2004

Abortion by Other Means

After a year-long investigation, the Washington Post came to the disturbing conclusion that murder is the top killer of expectant and new mothers. Pregnant American women are more likely to be killed by other people than by illness or accident, a situation that is a

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Building a Culture of Life: EWTN Update

PRI’s Building a Culture of Life TV series for EWTN is well on its way. While we hope to eventually include 13 shows, we are in the process of working out the details for the first three programs. To effectively use funding, the Population Research

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China’s Persecution of Women and Children: More of the Same

House International Relations H Committee hearings chaired by Rep. Chris Smith (R.-N.J.) and held December 14, 2004, told the same old sad story: the Chinese government continues to persecute women who exceed their allotted quota of children. The same basic story has some new twists,

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Correspondence

Steve, Well, you are now well on the way to annual conferences which I think are most important. And thank you for that award. My confreres are envying me. And it proves once more that if you stick around long enough, you get something! Fr.

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Fewer Workers in Mexico Mean Fewer Immigrants — Eventually

Mexico’s fertility rate has fallen dramatically from 6.8 children per woman in the late ’60s and continues its downward slide. “The goal of the current population policy is to reach replacement rate fertility,” National Population Council (CONAPO) Director Elena Zuniga told PRI this year. “We

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For the Record

“Peruvian health minister Pilar Mazzetti is moving forward with her scheme to introduce the abortifacient morning-after pill for distribution in public health clinics despite the constitution’s protection of human life from conception onwards. “In June of this year, Carlos Polo, writing for the Population Research

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From the Countries

AIDS Invading China AIDS is on the move in China. ATM northeast province of Heilongjiang in recent years has seen a growing number of HIV carriers and full-blown AIDS patients. At the end of October 2004, 56 new HIV carriers and AIDS patients, representing a

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Global Monitor

UN Tells Poland: Legalize Abortion The United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) has decided Poland needs abortion — despite the fact that mostly Catholic Poland doesn’t want it legalized. The UNHRC reported Poland has not complied with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

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President’s Page: State of Fear and Global Warming

I bought the latest Michael Crichton novel, State of Fear, as I was about to board the all-night flight from Phoenix to Washington, D.C. I figured that a fast-paced science thriller by the author of Jurassic Park, The Andromeda Strain, and like books would help

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Scandal in Spain: Late-Term Abortions

Two journalists from the London Telegraph, Daniel Foggo and Charlotte Edwards, secretly filmed Dr. Saroj Adlakha explaining how late-term abortions were performed at the Ginemedex clinic in Barcelona, Spain, giving details of real cases. Dr. Adlakha said she had taken to the clinic a British

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Abortion by Other Means

After a year-long investigation, the Washington Post came to the disturbing conclusion that murder is the top killer of expectant and new mothers. Pregnant American

Read More »

Correspondence

Steve, Well, you are now well on the way to annual conferences which I think are most important. And thank you for that award. My

Read More »

For the Record

“Peruvian health minister Pilar Mazzetti is moving forward with her scheme to introduce the abortifacient morning-after pill for distribution in public health clinics despite the

Read More »

From the Countries

AIDS Invading China AIDS is on the move in China. ATM northeast province of Heilongjiang in recent years has seen a growing number of HIV

Read More »

Global Monitor

UN Tells Poland: Legalize Abortion The United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) has decided Poland needs abortion — despite the fact that mostly Catholic Poland

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