PRI Staff

From the Countries: Abortion Numbers Decline

A new abortion study, “Induced Abortion Rates and Trends Worldwide,” was published in The Lancet recently. The study was a collaborative effort between the Guttmacher Institute and the World Health Organization. It was completed with the intention of documenting trends worldwide. Researchers found that between

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Global Monitor: Abortion in America

The Centers for Disease Control recently came out with their data concerning the number and characteristics of women getting abortions in the United States. The report, covering the year 2004 (the most recent year their data covers), showed a very slight decline in the abortion

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President’s Page: Remembering Henry Hyde

One of the first times that I spoke to a pro-life group—back in the mid-eighties, I believe—Congressman Henry Hyde was there. The occasion was a Los Angeles Archdiocesan Pro-Life Congress. (This event, which the tireless Licia Nicassio formerly organized on an annual basis, has been

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Reproductive Health Mortality

Population controllers are constantly talking about “reproductive health,” and their burning desire to reduce maternal mortality worldwide. This is the excuse that they use for pushing contraception, legalized abortion, and sterilization on developing countries all over the world. However, this is simply a ploy to

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Saving the Mexico City Policy

Pro-lifers scored a significant victory in Congress recently, a victory due to a courageous stand made by pro-life congressmen and senators, and ultimately the President, against massive opposition. Gutting the Mexico City Policy Earlier in 2007, legislation intended to gut the Mexico City Policy sailed

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The Mexico City Policy: A Short History

1984: President Ronald Reagan passed the Mexico City Policy. The Policy required nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to agree as a condition of their receipt of federal funds that such organizations would neither perform nor actively promote abortion as a method of family planning in other nations.

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Preserving Parental Rights in Panama

  31 December 2007     Vol. 9 / No. 48 Dear Colleague, We report today on a pro-life victory in Panama, where PRI assisted local pro-lifers in turning back a UNFPA-sponsored attack upon the family. Happy New Year! Steven W. Mosher Preserving Parental Rights in Panama

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Saving the Mexico City Policy

Vol. 9 / No. 47 Dear Colleague, Faced with a presidential veto, the pro-aborts caved. Language fatally weakening the Mexico City policy has been removed from the omnibus bill that will fund the federal government for the next year. The original Mexico City policy, and

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Reproductive Health Mortality

Population controllers are constantly talking about “reproductive health,” and their burning desire to reduce maternal mortality worldwide. This is the excuse that they use for

Read More »

Saving the Mexico City Policy

Pro-lifers scored a significant victory in Congress recently, a victory due to a courageous stand made by pro-life congressmen and senators, and ultimately the President,

Read More »

Saving the Mexico City Policy

Vol. 9 / No. 47 Dear Colleague, Faced with a presidential veto, the pro-aborts caved. Language fatally weakening the Mexico City policy has been removed

Read More »