Re: Ceausescu's Romania shows pro-life policy works -
03-28-2011, 11:18 AM
You're kidding me, right? Did you even read the whole article you quoted from, or are you intentionally trying to mislead people?!
Quoting from the same article:
"The increase in live births was short-lived...
Although government expenditures on material incentives rose by 470 percent between 1967 and 1983, the birthrate actually decreased during that time by 40 percent. After 1983, despite the extreme measures taken by the regime to combat the decline, there was only a slight increase, from 14.3 to 15.5 per 1,000 in 1984 and 16 per 1,000 in 1985. After more than two decades of draconian anti- abortion regulation and expenditures for material incentives that by 1985 equalled half the amount budgeted for defense, Romanian birthrates were only a fraction higher than those rates in countries permitting abortion on demand...
Romanian demographic policies continued to be unsuccessful...
In 1989 abortion remained the only means of fertility control available to an increasingly desperate population. The number of quasi-legal abortions continued to rise, as women resorted to whatever means necessary to secure permission for the procedure. Women who failed to get official approval were forced to seek illegal abortions, which could be had for a carton of Kent cigarettes....
...The new approach, like previous attempts, met with little success..."
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