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Buoyed by dollars and evangelical zeal, a growing number of ‘pregnancy crisis centres’ threaten to return the country to the deadly days of Ceaușescu’s ban
In 1989, Romania dropped its infamous policy banning all forms of birth control. But, many women are still finding it impossible to get an abortion, faced with a right-wing assault against reproductive rights.
Daily Times March 27, 2021 In a dilapidated studio apartment in a run-down part of Bucharest, single mother of three Emilia remembers the despondency she felt when she first fell pregnant at the age of 15. “I knew my future was over,” she says. Now 20, Emilia is one of thousands of young Romanian women and girls for whom poverty and lack of access to health education have resulted in teenage pregnancies. Around 10 percent of all newborns in Romania, a country of 19 million, are delivered to adolescent mothers, figures from the Romanian statistics institute show. A total of 673 girls under...