In economic terms, what was Nicolae Ceau_escu's rationale for banning abortions in Romania?

He wanted to increase the natural growth rate. One of the factors that make a country important is the number of its citizens, so, since having children doesn't require that much effort or money and since everything else was going so badly, banning abortions seemed to be quite an easy solution for boosting Ceausescu's ego. Women who had more than 10 children were considered heroines and great patriots. I'm not sure I can give a relevant economic explanation, but the fact was that communists tried to make up for their economic failures by any means possible, even if that meant coming in loss - that never mattered - saving the appearances was all that ever counted. I think he had the ambition to make from Romania a great European political power or at least make it influential in the communist sphere.