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“Romanians, however, paid a terrible price for Ceauşescu’s privileged status. In 1966, to increase the population—a traditional ‘Romanianist’ obsession—he prohibited abortion for women under…

— Tony Judt

After the fall of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, Romanians were crazed with happiness. People who never met each other before hugged each other in the…

— Octavian Paler

I think that Ronald Reagan had it right, being against abortion except in certain limited, defined circumstances.

— John Bolton

“palincă – Romania’s secret weapon of mass inebriation.”

— Mike Ormsby

Ronald Reagan never did much to make abortion illegal. He did, however, deliver videotaped greetings, fulsome in praise for his hosts, to antiabortion rallies…

— Rick Perlstein

“Ceauşescu and his cronies dominated 20 million Romanians for four decades because they ensured three vital conditions. First, they placed loyal communist apparatchiks in…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The communists didn’t release their grip until the late 1980s. Effective organisation kept them in power for eight long decades, and they eventually fell…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Brucan had been in Moscow earlier that year, not that we, the people, were aware of that, getting orders to organise the Ceauşescus' fall.”

— Florin Grancea

“Though many other nations, but not all, also allow abortion, it has been America which has led in the abortion movement. Once Roe v.…

— John Price

“It may seem somewhat ironic that the Catholic Church finds itself advocating the same position against abortion as its severest Christian critics, the Protestant…

— Jack Holland

Of course, I grew up in Communist Romania, but I am happy to say that now our country is democratic, and prospering, since the…

— Nadia Comaneci

A non-Communist premier with Communist ministers would be like a woman trying to stay half pregnant.

— Charles E. Bohlen