Brickbat: Be Fruitful and Multiply. Or Else.

Vyacheslav Volodin, the speaker of Russia's lower house of parliament and an ally of President Vladimir Putin, said lawmakers will take up a ban on "propaganda of conscious refusal to bear children." Volodin said the bill will impose fines of up to $4,300 for individuals and more than $53,000 for legal organizations convicted of advocating for voluntary childlessness.