Thank you very much for your email with attachments from PRI. We have read and printed the documents. We agree about the infamous roles, racketeering and conspiracies of the global anti-life/ family agencies like UNPFA, etc. They do the same tricky things from time to time in the Third World. We contacted you before and will do so again to give our comments to tenaciously fight against the culture of death.
William Jolliffe, London
United Kingdom
Dear Steve,
It is with a deep sense of appreciation that I write this letter to you for the wonderful work you are doing. Your newsletter has been an integral source of resources for our quarterly newsletter, HLPL News. Thanks for the hard work.
I have read with interest your July-August 2004 issue of the PRI Review and I wish to request a copy of the ABC Link video by Brita Stream, It will be a great boost for our pro-life activities in Nigeria, especially as indications are emerging regarding “Reproductive Rights” legislation in the country. Our legislators need up-to-date information to guide them and our women, too, need to be taught about this evil.
I shall also appreciate whatever other pro-life resource materials you’ll send to us.
Emmanuel O. Adekoya
Human Life Protection Association
Nigeria
Dear Mr. Mosher,
I would like to thank you for spending so much time conversing with my father, brother and myself at the pro-life banquet. Thank you also for letting us ask questions and taking the time to answer them fully and completely.
You gave a great speech and it was very interesting. It made me understand the importance of stopping the depopulation movement.
William A. Weiss, New York
Dear Mr. Mosher,
First let me thank you for the significant and necessary work you accomplish towards g world peace and life.
I recently saw you at Our Lady of Peace Church in Santa Clara, but I wasn’t able to stay for your talk, although I’d very much have liked to. At that time I mentioned a suggestion, that is, can we, as a society, bring back the phrase “with child” as opposed to “pregnant?”
You are in a tremendous position to start this trend rolling. I am not, but greatly admire and support your ability to have this effect.
Subliminal? Maybe, but then wasn’t the phrasing “free choice” a slogan that has (unfortunately, in this case) caught on and had a big effect in the wrong way? I hope you will see this as an opportunity.
Regina Dittermann, California
Dear Mr. Mosher,
Thank you for sending me a copy of your column, “It’s the Birthrate, Stupid.” I appreciate your taking the time to send it to me.
There is no question that our country and world are being deprived of innumerable benefits that would have been realized had we not aborted millions of children. You make some interesting points about the cost of abortion and its impact on the solvency of Social Security. You are right; absent all moral arguments, abortion is bad economics.
Thanks again for your letter and column.
Mike Huckabee
Governor
State of Arkansas
Steve,
Thank you for all the information you send us about PRI. We enjoy reading it and then passing it on to pro-life people. They do the same.
We regret we cannot give you donations. We are obliged to live on a fixed income. However, we do say a rosary each day (we seldom miss) for you and your great pro-life work,
Mr. and Mrs. John O’Brien, Arizona
Dear Steve,
Thank you very much for the D’Agostino piece on the Philippines.
As of now, the government has already involved the private sector and civil society, notably the confederation of employers and various industry chambers, in propagating family planning and reproductive health policies. This will intensify once the bill in question becomes law. Funding, we suspect, will be coming mainly from the usual external sources.
It may be useful to check with USAID about what kind of funding they continue to provide the Philippines for this purpose. There were some allocations last year and this year, for “family planning.” Our sources in Washington told us USAID gave it because our government “asked for it.”
What is the latest U.S. policy update on this? I seem to have gotten the impression that development aid will go to education, genuine health programs (not reproductive health simply) and poverty-reduction. Is this on or not?
Our population growth rate continues to go down even as the contraceptive prevalence rate goes down. The government posted a 1.9% growth rate in 2004 from 2.36% ten years ago. It is expected to go down to 1.8% by 2006. The UNDP and CIA website report an even lower growth rate of 1.6%. What then is the objective behind the grants for population control?
Thank you and more power to PRI!
Ma. Fenny C. Tatad, Manila
Philippines
