2004

World Congress of Families

Dear Colleague: PRI is a proud co-sponsor of this year’s World Congress of Families (III), which takes place on March 29-31, 2004, in Mexico City, Mexico. This is the world’s largest conference of pro-family leaders and grass-roots activists, bar none. More than 2,000 family activists

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‘Emergency Contraception’ and the Dangers to Adolescents

March 5, 2004 Volume 6 / Number 9 Dear Colleague: Last month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) delayed until May its decision on Women’s Capital Corporation’s application for over-the-counter (OTC) status for the morning-after pill, so-called emergency contraception (EC). In order to educate

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About F.A.C.E.: Forced Abortions Now Legal in the U.S.

The Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act makes the violation of a woman’s right to receive reproductive health care a federal crime. It is hard to imagine a worse violation of reproductive rights than forced abortion. Yet the Eleventh Circuit of the U.S.

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Correspondence

With Child vs. Pregnant Dear Mr. Mosher, My suggestion is that (because you have such an influence over such a large population of followers) it would be good to replace the world “pregnant” with the phrase “with child” whenever possible, and to make the idea

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Fiddling While Social Security Burns

In October, 2003, Jo Anne B. Barnhart, Commissioner of Social Security, sent me and hundreds of thousands of other January-born workers a report on our Social Security “accounts.” It told me about my wage history, my partial and full benefits at retirement age, and projected

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For the Record…

“C-FAM and the Population Research Institute are part of a tightly woven group of organizations bent on ‘dismantling 30 years of progress in population assistance,’ says a USAID (Agency for International Development) official who prefers anonymity… The pit-pull of this labyrinthine assemblage is the Population

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From the Countries

Kenyan Abortions PRI has reported in the past that illegal abortions are performed in Marie Stopes clinics in Kenya, usually by manual vacuum aspirators (MVA). Now a Norwegian newspaper, Dagen, has reported on the same thing. Dagen quotes a source at Marie Stopes Kenya (MSK):

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Global Monitor

Too Many Males China’s restrictive one-child policy and historical preference for males are leading to a country overrun with bachelors. The BBC reported on Chinese official statistics which anticipate there will be 40 million single men in China by the year 2020. Hainan Island currently

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President’s Page: Banning Human Cloning

Several weeks ago, I had the honor of meeting the president of Costa Rica, Dr. Abel Pacheco. The occasion was a black tie dinner hosted by the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (C-FAM), on whose board of directors I am proud to serve. Dr.

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The Alan Guttmacher Institute vs. Everything

The first thing that strikes an objective reader in Adding it Up: the Benefits of Investing in Sexual and Reproductive Health Care, by The Alan Guttmacher Institute, (AGI) is the presupposition, that, “sexual and reproductive health” is a good thing. Normally, any kind of health

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World Congress of Families

Dear Colleague: PRI is a proud co-sponsor of this year’s World Congress of Families (III), which takes place on March 29-31, 2004, in Mexico City,

Read More »

Correspondence

With Child vs. Pregnant Dear Mr. Mosher, My suggestion is that (because you have such an influence over such a large population of followers) it

Read More »

For the Record…

“C-FAM and the Population Research Institute are part of a tightly woven group of organizations bent on ‘dismantling 30 years of progress in population assistance,’

Read More »

From the Countries

Kenyan Abortions PRI has reported in the past that illegal abortions are performed in Marie Stopes clinics in Kenya, usually by manual vacuum aspirators (MVA).

Read More »

Global Monitor

Too Many Males China’s restrictive one-child policy and historical preference for males are leading to a country overrun with bachelors. The BBC reported on Chinese

Read More »