PRONATALIST OPERATING PROCEDURE IN COMMUNIST ROMANIA. A FEMICIDE CASE
PRONATALIST OPERATING PROCEDURE IN COMMUNIST ROMANIA. A FEMICIDE CASE

Summary/Abstract: The paper analyses the abusive practices against the safety of women’s life used in the Romanian state in the period 1966–1989 within its pro-natalist policy management. In those 23 years, an yet unknown number of women brought to the emergency medical services with miscarriage or self-inflicted abortion died as a result of obstruction of medical intervention by the investigative bodies belonging to the state security department (i.e. Securitate). Another yet unknown number of women died or their lives were endangered as a results of the abusive decisions of the so called “Medical Evaluation Comissions” that have rejected in their cases the medical recommandation for legal abortion, although their health condition would have been demanded it. The phenomenon has so far remained unstudied, both in terms of the consequences and magnitude, and institutional or decision-making accountability. The article includes the conclusions of a qualitative research on the abusive practices experienced by women with health risks in case of a pregnancy or in a life-threatening danger as a result of miscarriages or self-inflicted abortions.

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