re: #380 jamesfirecat

Either way we’ve sort of wandered away from the issue at hand here (abortion and who pays for it), haven’t we?

Here’s something to bring it right back:

Nicolae Ceausescu loved nothing better than a monument to himself. But his ministerial palaces and avenues paled next to another of his schemes for building socialism: a plan to increase Romania’s population from 23 million to 30 million by the year 2000. He began his campaign in 1966 with a decree that virtually made pregnancy a state policy. “The fetus is the property of the entire society,” Ceausescu proclaimed. “Anyone who avoids having children is a deserter who abandons the laws of national continuity.”

Read the whole horrifying thing.