2002

President’s Page: Graduating from Population Control

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) will spend over $400 million on population control over the coming year, much of this in countries where the total fertility rate (TFR) is only slightly above replacement. Women must average 2.1 children for populations to sustain

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How Mexico Treats Its Poor Women

For many years, Population Research Institute has received persistent reports that the Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (IMSS) practices coercive family planning, using force and deception to get women to agree to limit the size of their families. We have found similar patterns of coercion

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For the Record…

“It is about the Population Research Institute, a small, aggressive, anti-family-planning group that was instrumental in getting President Bush to refuse to release a $34-million appropriation to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). To the Virginia-based institute, USAID, UNFPA and every other major international family

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How to Save Lives with $34 Million

August 28, 2002 Volume 4/ Number 20 Dear Colleague: The population controllers are at it again, cooking up phony statistics in a desperate effort to get more of our money. Their argument is nonsensical on the face of it: “We save lives by preventing children

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Project Afghanistan: A Situation Report

August 14, 2002 Volume 4/ Number 19 Dear Colleague: PRI associates have been working in Afghanistan for the past few months, and have discovered that U.N. population control efforts threaten Afghan women, children and families, run roughshod over Afghan laws, and even undercut American basic

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USA Cuts UNFPA Funding

USA Cuts UNFPA Funding For Immediate Release July 22, 2002 Contact Scott Weinberg (540) 622-5240 WASHINGTON, DC — Population Research Institute President Steve Mosher today applauded the decision of the Bush administration to cut US funding for the UNFPA, pursuant to the Kemp-Kasten Amendment which

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Peru: UNFPA Supported Fujimori’s Forced Sterilization Campaigns

July 22, 2002 Volume 4/ Number 17 Dear Colleague: An independent congressional committee of the Peruvian government has charged that the U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA) supported the forced sterilization campaigns executed by former Peruvian dictator Alberto Fujimori. The report of the Peruvian congressional commission provides

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Child Abuse in Domestic Family Planning Programs

July 16, 2002 Volume 4/ Number 16 Dear Colleague: Funding for domestic family planning under Title X was $254 million for FY 2001. Much of this money goes towards providing contraception to teens and minors. Given the abuse, many lawmakers have called these programs into

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How Mexico Treats Its Poor Women

For many years, Population Research Institute has received persistent reports that the Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (IMSS) practices coercive family planning, using force and

Read More »

For the Record…

“It is about the Population Research Institute, a small, aggressive, anti-family-planning group that was instrumental in getting President Bush to refuse to release a $34-million

Read More »

USA Cuts UNFPA Funding

USA Cuts UNFPA Funding For Immediate Release July 22, 2002 Contact Scott Weinberg (540) 622-5240 WASHINGTON, DC — Population Research Institute President Steve Mosher today

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