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Graduating Countries from Population Control

September 20, 2002 Volume 4/ Number 23 Dear Colleague: USAID funding of population control programs continues at record levels, designed to drive down fertility rates in developing countries. Yet birth rates in targeted countries like the Dominican Republic and Peru are already low—and falling. Fertility

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Foreign Aid in a Grown Up World

September 12, 2002 Volume 4/ Number 22 Dear Colleague: Global birthrates are falling fast, yet maternal and child mortality rates, largely caused by preventable diseases, remain high. We are not meeting the basic needs of mothers and children, while making every effort to surgically and

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For the Record…

“It is about the Population Research Institute, a small, aggressive, anti-family-planning group that was instrumental in getting President Bush to refuse to release a $34-million appropriation to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). To the Virginia-based institute, USAID, UNFPA and every other major international family

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How Mexico Treats Its Poor Women

For many years, Population Research Institute has received persistent reports that the Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (IMSS) practices coercive family planning, using force and deception to get women to agree to limit the size of their families. We have found similar patterns of coercion

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President’s Page: Graduating from Population Control

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) will spend over $400 million on population control over the coming year, much of this in countries where the total fertility rate (TFR) is only slightly above replacement. Women must average 2.1 children for populations to sustain

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The Population Controllers and Their War on People

For over a decade now, the PRI Review has been the publication of record of the pro-natal movement. We have consistently argued that people are the ultimate resource. We have opposed population control programs that seek to reduce humanity by aborting, sterilizing and contracepting large

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How to Save Lives with $34 Million

August 28, 2002 Volume 4/ Number 20 Dear Colleague: The population controllers are at it again, cooking up phony statistics in a desperate effort to get more of our money. Their argument is nonsensical on the face of it: “We save lives by preventing children

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Project Afghanistan: A Situation Report

August 14, 2002 Volume 4/ Number 19 Dear Colleague: PRI associates have been working in Afghanistan for the past few months, and have discovered that U.N. population control efforts threaten Afghan women, children and families, run roughshod over Afghan laws, and even undercut American basic

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Foreign Aid in a Grown Up World

September 12, 2002 Volume 4/ Number 22 Dear Colleague: Global birthrates are falling fast, yet maternal and child mortality rates, largely caused by preventable diseases,

Read More »

For the Record…

“It is about the Population Research Institute, a small, aggressive, anti-family-planning group that was instrumental in getting President Bush to refuse to release a $34-million

Read More »

How Mexico Treats Its Poor Women

For many years, Population Research Institute has received persistent reports that the Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (IMSS) practices coercive family planning, using force and

Read More »