In This Issue:
- PRI in the Media
- Appearance on EWTN
- Ties to China
- Deepening Depopulation
- More Vietnamese Babies
- Attacking Large Families
- Communist China
- Doomsday Degree
- Science Gone Mad
- Americans for Euthanasia
- Pro-Life Around the World
- Healthcare Serial Killers
- Pro-Life on the Home Front
- Walz Ends All Protections
- Attacker Finally Caught
- AAPLOG Fights for APR
- Good News
- The Little Olympians
PRI in the Media
Appearance on EWTN: On July 31st, PRI President Steven Mosher joined Fr. Mitch Pacwa on EWTN Live. Their conversation ranged from PRI’s lifesaving work to the history of the Chinese Communist Party described in Mosher’s latest book, The Devil and Communist China. Viewers were able to participate and ask questions, including:
- Do the messages from Fatima have a connection to Communist China?
- Is there any chance that America could devolve into a society like Communist China’s?
- Does the Vatican receive money from Communist China?
- How does God work through all of the atrocities committed in China?
Watch the episode to get the answers!
Ties to China: Information about Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has flooded news platforms since he was chosen as Kamala Harris’s running mate for the 2024 election. However, many platforms supporting Walz are leaving out key information about his ties to China. Walz first traveled to China in 1989 and spent a year living there. He subsequently made dozens of trips back as part of student exchange programs. Notably, Walz chose to be married on the fifth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre, after which he and his wife honeymooned in Communist China. In 2014, Walz addressed the massacre, only saying that he felt it was “more important than ever” to be in China after the killing. Walz did not address the horror of the event, which Mr. Mosher described for Breitbart News Tonight on the 30th anniversary of the massacre.
“There were tanks rolling into crowds of people at high speed, crushing them into literally hamburgers,” said PRI President Steven Mosher in 2019. “The streets had to be scraped afterward with bulldozers to get off the remains of the human beings who were killed by these tanks that ran over them. The butchery was horrible.”
“It is nothing short of weird that Walz chose the anniversary of the bloody Tiananmen Massacre as the date on which he was to be married,” Mr. Mosher adds today. “Wedding anniversaries are supposed to be celebrations, not times of mourning, which the Tiananmen anniversary is for tens of millions of Chinese.”
Deepening Depopulation
More Vietnamese Babies: Vietnam is the latest country to roll out propaganda to improve its falling fertility rates. Like China, Vietnam had previously employed birth restrictions that have resulted in a declining number of births and an aging society. These restrictions have been loosened as the health ministry now admits that families should be allowed to have as many children as they wish. The state television has also broadcast dating shows that culminate with wedding bells, hoping to motivate marriages in real life. Officials have started offering financial support for women during maternity leave and school tuition assistance. The propaganda posters that once promoted two children or fewer have been replaced with those encouraging women to have more babies. Incentives can only go so far though, as we have seen in multiple countries worldwide. Vietnam needs to focus on building a Culture of Life, with less government interference in the reproductive lives of its citizens.
Attacking Large Families: Recently, The Times went after big families by publishing a highly critical feature on “Ballerina Farm,” the social media username for influencer Hannah Neeleman. Alongside her husband, Daniel Neeleman, Hannah runs a farm and business in rural Utah, while sharing their life on various social media platforms. The Times piece, which portrayed Hannah as a slave to her husband and eight children, immediately blew up across the Internet. The Times inadvertently exposed the inherent bias of modernity against stay-at-home mothers and large families. While the current drama surrounding the Neelemans will eventually blow over, the underlying disapproval of marriage and family has become entrenched in our society.
Communist China
Doomsday Degree: China’s Civil Affairs University has announced a new marriage program to promote and develop marriage-related culture, in an effort to reverse the country’s falling birth rates. This undergraduate program, scheduled to roll out in September, aims to “cultivate professionals to develop marriage-related industries and culture.” This new approach is a reaction to the record-low marriage rate of 2022 and the significant birth rate dip in 2023. However, Chinese citizens are not reacting positively to the announcement of this new program. There has been widespread condemnation on social media, from citizens who see the degree as pointless in an era of declining marriage rates. As one Chinese citizen stated on Weibo, “This industry is not just a sunset, it’s doomsday.”
Science Gone Mad
Americans for Euthanasia: A new poll from Gallup shows that just over 7-in-10 Americans believe doctors should be “allowed by law to end the patient’s life by some painless means if the patient and his or her family request it.” Slightly fewer Americans, 66%, believe that doctors should “be allowed by law to assist the patient to commit suicide.” Although these results are consistent with the last decade, before 2014, fewer Americans found these processes acceptable. Gallup has been following public opinion on “doctors ending a patient’s life through painless means” since 1947. At that time, 37% of Americans were in favor. Those who are in favor often also believe that death is merciful for those who suffer. Yet, as euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide become more normalized, many now hold the opinion that those who suffer are not worth keeping alive. This idea that a fellow human can be considered unworthy of life is intrinsically wrong.
