“According to charges leveled by the Population Research Institute (PRI), the FDA decision to grant the morning-after pill (MAP) over the counter status was based on inconclusive data on the effects and efficacy of the drug. The status is currently scheduled for the change in May. Dr. Carole Ben-Maimon, president and chief operating officer of Barr Research, the producers of the drug, has reportedly said MAP is ‘an additional contraceptive option’ that will provide a ‘significant public health service to American women.”
Austin Ruse, “FDA Approval of Morning-After Pill Based on Inconclusive Data, Charges Group,” Culture of Life Foundation’s Culture & Cosmos, 27 April 2004
“The Population Research Institute (PRI)…points out serious misinformation in a recent US Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded study. The study, which seemingly condemns promiscuity as the reason for the African HIV/AIDS epidemic, fails to mention, according to PRI, the fact that the epidemic has been largely the result of USAID-funded, over-the-counter distribution of injectable contraceptives.
“Steven Mosher, president of PRI, says…‘According to USAID, the essential cause of the AIDS pandemic in Africa is that poor men and women of color are promiscuous unto death. This is a Big Fat Myth.
“‘Promiscuity does play into the spread of HIV,’ Mosher continues. ‘But the particular way that USAID frames the issue of promiscuity, as the alleged primary cause of HIV, downplays one of its leading causes — medical transmission of HIV in USAID-funded family planning clinics. It also reveals an agenda to mute criticism of failed programs, and an agenda to carry on the ideological goals of the international family planning community,’ he claims,
“‘Medical experts have debunked the myth that promiscuity is the primary cause of HIV transmission,’ Mosher contends. ‘What the ideologues at USAID deny is medical transmission is a leading cause of HIV, often in the form of injectable contraception, They also deny that USAID flagrantly promotes promiscuity with its family planning policy, while claiming to be against it in its HIV policy.
“‘The report ignores the fact that USAID’s AIDS programs in Africa involve over-the-counter (OTC) provisions of injectable Depo Provera, and other injectable contraceptives,’ he says. ‘OTC Depo in developing nations enables sexual promiscuity, and maims women.
“‘OTC Depo-Provera is not FDA approved,’ Mosher contends. ‘However, USAID is able to promote this dangerous method of population control by following lower medical standards.
“Mosher concludes, ‘In short, USAID’s new policy for AIDS relief seeks to lower rates of sexual activity involving multiple sexual partnerships with mere words. In its actions overseas, USAID promotes sexual promiscuity with OTC Depo and other OTC injectables. USAID is wedded to Depo. Globally, USAID shipped almost 10 million units of Depo overseas in 2000, in conjunction with social marketing often taking the form of so-called Depo festivals.’”
“PRI Says USAID-funded Contraceptive Program Largely Responsible for African HIV/AIDS Epidemic,” LifeSiteNews.com, 23 April 2004
“In the face of humanity’s greatest plague — and growing evidence that genuine faith-based abstinence works — what is the response of the liberal media? The BBC unveiled its own method of HIV/AIDS prevention by lashing out at the pope on the 25th anniversary of his pontificate for not promoting condoms…[But] family planning programs instituted to reduce fertility rates have actually contributed, in various ways, to the spread of AIDS.”
Steven Mosher, “The BBC’s Method of HIV/AIDS Prevention,” Family Resources Center News, June 2004
Aktion Leben, a leading German pro-life group, has published Steven W. Mosher’s Die Malthusianische Taeuschung: Die Urspruenge der Bevoelkerungskontrolle in their occasional papers series, No. 17. This is a translation of Steven W. Mosher’s “The Malthusian Delusion and the Origins of Population Control” which originally appeared in the January/February 2003 issue of the PRI Review
“Mosher came to PRI in 1995, after being excused from studies at Stanford University…One aspect of his field work that got him into trouble involved Chinese women… undergoing abortions. His anti-choice, anti-China bias has not subsided over the past 20 years, and his group was instrumental in promoting the untenable allegations that UNFPA was involved in coercive abortion practices in China, leading to George W. Bush’s infamous denial of $34 million to UNFPA.”
“Bad Faith Makes Bad Politics, The Culture of Life Foundation on Capitol Hill, A Special Report from Catholics for a Free Choice,” 2004, www.catholicsforchoice.org/cffcusa/CLF Report 0204.pdf
