The political hypocrisy and personal horrors of one of the most
repressive anti-abortion regimes in history came to the world's
attention soon after the fall of Romanian dictator Nicolae
Ceausescu. Photographs of orphans with vacant eyes, sad faces, and
wasted bodies circled the globe, as did alarming maternal mortality
statistics and heartbreaking details of a devastating infant AIDS
epidemic. Gail Kligman's ethnography - of the state and of the
politics of reproduction - is an in-depth examination of this
extreme case of political intervention into the most intimate
aspects of everyday life. Ceausescu's reproductive policies, among
which the banning of abortion was central, affected the physical
and emotional well-being not only of individual men, women,
children, and families but also of society as a whole. Sexuality,
intimacy, and fertility control were fraught with fear, which
permeated daily life and took a heavy moral toll as lying and
dissimulation transformed both individuals and the state. This
study is based on moving interviews with women and physicians as
well as on documentary and archival material. In addition to
discussing the social implications and human costs of
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