Pro-Life Around the World
Healthcare Serial Killers: According to a U.K. professor, Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) euthanasia law enables healthcare serial killers (HSK). This week, Professor Christopher Lyon, who teaches at the University of York in the U.K., published this research and conclusion on the HEC Forum. As Professor Lyons explains, HSK is not a new phenomenon, but legalizing euthanasia allows for HSK to go undetected. Beyond the risk of HSK, there are even more dangers with programs like MAiD. Doctors are receiving financial incentives as euthanasia providers. Today, some doctors have also received notoriety for their work, creating another avenue for monetization through writing and public speaking.
Pro-Life on the Home Front
Walz Ends All Protections: Last year, Tim Walz played a major role in making Minnesota a pro-abortion state. In May 2023, Walz signed SF2995 into law. This piece of legislation ended much of Minnesota’s remaining pro-life laws. Unsurprisingly, the number of abortions increased by 37% in Minnesota in the months that followed. SF2995 effectively repealed Minnesota’s informed-consent law. It also reduced women’s alternatives to abortions by eliminating “Positive Alternatives”, a grant program that provided over $3 million to pregnancy resource centers in the state. The bill further repealed the Born Alive Infant Protection Act, despite at least eight babies surviving abortion attempts during Walz’s time as governor. Lastly, SF2995 reduced state oversight of abortion. Minnesota no longer has to report the reasons women seek abortions, the number of prior abortions women had, or the number of babies who survived abortion attempts.
“I would have thought it impossible for Kamala to find a running mate more pro-abortion than she is,” says Mr. Mosher. “But it appears that in Tim Walz’s case, she has done so. Who but an abortion-loving fanatic would not want to protect women from coerced abortions? Was he taking a page from China’s one-child policy playbook here?”
Attacker Finally Caught: After more than a year, the Baltimore City police have finally made an arrest in an assault of two elderly Catholic pro-life activists outside a downtown Planned Parenthood center. In an email sent on July 31st, Detective Freddie Talbert told Catholic Review that city police arrested Patrick Brice, 27, on July 1 for the assault of the two men. Brice, who is scheduled for a preliminary hearing on August 1st, has been charged with first-degree felony assault, two counts of second-degree assault, and two counts of assault on elderly 65 and older.
“I am glad that the Baltimore City police finally made an arrest in this case, protecting the constitutional rights of Americans to peacefully protest,” says Mr. Mosher. “But why did it take so long? If the pro-lifers had somehow been at fault—which they weren’t—they would have long since been in jail. We have a two-tiered justice system in the U.S. now, it seems.”
AAPLOG Fights for APR: As the abortion pill increasingly replaces surgical abortions in the U.S., a group of doctors is promoting “abortion pill reversal” (APR) for women who regret their abortion decision. APR offers a way to save an unborn baby’s life before the chemical abortion is complete. APR involves administering progesterone, which counteracts the effects of the first drug in the abortion pill regimen. This is the same technique used to prevent miscarriages since the 1950s and specifically for abortion pill reversal for 15 years. The American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists (AAPLOG), supported by a $100,000 grant from the Heritage Foundation, is leading efforts to educate women about APR through their Abortion Pill Reversal Education and Recruitment project. With about 1,400 medical professionals and centers in the APR network and an upcoming online course for hospitals and doctors, AAPLOG aims to expand awareness, while helping women and saving babies from the results of chemical abortions.
For more information on the abortion pill, read our Abortion Pill Fact Sheet.
For information and resources for APR, read Abortion Pill Reversal, Yes It Works!
Good News
The Little Olympians: This year at the Olympics, several female athletes proved that pregnancy does not hold women back from their dreams. Nada Hafez, an Egyptian fencing Olympian, revealed that she was seven months pregnant after winning the first round of the women’s individual sabre. In a post on Instagram, Hafez stated, “What appears to you as two players on the podium, they were actually three! It was me, my competitor, & my yet-to-come to our world, little baby!” Azerbaijan archer Yaylagul Ramazanova was also over six months pregnant when she entered the final 16. Ramazanova shared, “During the training for the Olympics, I didn’t feel uncomfortable with my pregnancy. Instead, I felt that I was not fighting alone, but fighting together with my baby.”
Quote of the Week
“Upright and skillful doctors strive most praiseworthily to guard and preserve the lives of both mother and child; on the contrary, those show themselves most unworthy of the noble medical profession who encompass the death of one or the other, through a pretense at practicing medicine or through motives of misguided pity.”
~Pope Pius XI, Casti Connubi
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