In This Issue:
- PRI in the Media
- The Fall of China’s Power
- Gen Z Lost Millions to Abortion
- Deepening Depopulation
- Lowest Births Since 1855
- Europe Is Dying
- Fewest Babies in Greece
- Communist China
- Baby Bonus Falls Flat
- Weaponizing Youth Against Faith
- Science Gone Mad
- Embryo Filmed, Life Discarded
- 2.8 Million Identify as Transgender
- Pro-Life Around the World
- Korean Bishops Defend Unborn
- Abortion Pill Push in Kenya
- Abortion Doubles Psychiatric Risk
- Pro-Life on the Home Front
- Texas Targets Abortion Pill Traffickers
- Illinois Mandates Abortion on Campuses
- Senators Sound Alarm on Pill
- Good News
- 23-Week Miracle Baby Survives
PRI in the Media
The Fall of China’s Power: Recently, PRI President Steven Mosher appeared on I’m Right with Jesse Kelly on The First TV to discuss the looming collapse of Communist China. He explained that China’s once-vaunted strategy is faltering as U.S. tariffs have crippled its export economy. With wars abroad no longer draining American resources, China now faces the united West alone. Mr. Mosher explains that even more alarming is China’s internal economic crisis: one-third of its businesses are losing money daily, triggering wage delays and supply chain breakdowns. According to Mr. Mosher, this toxic combination of external pressure and internal decay has left China on shaky ground, with the Communist regime facing the very real prospect of catastrophic collapse.
Gen Z Lost Millions to Abortion: In his latest article, PRI President Steven Mosher has exposed the devastating toll abortion has taken on America’s youngest generations. According to this analysis, roughly 21% of Gen Z and 18% of Gen Alpha were aborted—meaning each generation is missing nearly one in five of its members. Mr. Mosher warns that this loss has fueled unprecedented levels of stress, depression, and isolation among today’s youth. In addition, abortion rates among surviving Gen Z members remain alarmingly high. By 2022, half of all Gen Z pregnancies ended in abortion, according to the Office for National Statistics. Mr. Mosher calls for decisive action: ending abortion, making childbirth free, and eliminating taxes for families who raise children.
Deepening Depopulation
Lowest Births Since 1855: Scotland’s birth rate has collapsed to its lowest level since records began in 1855, with just 45,763 live births registered in 2024—down from the previous year. Deaths outpaced births by more than 16,500, underscoring the scale of demographic decline. The fertility rate also fell to 1.25 children per woman, barely half the 2.1 needed for population replacement. Edinburgh recorded the lowest rate in the nation’s history at just 0.99. Once dominated by mothers in their 20s, most births now occur among women in their 30s, marking a profound shift in family formation and signaling long-term population decline for Scotland.
“The Romans were never able to conquer Scotland,” says Mr. Mosher. “That’s why, 70 years after conquering Britain, the Emperor Hadrian built the wall that bears his name in 142 A.D. Today, in the silence of the Scottish maternity wards, one hears the sound of Scotland dying.”
Europe Is Dying: Europe is facing demographic collapse. Since 2012, EU deaths have outnumbered births every year, with the population now propped up only by mass immigration—2.3 million migrants were added in 2024 alone. Abortion rates continue to soar, churches are emptying, and family life is crumbling. Demographers warn of devastating consequences: shrinking economies, collapsing pensions, and strained healthcare for an ageing population. Historian Dr. Jim Penman compares this crisis to the fall of Rome, where low birth rates helped doom the empire. Unless restored by traditional families, Europe’s fate appears sealed.
“The ongoing demographic collapse of Europe is accelerating,” says Mr. Mosher. “But the Europeans are not really ‘dying on their feet’, but are rather dying in their beds. Similar to the Roman elite of the late empire, they are having far too much unchaste sex, far too many abortions and infanticides, and far too few offspring.”
