22mn abortions after ban on contraception

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London: Romanian women went through over 22 million abortions as a result of policies introduced by former communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, health statistics have revealed.

According to the Daily Mail, official government records show that between 1958 and 2008 state clinics carried out 22.1 million terminations in a country with a population of just 21.5 million.

Experts say that the figures came from Ceausescu’s drive to push up the country’s population by banning all forms of contraception.

One victim of the regime Raluca Ionescu, who has had 32 abortions, said: “I never thought about them as children, you know, just as a growth or something that needs to be taken care of.”

“I first became pregnant when I was 13. My mother took me first to the clinic, then after that I went on my own,” she added.