Asia

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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PRI’s video breaks 1,000,000 views: Influences Taiwan

Population Research Institute’s video reached 1,000,000 views over the weekend. The video, which illustrates the mechanism of the morning after pill, has been       viewed over 450,000 times in Taiwan. Taiwan is calculated to perform about 400,000 abortions per year, an enormous number for a country which witnesses less than 200,000 births a year. PRI believes the popularity of the pro-life

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Why the baby kidnapper shouldn’t die

An obstetrician in the Shaanxi province of China was sentenced to death for child trafficking this week. The 55 year old woman repeatedly told her patients that their new born infant was either deformed or sick. She persuaded the new parents to give up their children

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Steven Mosher on EWTN tonight discussing China

Have you wondered why the Chinese instituted their draconian birth control policy? What were the ideological roots behind it? And what, exactly, are the costs of their policy? Mr. Steven Mosher, the president of Population Research Institute, will be on EWTN News Nightly With Colleen

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Genocide in Sri Lanka Continues

KILINOCHCHI, SRI LANKA: Tamil women continue to die at the hands of the Sri Lankan government, which is intent upon eradicating the minority population. A woman named Manjula Satheeskumar and her father are the most recent casualties. On August 31st, 2013, more than 50 women

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PRI’s “Plan B” Video Going Viral; Babies Benefit

PRI’s fun and informative video, “Plan B: Is It Contraception or Not?” is making its way around the world. Since its release two months ago, the cartoon video is closing in on 500,000 views. The video, which leaves no doubt that the so-called “morning after

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Controlling Women’s Desires in Kenya

The Kenyan government recently outlined a new brand of coercive population control. Unlike China’s policy which uses coercion to control the number of births, Kenya is trying to control population earlier in the reproductive process by changing women’s desires to have children. In the early

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PRI’s video breaks 1,000,000 views: Influences Taiwan

Population Research Institute’s video reached 1,000,000 views over the weekend. The video, which illustrates the mechanism of the morning after pill, has been       viewed over 450,000 times in Taiwan. Taiwan is calculated to perform about 400,000 abortions per year, an

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