In This Issue:
- PRI in the Media
- CCP Influence Reaches U.S. Catholics
- Deepening Depopulation
- Hong Kong Births Fall Below 30,000
- Communist China
- China Continues Christian Crackdown
- UN Misdeeds
- U.S. Leads Global Pro-Life Coalition
- Science Gone Mad
- Surrogate Mother Chooses Life
- Pro-Life Around the World
- Archdiocese Demands Dignity for Aborted Babies
- Australia Revives Born-Alive Protections
- Pro-Life on the Home Front
- Democrats Call Abortion Law “Barbaric”
- Oklahoma Makes Abortion Pill Trafficking Felony
- Indiana Allows Abortion Referrals for Minors
- Good News
- Australia’s Youngest Preemie Survives
- PRI Research & Resources
- Inside DKT’s Global Abortion Network
PRI in the Media
CCP Influence Reaches U.S. Catholics: This week, PRI President Steven Mosher’s op-ed about the growing Chinese Communist Party influence over the U.S.–China Catholic Association was featured in The Epoch Times. Mr. Mosher highlighted the removal of religious freedom scholar Fenggang Yang from a USCCA conference after Chinese officials objected to his participation. He argued that the incident reflects the CCP’s United Front strategy of silencing critics abroad while promoting its “Sinicization” campaign and shaping Western perceptions of religious persecution in China.
Deepening Depopulation
Hong Kong Births Fall Below 30,000: Hong Kong recorded just 29,709 births from July 2025 through June 2026, falling below 30,000 for the first time on record and less than half the 59,863 births recorded a decade ago. The decline comes despite the government’s HK$20,000 baby bonus for newborns. Officials have also expanded tax allowances for parents and prioritized families with newborns for public housing.
Communist China
China Continues Christian Crackdown: Pastor Ezra Jin Mingri, founder of China’s Zion Church, was released after 266 days in detention following President Trump’s personal appeal to Xi Jinping. Zion Church grew from 1,500 to more than 10,000 worshipers across 40 cities after authorities forced it to go mostly virtual. Eight church leaders remain imprisoned as the Chinese Communist Party continues its crackdown on unauthorized Christian churches.
“I was very happy to see that Pastor Ezra Jin was released from prison in China at President Trump’s request,” said Mr. Mosher. “But, as I write in my forthcoming book, The Underground Church, the walls are closing in on believers in China. Every church in the country has to have security cameras installed inside the sanctuary so that the Chinese state can monitor who is attending and what is said.”
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UN Misdeeds
U.S. Leads Global Pro-Life Coalition: The Trump administration will again lead the Geneva Consensus Declaration, a coalition affirming that there is “no international right to abortion” and urging the UN to respect pro-life, pro-family principles. Originally signed by 34 nations in 2020, the coalition has grown to 43 despite opposition from the Biden administration and the European Union. Argentina became its newest member this week.
Science Gone Mad
Surrogate Mother Chooses Life: A surrogate mother traveled to Texas to protect the unborn baby she was carrying after the intended parents demanded that she abort him following a heart defect diagnosis at 20 weeks. The baby was born Wednesday and is receiving medical care, but is still under the legal custody of the intended parents. The case highlights the grave dangers of surrogacy, which commodifies human life and leaves vulnerable unborn children subject to abortion clauses in contracts.
Pro-Life Around the World
Archdiocese Demands Dignity for Aborted Babies: The Primatial Archdiocese of Mexico is urging authorities to ensure miscarried, aborted, and unclaimed deceased babies receive a proper burial rather than being abandoned in hospitals, public places, or even the trash. The archdiocese called for legal mechanisms and designated burial sites, stressing that every human body deserves respect and dignity regardless of how brief a child’s life was or the circumstances of death.
“The dehumanization of unborn children does not end with their deaths,” says Mr. Mosher. “It often continues as not just abortionists, but hospitals and other doctors treat their remains as nothing more than ‘biological waste.’ Human beings must always be treated with dignity, in life as well as in death.”
