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Pill for Romania

Wednesday 06 April 1994 23:02 BST
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Romanian women will soon be able to obtain the contraceptive pill, half paid-for by the state, after decades in which family planning was virtually banned, AFP reports from Bucharest. The subsidy has been made possible by a World Bank loan. Abortion, banned under the regime of Nicolae Ceausescu, remains the most widespread form of contraception.

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