Front Royal, VA, 02/20/08 – Steven W. Mosher, President of the Population Research Institute (PRI), responded to a hit piece published by The Nation, America’s largest-circulation leftwing publication, which accuses PRI of fomenting "race panic" by reporting on plummeting birthrates in Europe. The lead article by Kathryn Joyce, who entitled her screed "Missing: the ‘Right’
Front Royal, VA, 02/06/08 – 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
Front Royal, VA, 01/28/08 – Population Research Institute has released the third video in its series on YouTube, this time focusing on the overwhelming youth presence at this year’s March for Life. "To the best of my knowledge, this kind of video has never been done before," says Colin Mason, Director for Media Production at
Front Royal, VA, 10/10/07 – The Guttmacher Institute’s latest report on world abortion rates is a self-serving fantasy, says Population Research Institute President Steven W. Mosher. The study, just released today, argues that 42 million abortions were performed in 2003, most in developing countries. Accurate numbers are impossible to glean from developing countries, however, where
Front Royal, VA, 09/14/07 – The population controllers at the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) will have to pinch pennies for another year. This week, for the sixth year in a row, President Bush has invoked the Kemp-Kasten Amendment and withheld $34 million in U.S. funding from the United Nations Population Fund. We at PRI
FRONT ROYAL, VA, 09/07/07 – Steven Mosher, President of the Population Research Institute, today congratulated the U.S. Senate for upholding the Kemp-Kasten Amendment. "We are delighted that the Kemp-Kasten Amendment was adopted into the Foreign Operations Appropriations bill," Mosher said. "PRI’s research has proven that the U.N. Population Fund is joined at the hip to
