Reproductive Health is a Constitutional Priority of Ensuring Russia’s National Security

Abstract

The author advocates the idea, that ensuring the national security of the country is directly related
to the effectiveness of reproductive health care, in connection with which the latter is a constitutional
priority of state policy in ensuring national security.
The paper considers regulatory legal acts, scientific literature, official demographic statistics and reproductive health indicators of Russian citizens. Traditional methods of scientific knowledge were used: analysis, synthesis, induction, deduction. Dialectical and logical methods made it possible
to comprehensively study the optimal mechanisms for protecting the reproductive health of citizens
in conjunction with constitutional traditional family values.
The author concludes that the state policy in the field of protecting the reproductive health
of citizens is ineffective. The reasons for the deterioration of the reproductive health of Russian
citizens are being investigated. The experience of foreign countries in the field of providing sexual
education to the population is analyzed, and some critical remarks are made. It is proposed to develop
a unified program for sexual education based on traditional Russian spiritual and moral values. It may
include, in particular, information about safer sexual behavior, contraceptives, and family planning
methods.