PRI Staff

Check the pulse: An update on heartbeat legislation

Heartbeat legislation, which places restrictions on abortion once a fetal heartbeat can be detected, continues to move forward. The month of March has been particularly busy. The Alabama House of Representatives passed heartbeat legislation, while a heartbeat bill was reintroduced in the Ohio state Senate. And while

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Why Won’t Michelle Obama Defend Chinese Women?

When Michelle Obama arrives in Beijing today with her two daughters, Sasha and Malia, she will be the envy of Chinese women. She has what almost none of them have. Not only does she have two children—most urban Chinese are limited to one—but she has

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PRI Launches Campaign to Help Women in China

Population Research Institute has launched a new “activism page” in conjunction with the publication of the second edition of Steven Mosher’s book, A Mother’s Ordeal. A modern classic, the book is a biography of a young one-child-policy enforcer in China. It provides a raw and

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Newly Released Book Recounts Reproductive Cruelties in China

WASHINGTON, D.C.: Population Research Institute is pleased to announce the release of the second edition of Steven Mosher’s best-selling book, A Mother’s Ordeal: One Woman’s Fight Against China’s One-Child Policy, complete with a new preface by the author.  A Mother’s Ordeal brings home the suffering

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Justice Denied in Peru’s Sterilization Campaign

Fifteen years ago, Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori, with the strong encouragement of the Clinton administration, ordered a nationwide sterilization campaign. At least 300,000 women were sterilized by “mobile sterilization teams” on a Chinese model, many under duress. Some died. PRI sent a team of investigators into the

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On Abortion and Maternal Mortality

“The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.” —Mark Twain Nothing will build the legitimacy of your arguments more than using terms correctly, and nothing will destroy it faster than using terms incorrectly.

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Fact Sheet: “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act”

  What is the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act? The "No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion" is a current bill in Congress that would keep federal funds from paying for abortions. It would codify the Hyde Amendment. The Hyde Amendment prevents federal taxpayer funds from funding abortions.

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Winter Games in a Wintering Nation

Reports of terrorist threats, human rights abuses, and general economic incompetency have already marred the opening of the 2014 winter Olympics. These failings in Russia represent the face of the greatest myth propagated this past half-century: that low-fertility creates a successful society. Population controllers lure

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Triumph for Independence and Life in Peru

  LIMA, PERU. Population Research Institute (PRI) exposed an an illegal pro-abortion website and had it removed. Abortion is currently illegal in the christian country of Peru, but the international population control movement tried to give desperate Peruvian women empty solutions via a blog acting

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PRI Takes Down Abortion-Promoting Blog

For some years now, the abortion movement has been setting up so-called “safe abortion hotlines” in Latin American countries, and secretly (and illegally) advertising them on the internet. In Peru, the offensive website was under the domain of Blogspot, and it relentlessly promoted abortion. Women

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