Sympathy for Gabita?

I recently re-watched this movie, and for the first time (I've seen it twice before), I felt quite a bit of sympathy for Gabita. Originally, she frustrated me completely with her carelessness, mistakes, and the enormous burdens she places on Otilia. This time around, though, I began to feel very sorry for her. Cristian Mungiu has stated before that many things in the movie were left ambiguous and unexplained on purpose. So it's quite possible that Gabita was, in reality, very similar to Otilia-- perhaps she was pregnant by a boyfriend who, unlike Adi, didn't offer to marry her, or perhaps went back on his word-- or she decided not to have the baby because she didn't want to marry him because of some differences (you might remember that Adi's family, for instance, makes Otilia very uncomfortable and it is insinuated that she wouldn't want to marry him if he did get her pregnant).

And then I thought about it from a pregnant woman's perspective. I think this might be one of those things that you can't fully understand until you've been in this situation, but having an abortion EVEN if it's legal and even if the pregnancy was conceived in a committed relationship, is very emotionally taxing. Imagine not having your partner support you through it. And now imagine having to procure one in a Communist Romania under the oppressive misogynistic Ceausescu-regime. Yes, Gabita made a lot of stupid preventable mistakes, but I want to give her the benefit of the doubt with most of it because it was very evident to me that she had been carrying the burden alone for some time (I deduced this from the fact that even Otilia didn't know how far along she was in her pregnancy).

So what do you think? Are Gabita's missteps forgivable?