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

January 20, 2014 No Comments

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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Russia Chooses Life

December 23, 2013 No Comments

Last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law banning abortion advertising. Some members of the Duma (the Russian state assembly), are talking about going even further and banning the procedure itself.  The Russian Orthodox Church, whose numbers are swelling with converts and “reverts,” is

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Open response to: “Overpopulation: Should America have a one-child policy?

November 6, 2013 No Comments

Last Tuesday, the Washington Times published an article by Joseph Cotto entitled, “Overpopulation: Should America have a one-child policy?” Despite the provocative title, the article does not present a stimulating thought-experiment, but rather a series of half-truths and inconsistencies with dangerous implications. Because such half-truths

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Debunking the Myth of Overpopulation

October 1, 2013 No Comments

We are contacted all the time by people asking for how they can refute the arguments that the world is overpopulated, so we have decided to create a short primer called “How to Debunk the Myth of Overpopulation in Three Easy Steps.” Before we start,

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Europe as We Know It is Dying

January 29, 2013 No Comments

It’s happened before. Writing a century and a half before the birth of Christ, the Greek historian Polybius observed “nowadays all over Greece such a diminution in natality and in general manner such depopulation that the towns are deserted and the fields lie fallow. Although

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Will Russia Come Back to Life?

December 18, 2012 No Comments

What do you do when your country is dying, one coffin at a time? Well, if you are Russian President Vladimir Putin, you call upon Russian couples to be fruitful and multiply, and have at least three children. It is hard to exaggerate the demographic

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Demographics as the Grim Reaper

August 28, 2012 No Comments

More and more countries are hearing the death knell of low birth rates. We live in an age unique in human history. Per capita incomes have never been higher, lifespans have never been longer, and people are better fed and educated than ever before. At

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America Needs a Baby Boom

July 30, 2012 No Comments

Social security is about to go belly up, financially speaking. And at the head of this crisis is a demographic disproportion: there are simply too few young people coming into the workforce to support the increasing numbers of elderly baby boomers who are retiring. In

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

January 20, 2014 No Comments

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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Russia Chooses Life

December 23, 2013 No Comments

Last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law banning abortion advertising. Some members of the Duma (the Russian state assembly), are talking about going

Read More »

Europe as We Know It is Dying

January 29, 2013 No Comments

It’s happened before. Writing a century and a half before the birth of Christ, the Greek historian Polybius observed “nowadays all over Greece such a

Read More »

America Needs a Baby Boom

July 30, 2012 No Comments

Social security is about to go belly up, financially speaking. And at the head of this crisis is a demographic disproportion: there are simply too

Read More »
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