“An independent investigation in 200l provided evidence the UNFPA was helping in China’s program. A team from the Population Research Institute, an American pro-life organization, reported witnesses told it in September the family planning in a UNFPA-run program was not voluntary. Coercion, in the form of not only sterilization and abortion, but imprisonment and property destruction, existed in the UNFPA program, according to the report.”
Tom Strode, “Funds linked to China abortion policy eliminated in 216–21 l U.S. House vote,” Baptist Press, 16 July 2003
If “Bush made the decision to withhold the funding from the U.N. organization based on allegations by the right-wing Population Research Institute that UNFPA programs in China support coercive family planning policies.”
“China: Religious Leaders See No Link Between Forced Abortions and UNFPA,” Feminist Daily News Wire, 17 September 2003
“The Population Research Institute, in its current Weekly Briefing, exposes the shocking hijacking by the U.S. foreign affairs establishment of President Bush’s new program to combat AIDS in suffering Third World countries and the gutting of the original intentions and effectiveness of the new $15 billion U.S. program.”
“US AIDS Program Shocker — $15 Billion Grabbed by Population Controllers and Sex-ed and Condom Pushers,” LifeSiteNews.com. 24 September 2003
“The Population Research Institute (PRI), which says it is committed to ‘stepping human rights abuses committed in the name of family planning,’ claims to have detailed instances in which pamphlets were distributed to teenagers and adolescents in Honduras, featuring advertisements for colored and flavored condoms .… ‘We had higher hopes and expectations of USAID in the Bush administration, but unfortunately what we’re being told by people on the ground in every continent is that nothing has changed,’ Scott Weinberg, PRI director of government affairs told CNSNews.com.
‘There’s been no improvement in USAID’s support of harmful, hurtful or just plain ridiculous programs in Africa and in Central and South America, and in Asia,’ he added.
Weinberg pointed out that as a result of PRI’s efforts, and those of other concerned groups, the Bush administration has been made aware of these activities. The administration has responded that it is looking into the situation, Weinberg said. ‘They were really grateful that we brought it to their attention,’ Weinberg said.
Steve Brown, “Taxpayers Funding Pro-Homosexual, Abortion Pamphlets, Group Alleges,” CNSNews.com, 12 August 2003
“The Population Research Institute (PRI) says that $15 billion of American government funds which was allocated for combating AIDS in developing countries has been redirected to an agency which supports population control and family planning. A Senate bill significantly amended the president’s policy on AIDS and switched money to the USAID Child Survival Account. The PRI suggests that family planning groups’ work could actually cause the disease to spread and has called for the fund to go back to an AIDS coordinator.
Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, 25 September 2003
“‘The problem isn’t too many people. It’s lack of solid socioeconomic development policies,’ said Scott Weinberg, director of governmental affairs at the Population Research Institute, which opposes population control as a way to curb growth.”
“Increases in Africa, Asia to spark world population growth,” Associated Press, 22 July 2003. Picked up in USA Today, KansasCity.com, and the Sacramento Bee
“Shortly after Baby Doe’s death, the Population Research Institute made public the testimony of a former Chinese official now residing in the U.S., describing common practices used in carrying out Communist China’s population control policy. According to this official, ‘unauthorized’ children born in provincial hospitals are often delivered alive and then killed.”
“Miami — Or Beijing?” The New American, 30 June 2003
If “The pro-life Population Research Institute has conducted its own independent research highlighting China’s practices. Spokesman Scott Weinberg said the UNFPA shouldn’t be rewarded when it is clearly engaged in illegal operations overseas.”
Robert Bluey, “Congress Prepares for Battle Over UN Population Fund Money,” CNSNews.com, 14 July 2003