Australia Revives Born-Alive Protections: Federal MP Llew O’Brien has introduced the Human Rights (Children Born Alive Protection) Bill 2026, which would ensure babies born alive following abortions receive the same medical care and legal protections as any other newborn. The renewed push follows the case of Baby Samuel, who was reportedly born alive at 16 weeks after an attempted abortion in Queensland and lived for approximately 30 minutes before dying.
Pro-Life on the Home Front
Democrats Call Abortion Law “Barbaric”: As we previously reported, Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey signed the Prioritizing Patient Access to Care Act, eliminating the state’s previous 24-week abortion limit and allowing abortion until birth. Now, despite the bill passing the House 119–33, nine Democrats who opposed it are drawing attention for speaking out, calling the bill “barbaric and unethical.” Democratic Rep. Jeffrey Turco called the law “extremist and dangerous,” warning that it permits unrestricted and, in many cases, taxpayer-funded abortion until the moment of birth.
“Unfortunately, the ‘average person in Massachusetts’ usually votes for the Party of Abortion,” says Mr. Mosher. “Many aren’t aware that the Democrat Party, under pressure from the Democratic Socialists, has become ever more radical on the issue of Life. Its position is now indistinguishable from that of the Chinese Communist Party.”
Oklahoma Makes Abortion Pill Trafficking Felony: A new Oklahoma law makes knowingly trafficking abortion pills for illegal abortions a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison, a $100,000 fine, or both. Pro-lifers estimate the law could save roughly 4,000 preborn babies annually. HB 1168 targets those illegally distributing drugs such as mifepristone and misoprostol, while exempting women obtaining the drugs for themselves.
“As our new series on the Abortion Pill shows, this deadly drug is not only death to babies, it is dangerous to their mothers,” says Mr. Mosher. “Oklahoma is doing its best to stop the illegal trafficking of the Pill, but the Department of Justice under AG Blanche must help by getting it out of the U.S. postal system.”
Indiana Allows Abortion Referrals for Minors: A federal appeals court ruled that Indiana cannot stop doctors from directing minor girls to out-of-state abortion providers without their parents’ consent, striking down part of the state’s 2017 “aid-or-assist” law. The court cited First Amendment protections, despite Indiana’s efforts to protect parental involvement and unborn children. One judge warned that the ruling undervalues the state’s compelling interest in ensuring parents are involved in such life-altering decisions.
Good News
Australia’s Youngest Preemie Survives: Baby Miracle has become Australia’s most premature baby ever to survive after being born at just 21 weeks and 3 days, weighing only 0.7 pounds. Despite being born at an age when resuscitation is not usually offered, Miracle defied the odds. After 14 weeks in the NICU and additional specialized care, she was discharged home at over four months old and is now thriving.
PRI Research & Resources
Inside DKT’s Global Abortion Network: This week, we highlight PRI’s research on DKT International, described as the leading abortion operating network of the 21st century. Prepared by PRI’s Ibero-America and Europe offices with Origen Vanguardia y Cambio Cultural, the investigation examines DKT’s abortion-related identity, structure, operations, international expansion, and USAID funding. It documents DKT’s shift toward abortion pills, telemedicine, digital platforms, remote guidance, and international distribution networks.
Quote of the Week
“The child is ‘man,’ even if he be not yet born, in the same degree and by the same title as his mother. Besides, every human being, even the child in the womb, has the right to life directly from God and not from his parents, not from any society or human authority. Therefore, there is no man, no human authority, no science, no “indication” at all—whether it be medical, eugenic, social, economic, or moral—that may offer or give a valid judicial title for a direct deliberate disposal of an innocent human life…. never forget this: there rises above every human law and above every ‘indication’ the faultless law of God.”
~ Pope Pius XII, the first pope to use the term “Right to Life.”