Fewest Babies in Greece: Greece’s population is collapsing, with nearly half a million people lost since 2011, according to a new University of Thessaly report. Births plunged to just 72,300 in 2023, half the yearly average of the 1950s–70s. While deaths now exceed births every year, a trend projected to continue until at least 2050. Fertility is among the lowest in Europe, with 23% of Greeks now over 65, nearly one million more than children under 14. Combined with low wages, unaffordable housing, and meager family support, Greece’s demographic freefall threatens the nation’s long-term survival.
Communist China
Baby Bonus Falls Flat: China has launched its first nationwide child subsidy—3,600 yuan ($500) per year per child under age three—in a desperate attempt to slow its population collapse. But parents say the payment barely covers diapers, let alone the staggering cost of raising a child, estimated at 538,000 yuan ($75,200). With births plunging to record lows and deaths projected to continue to outpace births, analysts warn cash handouts will not reverse the nation’s demographic freefall. Instead, the “motherhood penalty,” high housing costs, and collapsing family life continue driving China’s fertility crisis.
“There are some problems money can’t solve,” says Mr. Mosher. “Subsidies this size only help at the margins, if at all. It’s not just the economics of raising children that is driving the birth rate down in China, although with the Chinese economy falling into a recession and unemployment rates rising, that is certainly a factor. It is also a culture that, after nearly forty years of anti-baby propaganda, is profoundly anti-marriage and anti-family.”
Weaponizing Youth Against Faith: In Shanghai’s Baoshang District, Chinese authorities staged a disturbing campaign where elementary school children were trained to perform skits, recite slogans, and spread propaganda against so-called “xie jiao” and “illegal religion.” Far from education, this is state-sponsored indoctrination designed to instill fear and hostility toward faith. Scholars warn that mobilizing children in ideological warfare violates international norms, including the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. By weaponizing its youth against religion, the CCP reveals its desperation to stamp out belief and enforce conformity.
“From its very beginning in the 1920s, the Chinese Communist Party has been waging a war for the souls of Chinese children,” said Mr. Mosher. “Children were and are being indoctrinated by means of songs, dances, and propaganda plays to love the Party and hate its enemies, chief among which is our Heavenly Father.”
Science Gone Mad
Embryo Filmed, Life Discarded: Spanish researchers have, for the first time, captured in real time and 3D the moment a human embryo implants in the womb. Scientists at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) say the process helps explain why failed implantation causes up to 60% of miscarriages. Yet this so-called breakthrough comes at a grave ethical cost: the embryos used were created through IVF and never destined for birth, but discarded after experimentation. The Catholic Church condemns IVF as a grave offense against life, since countless embryos are routinely destroyed or exploited.
2.8 Million Identify as Transgender: A new study from UCLA’s Williams Institute finds that 2.8 million Americans—about 1% of the population—now identify as transgender, with over three-quarters under age 35. Strikingly, 3.3% of teens 13–17 identify as transgender, compared to just 0.4% of adults 35–64 and 0.3% of seniors. Researchers like Dr. Lisa Littman have linked this sharp generational divide to “social contagion,” fueled by peer influence and heavy online exposure. Surveys show nearly a quarter of Gen Z now identify as LGBT, highlighting a cultural shift that is reshaping American family life and deepening divisions over sexuality and gender.
Pro-Life Around the World
Korean Bishops Defend Unborn: South Korea’s Catholic bishops are sounding the alarm over a proposed amendment to the nation’s abortion law that would legalize abortion on demand and even cover it under national health insurance. The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Korea (CBCK) blasted the bill, introduced by Democratic Party lawmaker Nam In-soon, for softening language from “artificial intervention for abortion” to “artificial termination of pregnancy,” warning it trivializes the killing of unborn children. The bishops warned that the measure violates the Constitution’s protection of human dignity and life, risks women’s health, and would only fuel higher abortion rates.
“Catholics are roughly 25 percent of the population of South Korea,” says Mr. Mosher. “Let us pray that they stand united against this assault on the innocent unborn. This new law, pushed by South Korea’s left-wing party, arguably contravenes the country’s Constitution, not to mention its efforts to raise the birth rate. South Korea already has one of the lowest birth rates in the world.”
