of women have had abortions, doctors warned women their kids had been exposed to radiation and could be born with birth abnormalities, therefore between 100,000 and 200,000 abortions were performed on them following the occurrence. There was "radiophobia," but the World Health Organization says there is no evidence that birth abnormalities were more common in newborns born near Chernobyl.

These decisions are reflected in the birth rate statistics from 1986 and 1987. Thousands of women in Soviet Ukraine wanted abortions in the month following the disaster alone, compared to the baseline rate. Even in countries further away, such as Hungary, Greece, Denmark, and Italy, there was a significant increase in abortions due to the accident, resulting in a lower birth rate the following year. After the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan in 2011, there was no increase in spontaneous or induced abortions.