In This Issue:
- PRI in the Media
- From DNC to CCP
- Horror in China
- A Solution for Miseducation
- Deepening Depopulation
- An Objective Issue
- Communist China
- Rotten Tail Kids
- UN Misdeeds
- Feminists Against the UN
- Science Gone Mad
- Double the Risk
- Hospital Loses Embryo
- Top Myths Debunked
- Pro-Life Around the World
- Dangerous Suicide Movement
- Pro-Life on the Home Front
- Quick Fact Check
- Secret Abortion Network
- Walz’s Wife Shares the Truth
- Good News
- Little One Comes Home
PRI in the Media
From DNC to CCP: Last week, PRI President Steven Mosher joined Jake Smith on Your News Talk America. The conversation ranged from the Democratic National Convention to the Chinese Communist Party’s control over the Catholic Church in China. Mr. Mosher answered a variety of questions, including:
- What was your response to the presence of Planned Parenthood at the DNC and the availability of chemical abortions and vasectomies for attendees to the COMM-Vention?
- Is Tim Walz an agent of Chinese communist influence?
- Is that a good idea given the CCP’s control over the Catholic Church in China, such as their control over appointing CCP-approved Bishops and Cardinals?
Watch the full show to get the answers!
Horror in China: Last week, Mr. Mosher joined Say Yes to Life to share the horrors of Chinese communism and the CCP’s one-child policy. Upon his arrival in 1979, as the first social scientist allowed to enter China for anthropological research, Mr. Mosher quickly learned that communism had already caused great suffering for Chinese citizens. The following year, Mr. Mosher witnessed the beginning of the brutal one-child policy, including arrests for the “crime” of being pregnant, forced abortions, and forced sterilizations. An estimated 400 million unborn babies were aborted over the course of the one-child policy, and approximately 16 million women were sterilized. Being a witness to such brutality sparked Mr. Mosher’s dedication to expose the CCP, and began Mr. Mosher’s career as a pro-life leader, determined to save women and babies from coercive population control around the world.
For a firsthand account of China’s population control, request a copy of Mr. Mosher’s book: A Mother’s Ordeal: One Woman’s Fight Against China’s One-Child Policy.
A Solution for Miseducation: Souls & Liberty has released a review of The Devil and Communist China. The platform describes the work as part history, part theology, and part autobiography. But in Mr. Mosher’s own words, The Devil and Communist China is “a cautionary tale of the evil that awaits us if we abandon God.” This book is the solution to those who have been “miseducated, indeed propagandized, by the schools and by social media into believing that Communism is not entirely bad and that true evil doesn’t exist.”
Deepening Depopulation
An Objective Issue: As we’ve reported in recent weeks, the U.S. birth rate, the number of children born in 2023, hit a record low last year. Now, the fertility rate, the average number of children an American woman will have during her reproductive lifetime, has been estimated and released as well. This figure is still solidly below replacement at 1.7. Yet, the debate amongst the public continues on whether this should be concerning or not. One population researcher claimed that falling fertility is a “positive development” because “not having children, or having fewer children, is becoming more socially acceptable” and “as a result, people are weighing more carefully the decision to have children.” This interpretation doesn’t address the objectively major concern of how an aging population will increase labor shortages and place more strain on healthcare and retirement systems.
Communist China
Rotten Tail Kids: China’s unemployed young adults have been given a new nickname: “rotten tail” kids. The term represents how the youth feel about working hard for a future that isn’t delivering on its promises. Many young adults moved back home after graduation to be “full-time children,” economically dependent on their aging parents. Earlier this year, Xi Jinping vowed that employment was a top priority for the CCP. But the slew of new policies he rolled out in a bid to encourage more hiring, including job fairs and incentives for employers, have done little to fix the unemployment rate. In July, unemployment rates actually rose to 17.1% among 16-24 year-olds.
UN Misdeeds
Feminists Against the UN: Feminist groups have taken issue with UN agencies over two major issues: surrogacy and gender ideology. The Women’s Liberation Front, Women’s Declaration International, RadFem Italia, and other allied groups have recently written two open letters criticizing UN agencies for their promotion of these. In the letter regarding surrogacy, the groups pointed out that gestational surrogacy is incompatible with existing human rights standards, including the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which states that children have the right to know their parents. In the letter about gender ideology, these groups addressed UN Women specifically, stating that it “should support the work of women for women’s rights, not tell women that they need to place their concerns secondary to a newly declared group whose main aim is to claim women’s rights for men.” The letter went on to clearly state, “Cutting off healthy body parts of children, sterilizing them, and putting opposite sex hormones into their bodies is NOT ‘healthcare’.” These letters highlight the stark division amongst feminist activists regarding UN decisions.
Science Gone Mad
Double the Risk: A new study has revealed that in vitro fertilization (IVF) pregnancies have double the risk of preterm birth in certain cases. The study, which appeared in JAMA Network Open, analyzed nearly 79 million hospital deliveries in the United States over two decades. Women who conceive through IVF and experience a serious pregnancy complication are twice as likely to deliver early (before 37 weeks) compared to those with only one of those factors. Researchers concluded this after finding that women who conceive through artificial reproductive technologies (ART) have a 42% higher risk of experiencing placental abruption and a 46% higher risk of experiencing preterm birth, compared to women who conceive naturally. Pregnancies resulting from ART are on the rise, even as research continues to reveal the increased risks to the mothers and babies involved.
