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Ceausescu also had that insane forced-birth policy where women under 45 (later relaxed to 40, but then raised back to 45) who had not yet had 4 (later 5) children were not only banned from using birth control or getting abortions, they were regularly pregnancy tested.

Sure, it resulted in a baby boom, but it also ended up creating those infamous orphanages full of neglected children: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decree_770



Yes, some call the people born in that era "decreței" loosely translated as children of the decree. Yes, they did not really respect women's reproductive rights. There are a bunch of horror stories about that aspect of Ceaușescu's regime.




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