The Population Research Institute works not only to end existing abuses against human dignity, but also to prevent such abuses from recurring. PRI works with policy makers and researchers to advance an enduring respect for every human life. The questions we ask today influence the
Too many programs impose coercive sterilizations and abortions upon underprivileged populations, violating the freedom of women and men around the globe to establish their families as they choose. The Population Research Institute documents and exposes abusive population control programs around the world. We conduct investigations
Contrary to recent reports, China’s population control policy still systematically enforces a policy of coerced abortion, sterilization, and child abandonment. The propaganda, coercion, and violence used by the Chinese Family Planning police continues to violate the rights of Chinese women, men, and their unborn children.
Less than two months after 13 women died in the neighboring state of Chhattisgarh, 43 women were sterilized in unsanitary and inhumane conditions in Chatra, a northern district in the Indian state of Jharkhand. Knowing the facility had no electricity, the sterilization camp coordinator rented a
The concern that the neonatal tetanus vaccines in Kenya sponsored by the World Health Organization are laced with sterilizing agents first arose months ago, and the uncertainty continues as the newest round of testing produced another inconclusive standoff between the Catholic Health Commission of
We released a report outlining some of the horrors of India’s sterilization camps. We called the world’s attention to the US Agency for International Development’s complicity in coercive sterilization camps in India. Among the evidence was a report published by the OECD describing a multi-million
Women’s wombs are inflated with bicycle pumps. Some are paid as little as 600 rupees – about $10 – to be sterilized. Some see – and feel – doctors pull shreds of their organs from their abdomens during procedures. Doctors reuse gloves and needles for
Poll taxes, property requirements, and race and gender-based voting prohibitions codified thinly disguised discrimination in darker periods in United States history. Today, in the world’s largest democracy, local laws restrict political participation to people who have two or fewer children. Seven Indian states currently prohibit
The secular media, which is no friend of the Catholic Church, seems to specialize in misrepresenting the views of its prelates. Pope Francis has been particularly ill served in this regard and, at the same time, seems to shrug it off. So it is hard
As women across Kenya reject their “help,” population controllers have sunk to new lows: Mass sterilizations of unsuspecting women, through a common immunization. DONATE Dear If you haven’t yet had the opportunity to make a year-end gift to the Population Research Institute (PRI), your support truly can’t
The Population Research Institute works not only to end existing abuses against human dignity, but also to prevent such abuses from recurring. PRI works with
Too many programs impose coercive sterilizations and abortions upon underprivileged populations, violating the freedom of women and men around the globe to establish their families
Contrary to recent reports, China’s population control policy still systematically enforces a policy of coerced abortion, sterilization, and child abandonment. The propaganda, coercion, and violence
Less than two months after 13 women died in the neighboring state of Chhattisgarh, 43 women were sterilized in unsanitary and inhumane conditions in Chatra,
The concern that the neonatal tetanus vaccines in Kenya sponsored by the World Health Organization are laced with sterilizing agents first arose months ago,
We released a report outlining some of the horrors of India’s sterilization camps. We called the world’s attention to the US Agency for International Development’s
Women’s wombs are inflated with bicycle pumps. Some are paid as little as 600 rupees – about $10 – to be sterilized. Some see –
Poll taxes, property requirements, and race and gender-based voting prohibitions codified thinly disguised discrimination in darker periods in United States history. Today, in the world’s
The secular media, which is no friend of the Catholic Church, seems to specialize in misrepresenting the views of its prelates. Pope Francis has been
As women across Kenya reject their “help,” population controllers have sunk to new lows: Mass sterilizations of unsuspecting women, through a common immunization. DONATE Dear If you