Hospital Loses Embryo: A couple has planned to sue the fertility clinic that lost their last embryo. Mary and Jimmy Gorman had been trying to have a baby for years and decided to try in vitro fertilization (IVF). The couple paid over $70,000 and spent nine months undergoing hormone injections to retrieve two viable embryos. In February, Mary had the first embryo transferred, but the process was unsuccessful. When the couple returned in May for the second attempt, the clinic informed them that the embryo had been lost. Though the details of what exactly happened to the Gorman’s embryo are unknown, it is suspected that a mistake was made during the transfer of all the clinic’s embryos to a new storage facility in mid-2023. This exposes the lack of regulation in IVF clinics and the mishandling of small human lives that subsequently occurs.
Top Myths Debunked: One of the main tactics used by the pro-abortion movement is the dehumanization of the unborn human person. This dehumanization has enabled pro-abortion activists to justify the violence of abortion. In response to this tactic, Live Action has taken the top myths regarding prenatal development and debunked them. These myths include:
- A child in the womb is just a ‘clump of cells.’
- The preborn child’s heartbeat is just ‘manufactured sound.’
- Babies can’t feel pain until very late in pregnancy.
- Babies in the womb aren’t ‘conscious’ beings.
These statements are all wildly incorrect. As science and medical technology have advanced, so too has our understanding of what is really going on in the womb.
Pro-Life Around the World
Dangerous Suicide Movement: A BBC investigation has uncovered that over 700 people in the UK have used a pro-suicide website to seek partners for ending their lives. The site features a “partners thread” where users post personal details and methods of suicide, which has led to multiple joint deaths. The website has also been exploited by predators to target vulnerable individuals. Despite the clear evidence of illegal activity being coordinated through this website, the government has not shut down the operation as of yet. Earlier this year, the Online Safety Act in 2023 to combat dangerous websites such as this one. However, deliberations on how best to implement the law are still going on, while the website continues to operate.
Pro-Life on the Home Front
Quick Fact Check: Vice President Kamala Harris has claimed that “Donald Trump’s abortion bans unleashed a health care crisis for women across our nation.” But here’s a quick fact check. Maternal mortality fell by 32% in the year of Roe v. Wade’s overturn. Furthermore, women who have abortions are actually more at risk for other health issues. Women who have abortions are between 45% and 191% more likely to die young than those who deliver their children. While correlation does not determine causation, it is still a link. Either way, abortions harm women, physically or mentally, and always aim to end human life in the womb.
“Banning abortions not only saves the lives of unborn children, as everyone knows, it also saves the lives of their mothers,” says Mr. Mosher. “Save the child and the child will often save the mother.”
Secret Abortion Network: One of the world’s abortion giants has launched a new campaign in the U.S. to enable children and teens to get abortions without their parents knowing. MSI Reproductive Choices (formerly Marie Stopes International) has launched a new platform for this campaign, called the “Vagina Privacy Network.” In conjunction with this launch, the pro-abortion giant partnered with Advocates for Youth to give out untraceable phones at events in the states that were pre-programmed with a guide on how to get abortions without parents or family members knowing. The tips in the guide included ‘downloading a secure web browser’, messaging through encrypted software, and using a ‘burner phone’, which uses prepaid minutes and no formal contract with the communications provider.
“Children should not be receiving any medication treatment without their parents’ foreknowledge and consent,” says Mr. Mosher. “This is especially true in the case of a life-changing event like an abortion. The attorney generals of states in which such actions are illegal should take action against such reckless endangerment of minors.”
Walz’s Wife Shares the Truth: For weeks, Tim Walz has been implying a personal connection to in vitro fertilization (IVF), while advocating for the procedure. In April, a Walz gubernatorial fundraising plea even claimed that his family “used IVF.” However, Tim’s wife, Gwen Walz, recently set the record straight. Mrs. Walz clarified that they did not use IVF, but instead a procedure called intrauterine insemination (IUI). IUI is the administration of a sperm sample directly into the uterus during ovulation to increase the chances of fertilization. This procedure does not involve the creation of embryos and has not been threatened by the recent Alabama Supreme Court ruling.
“No one is talking about banning procedures like intrauterine insemination to help couples overcome infertility,” says Mr. Mosher. “So Walz was obviously embroidering his story for political gain. Unfortunately, such misrepresentations—to put it mildly—are part of a long pattern of deception on the part of the Democrat Vice Presidential Nominee. Claiming to be a higher military rank than he actually retired at, claiming to have carried weapons of war in combat when he was never in theater—the list grows longer each day. One hopes that, at some point, the media will start doing their jobs again and correct the record.”
Good News
Little One Comes Home: A baby boy whose parents were told that he may not survive the night of his birth has gone home after almost a year in hospital. The baby’s mother, Lilly Pearce, went into labor unexpectedly at 23 weeks and six days. Her son, Bobby, was born at just shy of 24 weeks, weighing 577 grams, just over half a bag of sugar, and was a similar size to his father’s hand. Bobby immediately defied expectations by crying at birth, despite his parents having been told that he wouldn’t due to his underdeveloped lungs. He then defied the doctors’ expectations again by surviving the night. Bobby ended up spending six months in the neonatal intensive care unit and four months in pediatric high dependency. During this time, his parents were told multiple times that he would never go home with them. However, after spending 314 days in hospital, Bobby was recently able to come home with his parents and he continues to grow stronger each day.
Quote of the Week
“I certainly do try to make good use of the time that God has given me on this good earth. We are all here to make a difference, after all, by promoting the good, the true and the beautiful. And the greatest good is Life itself.”
~ PRI President Steven Mosher
