In This Issue:
- PRI in the Media
- Competing with China
- Abuse Erasure
- Demography is Destiny
- American Regret
- UN Misdeeds
- Birth Control Monopoly
- Communist China
- Crumbling CCP Predicted
- Science Gone Mad
- The Abortion Administration
- Pro-Life Around the World
- Matić Report Accepted
- Rock of Gibraltar Falls
- Pro-Life on the Home Front
- Care for Her
- Late-term Abortion Banned
- Suicide Fast-Tracked
- Baby-Saving Bill Vetoed
- Good News
- Bubble Wrap Baby
PRI in the Media
Competing With China: PRI President Steven Mosher appeared on The Chris Salcedo Show with substitute host Tom Basile and The Washington Times online opinion editor Cheryl Chumley. Mosher provided insight on why legislation passed by the House to increase competition with China is crucial. He emphasized the need to increase the number of STEM researchers in America in order to stay ahead of China. This increased research would also need to be kept secure, to combat the ongoing issue of the CCP buying out American research on the cheap. This type of thievery has kept China ahead of the curve for too long. According to Mosher, “China cannot catch up with us if we stop them from stealing.”
Segment with Steven Mosher begins at [00:48:00] Watch Here
Abuse Erasure: A recently released Lancet Commission on the health of women and their children throughout the history of the People’s Republic of China revealed a blatant erasure of the CCP’s human rights abuses. The Commission praised China for reducing maternal and child mortality. The approximately 400 million babies that were forcibly aborted were not included in that tally. The one-child policy was mentioned only as a positive factor that assisted in lifting citizens out of poverty and boosted gender equality.
Within the article PRI President Steven Mosher stated, “The sanitized language of the report is an attempt–not very convincing–to mask the fact that, from 1980 to 2016, China had a one-child policy in place. This resulted in millions of forced abortions and sterilizations annually, hundreds of thousands of cases of female infanticide, and the highest female suicide rate in the world. To characterize this as an effort to ‘reduce maternal and child deaths’ is a gross misrepresentation of the brutal reality that women faced in those years.” Read Here
Demography is Destiny
American Regret: The Institute for Family Studies conducted a survey to figure out what Americans regret more: having children or not having children. Although they did not specifically use the word “regret”, the “U.S. Adult Sexual Behaviors and Attitudes Study” sought to determine whether individuals wanted more or less children than they already had. If one did not have children yet, they answered whether they wanted to have them in the future. The bottom line found that a majority of people want children, with more than a third wishing for more children than they currently have. According to the IFS, “an astonishing 88% agree that ‘having children is one of the most important things I have done.’” Based on this study, they find it safe to assume that the joy of having children far outweighs any regret. Read Here
“As I’ve said before, there’s a lot of frustrated fertility in the United States”, says PRI President Steven Mosher. “The survey shows that nearly all Americans understand that children are one of the greatest goods in life, and that a life without children is a life not fully lived. Public policy should be aimed at increasing the birth rate, starting by decreasing the number of abortions, hopefully to zero.”
UN Misdeeds
Birth Control Monopoly: The UNFPA has a monopoly on contraceptives in Africa. This self described UN “sexual and reproductive health agency” purchases these products for 150 countries. It is the main supplier in 26 countries and the sole purchaser in 22. In Zambia, for example, the UNFPA provides 60% of contraception for the public, funneled through the MSI Reproductive Choices center. According to International Family News, this center essentially offers two choices: “either don’t conceive or have an abortion.” MSI Reproductive Choices is now facing a significant dip in funds, not from a lack of U.S. support but from an 85% cut in funds from the U.K. due to the pandemic. Despite this roadblock, the MSI wants to expand their services by opening mobile clinics and “teen friendly services.” Read Here
“Marie Stopes was a notorious eugenicist,” says PRI President Steven Mosher. “It is not surprising that MSI has renamed itself to distance itself from her views. Unfortunately it has not distanced itself from her practices. It’s reckless distribution of contraceptives in places like Zambia, often given indiscriminately to women without a prior medical exam and without proper follow-up, violates informed consent.”
Communist China
Crumbling CCP Predicted: Cai Xia, a former CCP academic, recently submitted a paper regarding China-United States relations to the Hoover Institution for publication. Within this work, she warned that the CCP, viewed by many as a competitor for world domination, is “much more fragile than Americans assume.” She also advised that engagement attempts by the U.S. should be replaced with defensive measures and offensive pressures. Her words should be heeded considering her fifteen years spent teaching CCP ideology at Beijing’s Central Party School. In a poetic criticism, she claimed, “The CCP has the ambition of a hungry dragon but inside it is a paper tiger.” Read Here
“Cai Xia is a recent defector from the Chinese Communist Party, and knows it inside-out. Now residing in the United States, she rightly urges us to be clear-eyed about the threat posed by the CCP to the United States and the world. We need to decouple from China economically and, in concert with our allies, bring as much political, economic, and military pressure to bear on the CCP as possible. If we do this, it will collapse.”
