In This Issue: South Korea recorded its largest rise in births in nearly two decades, with 254,500 babies born in 2025. This was a 6.8% increase from the previous year. The total fertility rate rose from 0.75 to 0.80, marking two consecutive years of growth after nearly a decade of steady decline.
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In This Issue: President Trump sparked backlash from pro-life leaders after urging House Republicans to be “flexible” on the Hyde Amendment, the 1976 provision barring most federal abortion funding, including through Medicaid. The remarks drew swift criticism from pro-life groups and lawmakers who warned that Hyde is a non-negotiable principle.
In This Issue: Northern Ireland recorded a tragic 2,899 abortions from April 2024 to March 2025—the highest ever—marking a 3.7% rise from last year and an 84% increase since 2021. Late-term abortions more than doubled to 154 (a 103% jump), and disability-selective abortions rose 19%. Abortions among girls under 18 have climbed 61% since 2021.
In This Issue: PRI’s Latin American office is proud to report that the Peruvian Congress has passed a new law on equal opportunity between men and women that respects the biological reality that there are only two sexes. This is a huge victory for Peru and for PRI, which provided the intellectual “muscle” behind this effort. The new law throws out the “gender ideology” concept that was forced on Peru by Obama’s USAID and which has been the guiding principle of Peruvian governments since 2014.
In This Issue: A Scottish Government-commissioned review—led by a former trustee of the UK’s largest abortion provider—is advocating for the scrapping of Scotland’s 24-week abortion limit. This would allow abortions on “social grounds,” including sex-selective abortions, up to birth. In 2024, 98% of Scotland’s 18,710 abortions were performed under a clause interpreted to allow abortion for social reasons.
In This Issue: New Zealand government data has revealed that babies are regularly surviving abortion attempts and then being left to die. Family First obtained official records showing that at least 80 abortions since 2020 resulted in live births, meaning babies between 20–30 weeks were born alive but denied medical care.
In This Issue: Italy’s fertility crisis has deepened, with births dropping to the lowest level since national unification in 1861. According to Italy’s statistics bureau ISTAT, only 370,000 babies were born last year—a 6.3% decline from 2024—and just 198,000 births were recorded between January and July 2025. The fertility rate has fallen to 1.13 children per woman.
In This Issue: Marriage, once the cornerstone of adulthood, has become a “capstone” reserved for the financially secure. Census data show the median age for first marriage has climbed to 30 for men and 29 for women—up from 28 and 26 just 15 years ago. Between 2008 and 2023, first-marriage rates among 22–45-year-olds dropped 9%, with the steepest declines among the less educated and lower-income.
In This Issue: Greece is shuttering 766 schools—over 5% of the nation’s total—after plunging fertility has left classrooms empty. Primary schools took the hardest hit, with closures rising from 247 in 2018–2019 to 324 this year, while kindergartens jumped from 312 to 358. In just seven years, the number of primary students has fallen by 111,000, a 19% drop.
In This Issue: South Korea recorded its largest rise in births in nearly two decades, with 254,500 babies born in 2025. This was a 6.8% increase from the previous year. The total fertility rate rose from 0.75 to 0.80, marking two consecutive years of growth after nearly a decade of steady decline.
Family Planning 2030 2 Dispatches from the Great Campaign 5 Abortion “Uber Alles” in Europe 7 Hungary Doubles Down on Pro-Family Policy 9 From the
In This Issue: President Trump sparked backlash from pro-life leaders after urging House Republicans to be “flexible” on the Hyde Amendment, the 1976 provision barring most federal abortion funding, including through Medicaid. The remarks drew swift criticism from pro-life groups and lawmakers who warned that Hyde is a non-negotiable principle.
In This Issue: Northern Ireland recorded a tragic 2,899 abortions from April 2024 to March 2025—the highest ever—marking a 3.7% rise from last year and an 84% increase since 2021. Late-term abortions more than doubled to 154 (a 103% jump), and disability-selective abortions rose 19%. Abortions among girls under 18 have climbed 61% since 2021.
In This Issue: PRI’s Latin American office is proud to report that the Peruvian Congress has passed a new law on equal opportunity between men and women that respects the biological reality that there are only two sexes. This is a huge victory for Peru and for PRI, which provided the intellectual “muscle” behind this effort. The new law throws out the “gender ideology” concept that was forced on Peru by Obama’s USAID and which has been the guiding principle of Peruvian governments since 2014.
In This Issue: A Scottish Government-commissioned review—led by a former trustee of the UK’s largest abortion provider—is advocating for the scrapping of Scotland’s 24-week abortion limit. This would allow abortions on “social grounds,” including sex-selective abortions, up to birth. In 2024, 98% of Scotland’s 18,710 abortions were performed under a clause interpreted to allow abortion for social reasons.
In This Issue: New Zealand government data has revealed that babies are regularly surviving abortion attempts and then being left to die. Family First obtained official records showing that at least 80 abortions since 2020 resulted in live births, meaning babies between 20–30 weeks were born alive but denied medical care.
In This Issue: Italy’s fertility crisis has deepened, with births dropping to the lowest level since national unification in 1861. According to Italy’s statistics bureau ISTAT, only 370,000 babies were born last year—a 6.3% decline from 2024—and just 198,000 births were recorded between January and July 2025. The fertility rate has fallen to 1.13 children per woman.
In This Issue: Marriage, once the cornerstone of adulthood, has become a “capstone” reserved for the financially secure. Census data show the median age for first marriage has climbed to 30 for men and 29 for women—up from 28 and 26 just 15 years ago. Between 2008 and 2023, first-marriage rates among 22–45-year-olds dropped 9%, with the steepest declines among the less educated and lower-income.
In This Issue: Greece is shuttering 766 schools—over 5% of the nation’s total—after plunging fertility has left classrooms empty. Primary schools took the hardest hit, with closures rising from 247 in 2018–2019 to 324 this year, while kindergartens jumped from 312 to 358. In just seven years, the number of primary students has fallen by 111,000, a 19% drop.