“The rebuttal of Zhao’s assertion was no surprise to Steve Mosher, an expert on China’s coercive population control policy.
“‘These officials are very good at speaking out of both sides of their mouths,’ Mosher told Baptist Press. ‘[Zhao] tried to put the best face possible on the policy. When the foreign press read too much into it, they backed off’…
“Since 1986, the program generally has limited couples in urban areas to one child and those in rural areas to two, if the first is a girl, Mosher told BP. The government revised the policy in 2002 to permit a husband and wife who are both only children to have two offspring, he said.
“An increase in the government’s limit to two children would not solve the problem, said Mosher, president of the Population Research institute. Mosher documented the abuses against women under the one-child policy while living as a social scientist in rural China in 1979–1980. “It ‘would not end the abuses,’ he said. ‘The problem with China’s policy is not that it is a one-child policy or a two-child policy… The problem is that the government is dictating to couples how many children they will have. That choice should be between a husband and a wife and God, not a husband and a wife and government bureaucrats.’
“China is seeking to ‘minimize the human rights abuses, of its government, which remains a dictatorship, Mosher said. The communist leaders will do what they want, ‘regardless of what the people think,’ he said, ‘If the people got to vote on this policy, it would have been abandoned 25 years ago.’”
Compiled by Tom Strode, “Chinese leader denies that one-child policy is changing,” Baptist Press, 6 March 2008, http://www.sbcbaptistpress.org/BPnews.asp?ID=27559
“Bush, visiting Washington this week, is pressing for a new five-year commitment of $30 billion. Concerned Women for America, along with other conservative religious groups, such as the Family Research Council and the Population Research Institute, are encouraging Bush to veto the bill in its current form.
“‘It would be better if President Bush had never proposed PEPFAR, than to have $50 billion hijacked by abortion promoting, chastity-mocking, anti-people groups,’ said Steven Mosher, president of the Population Research Institute
Matthew Streib, Conservative Christians angry at AIDS funding changes, Medill Report Washington, 21 February 2008, http://news.medill.northwestern.edu/washington/news.aspx?id=78995;
Matthew Streib, “Anti-Abortion Groups Urge Bush to Veto New AIDS Plan,” The Ledger.com (Lakeland, FL), 23 February, 2008, http://www.theledger.com/article/20080223/NEWS/802230378/1023
“Population Research Institute has joined other pro-life groups in condemning amendments to the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).
“PEPFAR is up for reauthorization on Thursday, February 14, 2008, in the House Foreign Affairs Committee. According to PRI’s president Steven Mosher, the preliminary drafts have been compromised by amendments that put the money directly in the hands of known population controllers.
“‘It would be better if President Bush had never proposed PEPFAR, than to have 50 billion dollars hijacked by abortion-promoting, chastity-mocking, anti-people groups like IPPF, UNFPA, and the Chinese government,’ said Mosher. ‘If the amendments promoted by the Democrat majority are passed, a veto will be the President’s only option.’. ..
“PRI urges pro-lifers everywhere to contact the members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and encourage them to vote against this bill. Information about this committee can be found at http://www.foreignaffairshouse.gov.”
“PRI Condemns PEPFAR Amendments,” SunHerald.com (Mississippi), 6 February 2008, http://www.sunherald.com/447/story/352939.html
“…In recent weeks, Queirolo and Acosta have become the main voices in the Acuerda Pais party to speak out in defense of human life and the protection of marriage as a union between one man and one woman in the text of the new constitution. Since then, they have become the target of attacks from fellow patty members, including Representative Betty Amores, who publicly called on the two to have the ‘decency’ to resign for not sharing the official party position.
“Queirolo responded that she was elected ‘by the people’s mandate and that she would not abandon her personal convictions. I am keeping to my position regarding respect for life from conception to death,’ she said.
“Carlos Polo, director of the Latin American office of the Population Research Institute, called the actions ‘a grave attack on freedom of thought. A precedent like this only invalidates the very project of the new constitution. [President] Correa should realize that going down this road will mean losing the referendum on the final text of the new Constitution. If Correa is influenced by pro-abortion politicians, the “No” vote on the referendum will be a majority.’”
“Pro-life representatives in Ecuador harassed for abandoning official party Line,” Catholic News Agency, 2 April 2008, http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=12220
Sex-Selective Abortion Comes to America, The U.S.-born children of Chinese, Korean, and Asian Indian parents tended to be male, by Steven W. Mosher was reprinted by LifeSiteNews.com, 15 April 2007, http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/apr/08041510.html
Stopping Genocide: Planned Parenthood’s Targeting of Alaska Natives by Steven Mosher and Colin Mason was reprinted on Catholiconline, 4 March 2008, http://www.catholic.org/international/international_story.php?id=27060