Science Gone Mad
The Abortion Administration: The Biden administration has continued their crusade as the most radically pro-abortion administration in history. The disbandment of the NIH ethics board that oversees human fetal tissue research came after horrifying details about the trafficking of aborted babies in the United States were uncovered. More than a hundred congressional Republicans have petitioned for the board to be reinstated, in light of these findings. The details of these experiments were disturbing, seeming better suited to science fiction than reality. The scientists use the dead babies in experiments creating humanized mice. Unfortunately, today anything can be justified in the name of science. Read Here
“The self-described most ethical and transparent administration in American history has disbanded a board instituted to uphold medical ethics in an age of rampant and deadly experimentation on human beings. Can anyone spell the word ‘hypocrisy?’” ~ PRI President Steven Mosher
Pro-Life Around the World
Matić Report Accepted: The Matić Report, reported on by Head of PRI’s European office, Dr. Beltramo in a recent PRI Weekly Briefing, was approved by the European Parliament on June 24th. This “report on the situation of sexual and reproductive health and rights in the EU, in the frame of women’s health” describes abortion as “essential healthcare.” It also seeks to redefine conscientious objection as a “denial of medical care.” Attempts were made by the EPP group and ECR group to garner support for an alternative motion, but these failed along with attempts by Catholic leaders and pro-life groups who had urged the Parliament to reject the report. Read Here
Rock of Gibraltar Falls: Last Thursday the voters in the British protectorate of Gibraltar went to the polls to vote on whether to loosen existing laws protecting the unborn. Right now, women can only obtain abortions if the pregnancy threatens their lives–which, as a practical matter, it never does. Sixty-two percent of voters voted in favor of the new law which permits them to abort their babies up to 12 weeks gestation if the baby has a severe deformity or if the pregnancy puts their mental or physical health at risk. Pro-lifers know from long experience that a “mental health” exception is tantamount to allowing abortion on demand. Read Here
Pro-Life on the Home Front
Care for Her: Republican Rep. Jeff Fortenberry introduced a new bill focused on the care of pregnant women. The Care for Her Act aims to support women with unexpected pregnancies, as well as create a community for them and their babies. The bill has four basic provisions that address different needs of an expectant mother and unborn child. The bill acknowledges unborn children as the living, growing beings that they are, and would make them eligible for the child tax credit. Fortenberry hopes the bill will bridge the political divide, bringing together support from both the pro-life and pro-choice sides. Read Here
“As everyone knows, life begins at conception,” says PRI President Mosher. “It makes perfect sense that we should extend the child tax credit to unborn children. After all, unborn children are children too. This would also have the salutary effect of reducing the abortion rate, I have no doubt. Kudos to my Nebraska friend, Congressman Jeff Fortenberry.”
Late-term Abortion Banned: Pro-abortion Gov. Chris Sununu of New Hampshire signed legislation that bans abortion at 24 weeks and on – no exceptions. This came as part of a $13 billion budget, that ensured several other Pro-Life policy changes as well. It stipulates that abortionists who violate the new legislation can be charged with a Class B Felony and fined anywhere from $10,000 to $100,000. The bill reflects the Protect Life Rule enacted while the Trump administration was in office, since it prohibits distributing state funds to reproductive health care facilities for provision of abortion services. This is a big step in the right direction for New Hampshire, and a win for the United States Pro-Life Movement. Read Here
Suicide Fast-Tracked: A bill has been moving through California Legislature that would ease the rules regarding requests for lethal drugs and make assisted suicide permanently legal in the state. By introducing this bill, State Senator Susan Eggman has prioritized assisted suicide, rather than improving access to health care services which proved sorely lacking throughout the pandemic. The California Catholic Conference has started building opposition to the bill and is not alone in this endeavour. They are joined by disability rights activists, who protest the bill also. Read Here
Baby-Saving Bill Vetoed: Gov. Roy Cooper of North Carolina vetoed legislation that would have prevented women from having abortions based on race, sex, or potential genetic abnormality. He claimed this bill would interfere in the personal decision between a woman and her doctor, calling it “unprecedented government intrusion.” While states, such as Ohio, make strides in protecting babies, North Carolina falls behind. VP of the NC Values Coalition, Julie Emmons, stated that the Governor “missed this opportunity to protect our precious preborn babies who have Down Syndrome.” Read Here
Good News
Bubble Wrap Baby: Premature baby born at just 25 weeks has just turned a year old. Larenz Carr was so small at birth, the doctors in the NICU used a sandwich bag to regulate his temperature. Once he was moved to an incubator, it was replaced with bubble wrap. One of the smallest babies to ever survive, Larenz was lucky to make it to today with no developmental problems. His parents refer to him as their little miracle. Read Here
Quote of the Day
“What calamities could be averted, what happiness and tranquility assured, if the social and international forces working to establish peace would let themselves be permeated by the deep lessons of the Gospel of Love.”
~ Pope Venerable Pius XII, Summi Pontificatus, Source
