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wuushew Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-24-08 10:09 PM
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Can someone explain Romania's abortion policy to me?
What was Ceauşescu's aim and how did he reconcile his disparate views with the rest of the communist block?





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Captain Hilts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-24-08 10:10 PM
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1. Access to abortion varied according to circumstances. The USSR's policy hemmed and hawed....
Ceausescu's aim was to keep the birthrate up at a time that it was flattening.
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Recursion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-24-08 10:33 PM
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2. Some articles
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_in_the_Soviet_Union
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0038-5859(196507)17%3A1%3C76%3AACAPPI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-F

In short, the Soviet Union legalized abortions but were appalled at how it affected their birthrate

Ceausescu just skipped the first step. Some leaders (Ceausescu, Tito, etc.) were given pretty wide leeway by the Soviet to run their countries.
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StevieM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-24-08 10:41 PM
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3. Yugoslavia, though Communist, wasn't part of the Soviet bloc (eom)
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