The work of PRI continues to draw the attention of national and international media. The following is a partial list of PRI-related “news clippings” from the past few months.
“In the East African country of Tanzania, the road system consists of crumbling asphalt and dirt tracks. Travel in the countryside is only possible in four-wheel-drive vehicles, or on foot…Yet each month family-planning officials, funded in part by the US Agency for International Development, appear in even the remotest villages.”
Steven W, Mosher in The Washington Times, 21 February 2001
“When Mosher left China, he became the first to expose the one-child policy. For that, China declared him persona non grata, and Stanford University refused to read his doctoral dissertation. Through the Population Research Institute, Mosher continues to crusade against the one-child policy and population control. ‘People cause prosperity; they don’t cause problems,’ he says.”
Rebecca Riggs in Family Voice, January/February 2001
“Beijing’s supposed relaxation of the vicious one-child policy is likely to be ‘principally cosmetic’ said Population Research Institute’s Steven Mosher in the PRI Weekly Briefing bulletin Tuesday. The former Stanford University exchange student who first brought Red China’s gruesome depopulation program to the attention of the West said he fears the supposed changes reported last week…in the Wall Street Journal are ‘masking an underlying reality of coercion and intimidation.’”
Life Advocacy Briefing 12, February 2001
“Jim Vittitow, education director of the Virginia-based Population Research Institute, cited an interview published by the UN Foundation’s UN Wire news service last year with outgoing UNFPA Executive Director Nafis Sadik. Sadik said that she has been very successful at changing policies around the globe in areas of reproductive health, population issues, and family planning.”
Paul Burnell in National Catholic Register, 11–17 February 2001
“Steve Mosher, president of Population Research Institute, notes that ‘population growth rate reduction’ is one of the four stated objectives of USAID. He provides details of an $80 million, five-year contract between USAID and one such ‘family planning’ group, AVSC (formerly called the Association for Voluntary Surgical Contraception).”
Susan Wills, in Life Insight, the publication of the NCCB Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities, January 200l
“As long as China is a one-party dictatorship that doesn’t respect human rights or international agreements, it’s dangerous to pretend we can be ‘strategic partners.’ The only thing ‘strategic’ about our relationship with China is its missiles pointed at our cities.”
Steve Mosher in Family Voice, the publication of Concerned Women for America, January/February 2001
“The massive promotion of abortion, contraception, and sterilization by the US and its surrogates has not helped the developing world rid itself of poverty and disease. Rather, it has offended traditional values and customs, wasted taxpayer dollars, and undermined primary healthcare.”
Steve Mosher in The Christian Science Monitor, 29 January 2001
“China’s one-child policy has…created an impending demographic crisis in the country, which now has a rapidly increasing elderly population, straining medical resources. Female infanticide — the killing of girl children — continues to run at epidemic levels. Equally serious, the sex ratio in China is increasingly unbalanced. Demographers estimate that, because of the one-child policy and the age-old Chinese preference for sons, there are now 100 million more men than women in China. This is a number equivalent to the entire male population of the United States between the ages of 14 and 80.”
Steve Mosher in The Wanderer, 4 January 2001
“Mosher, president of Population Research Institute and a longtime critic of China’s one-child policy, places the current regime’s policies within the continuum of Chinese history. For nearly three millennia, he argues, rulers have practiced repression to secure their power. And a sense of hegemony or predominant control over neighboring countries followed.”
Joseph Esposito in Our Sunday Visitor, 22 October 2000
“In his book A Mother’s Ordeal, Steven Mosher, the president of the Population Research Institute describes how a village woman had her baby before the abortion doctors could get there. But they still arrived with syringe in hand and put a lethal injection into the soft spot in the newborn’s head — the same procedure they use on babies who are not full term, ‘If they arrest women who are six to eight months pregnant they will give a poison shot into the womb, into the unborn child, which causes the death of the child and causes a spontaneous ejection from the uterus,’ Mr. Mosher said,”
The Washington Times, 31 August 2000
“Steven Mosher is a hero to those of us who hate and fear the current Chinese government. He has the honor of having been persona non grata in the People’s Republic for 20 years — longer, I think, than any other American scholar.”
John Derbyshire in The Washington Times, 20 August 2000
