Twenty Romanian NGOs demand respect for women's right to abortion in the public healthcare sector
At the initiative of the Coalition for Gender Equality, several Romanian NGO’s signed an open letter sent to the Romanian Ministry of Health and the Department for Emergency Situations. The letter signals that following the recent Emergency Order 9490 dated October 4th, 2021 and suspending non-urgent medical procedures, women's access to on-demand abortion services is left to physicians decision, even though it is an unpostonable intervention. Romanian women's access to on demand abortion services thus becomes drastically limited in many public medical facilities in the country.
The past year, with the issue of a similar Emergency Order, only 12 public hospitals performed on demand abortions throughout the country.
The current reality is that women and teenagers in Romania are turning to non-governmental organizations to help them find a doctor to perform abortions on request. And many women with no financial resources have had to either resort to dangerous procedures or to succumb to carry the pregnancy against their will.
Non-governmental organizations recall that during the communist period and the 770/1966 Decree outlawing abortions, the prohibitions of on demand abortions did not lead to a decrease in the number of abortions, but rather to an increase of unsafe abortions (performed in non-sterile conditions, in the absence of medical staff and equipment, outside of a hospital or medical facility), even at the cost of many women’s death .
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