Abortion Pill Push in Kenya: Catholic activists in Kenya have launched a campaign against IPAS Africa Alliance, accusing the group of flooding pharmacies, schools, and slums with abortion pills disguised as “healthcare,” in defiance of Kenya’s pro-life laws. CitizenGO Africa’s Ann Kioko warned that the foreign-funded group exploits vulnerable women and minors by turning pharmacies into illegal abortion outlets, distributing pills without prescriptions, scans, or doctor oversight—even through WhatsApp. She described the trauma women suffer when complications strike alone and unaided. CitizenGO’s petition calls for swift government action to defend life, protect youth, and uphold Kenya’s pro-life values.
Abortion Doubles Psychiatric Risk: A new study in the Journal of Psychiatric Research confirms what pro-lifers have long warned: abortion devastates women’s mental health. Tracking over 1.2 million pregnancies in Quebec, researchers found women who aborted were more than twice as likely to be hospitalized for psychiatric disorders, substance abuse, or suicide attempts compared to women who gave birth. For every 10,000 women tracked over time, about 104 who had abortions ended up hospitalized for mental health issues, compared to just 42 who gave birth. The risk was highest in the first five years and increased with repeat abortions. Adding to mounting U.S. data, this study underscores that abortion—not childbirth—leaves deep and lasting scars on women’s bodies, minds, and souls.
Pro-Life on the Home Front
Texas Targets Abortion Pill Traffickers: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is cracking down on the abortion pill black market, issuing cease-and-desist orders to groups like Plan C, Her Safe Harbor, and affiliates of Aid Access for illegally promoting and mailing abortion drugs into the state. Paxton warned violators face lawsuits and fines of at least $100,000 per offense, stressing that “Texas will not tolerate the murdering of innocent life through illegal drug trafficking.” His action follows tragic cases in which abortion pills caused life-threatening harm to women and the death of their unborn children. Paxton is committed to defending Texas’s pro-life protections, ensuring no unborn child is killed through this dangerous underground trade.
Illinois Mandates Abortion on Campuses: Illinois Governor JB Pritzker has signed a series of sweeping pro-abortion bills, further cementing the state as one of the most radical abortion havens in America. One new law ensures abortion pills remain legal in Illinois as long as they are approved by the World Health Organization—even if the FDA revokes U.S. approval. Another mandates that public colleges and universities distribute abortion pills on campus, encouraging young women to undergo chemical abortions alone in dorm rooms without physician oversight. With abortion legal up to “viability” and for vague “health” reasons afterward, no licensing requirements for clinics, and mandated insurance coverage, Illinois has erased virtually all safeguards for women and their unborn babies.
Senators Sound Alarm on Pill: Three Republican senators—Steve Daines, Marsha Blackburn, and Jim Banks—are calling on Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate abortion pill manufacturers for deceiving women about the safety of Mifepristone. New research from the Ethics and Public Policy Center shows women suffer complications at rates 22 times higher than the FDA labels admit. With two-thirds of abortions now chemical, loosened safeguards and waived reporting requirements put countless women at risk. The senators demand swift DOJ action to hold manufacturers accountable and protect women from the deadly drug.
Good News
23-Week Miracle Baby Survives: Against all odds, baby Angelisse, born at just 23 weeks and weighing 1 lb. 4 oz., has gone home after five months in intensive care. Doctors gave her only a 30% chance of survival, yet she beat the odds without major complications. Her mother calls her life a miracle. Her resilience is a powerful testament to the value of every child. Stories like Angelisse’s prove that even the smallest and most fragile lives deserve protection and care.
Quote of the Week
“The wages of not just ignoring but viciously trampling upon the first three commandments, which outline the love, respect, and time owed to God, have resulted in countless deaths, including spiritual ones.”
~ PRI President Steven Mosher
