“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 Research Institute, which was set up in 1989 by Benedictine priest Father Paul Marx, who at the time was president of Human Life International. Sometime in the mid-1990s, Marx recruited a man named Steven Mosher to run PRI.”
“Mosher, the man Marx would later recruit to run PRI, started out his adult life as an apparently serious student, entering a doctoral program in anthropology at Stanford University… Though it is unclear what Mosher was initially researching in China, he began to study the country’s population-control practices, which in the 1970s and 1980s were very harsh. His observations there may have colored his subsequent views, as he witnessed women being forced to have late-term abortions against their will.”
“The ‘small band of extremists’ is doing more than hamstringing U.S. foreign policy. PRI and its spawn are attempting to remake policy to fit their own triumphal new world order — in hopes of reversing decades of progress by U.N. agencies, NGOs, and community groups.”
Don Hinrichsen, “Ladies, You Have No Choice,” WorldWatch magazine, March/April 2004
“‘I don’t see the U.S. as isolated, I see it as prescient,’ says Steven Mosher, president of the Population Research Institute (PRI), a Virginia-based organization that monitors population control abuses worldwide. ‘The U.S. was in the vanguard back in the 1960s when the focus was the population bomb, and it is leading the way again as the focus shifts from population control to primary healthcare.’ ‘I hope that five years down the road we’re taking all the money [for family planning] and putting it into women’s primary healthcare,’ says PRI’s Mr. Mosher.”
Howard LaFranchi, “On family planning, US vs. much of the world,” Christian Science Monitor, 30 March 2004
“‘AIDS alone is devastating the heart of these countries, affecting people in the prime years of not only their economic production, but the prime years of reproduction,’ says Steve Mosher, president of the Population Research Institute, a Front Royal, Va.-based group that opposes population controls as a way to curb growth. ‘Population control efforts make no sense in the face of the AIDS epidemic.”’
Genaro C. Armas, “Census projections show population growth slowing,” Associated Press, 23 March 2004. printed in USA Today, Sacramento Bee, The Toronto Star, The Guardian, The Globe and Mail, The Salt Lake Tribune, Atlanta Journal Constitution, CNN.com, Canoe News Canada, Contra Costa Times, Fredericksburg Freeland Star, allAfrica.com, and others
“For years, Peruvian pro-lifers have alleged the U.S. agency for International Development has been too supportive of feminist organizations trying to legalize abortion in Latin American countries… But now, an event sponsored by the agency in which legal abortion was openly promoted has proved the pro-lifers correct… The video, a copy of which is in the hands of the Population Research Institute, a U.S.-based pro-life organization shows [Pathfinder International representative Delicia] Ferrando speaking openly against Peruvian pro-life legislation under a large U.S. Agency for International Development logo…‘The funding of this conference and of organizations that are pushing for abortion on demand in Peru is a blatant violation of U.S. law,’ said Population Research Institute president Steve Mosher. Mosher cited the Kemp-Kasten Amendment, which forbids funding any organization that promotes coercive abortion or forced sterilization… In 1988, USAID in Peru was involved in controversy after the Population Research Institute brought evidence that the Peruvian government… was using agency money to finance its campaign of forced sterilization of women.”
Alejandro Bermudez, “U.S. Agency Promotes Abortion Abroad, Peruvian Congressmen Charge,” National Catholic Register, 7–13 March 2004
“Mosher reports, ‘The makers and promoters of Plan B see vast profits from teen consumers if over-the-counter approval is given by the FDA. The promotion of the drug to adolescents has involved dangerous trials, which have exposed the teen subjects involved to serious health risks. Approval of over-the-counter emergency contraception would expose the entire adolescent population to these same risks, which have been ignored by its promoters.’”
John Mallon, The Forum: The Back Alley Pill. Catholic World News, 5 April 2004
“The Population Research Institute has revealed that coerced abortion is a reality in America. A court ruled that a woman can be forced to submit to an abortion, if, in the opinion of the abortionist, the measure is necessary to ‘protect the health of the mother.’ The Jane Roe II vs. Aware Women Center for Choice, Inc., ruling was handed down in January.”
Forced Abortion Legal in America, LifeSiteNews.com, 9 March 2004
