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Welcome Baby Seven Billion!

Population Research Institute celebrates the birth of the World’s Seven Billionth Person. Sometime late this year a baby will emerge from the womb of its mother, draw its first breath, and announce its arrival into the world with a tiny cry. Thus will Baby Seven

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Study Links Contraception and Abortion Rates in Spain

A 10-year study in Spain measuring the rates of both contraception use and abortions recently drew to a close. The results showed that as contraceptive rates rose by 60%, the abortion rate doubled. STUDY DESIGN: Since 1997, representative samples of Spanish women of childbearing potential

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New Study Links Abortion and Pre-Term Births

A study featured in the National Vital Statistics Reports, a publication of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, showed that, across all age groups, non-Hispanic black women experienced significantly more pre-term births than their white and Hispanic counterparts. In America, the abortion rate

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A Farce: The UN’s World Youth Conference

Sergio Burga, a young researcher who works out of our Latin American office, has just spent three tumultuous days at the UN's so-called World Youth Conference. Here is his first-hand report. Vol. 12/No. 24 PRI's Sergio Burga, providing on-the-scene, in-depth coverage from Mexico as the

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Are Children the Enemy of Productivity?

The barren Left argues that children are a nuisance and a distraction. The truth is that men and women with children are more, not less, productive than their childless counterparts. Vol. 12/No. 21 Cyril Connolly once said that “there is no more somber enemy of

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Teen Mom: Problem or Symptom?

Abortion advocates say condoms will cure teen pregnancy, but a leading gynecologist argues they ignore the root cause. Vol. 12/No. 10 “Every minute a woman dies from maternal causes,” proclaimed Dr. Yves Bergevin of the UNFPA, as he took the podium on the opening day

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Welcome Baby Seven Billion!

Population Research Institute celebrates the birth of the World’s Seven Billionth Person. Sometime late this year a baby will emerge from the womb of its

Read More »

Teen Mom: Problem or Symptom?

Abortion advocates say condoms will cure teen pregnancy, but a leading gynecologist argues they ignore the root cause. Vol. 12/No. 10 “Every minute a woman

Read More »