In This Issue:
- Demography is Destiny
- Advocacy for Families
- Communist China
- Personal Data “Protection”
- Millennials Against Marriage
- Science Gone Mad
- Surrogacy for Sale
- Pro-Life Around the World
- Murder in Belgium
- The Invincible Family
- New Age Eugenics
- Pro-Life on the Home Front
- Victory in Texas
- Abortion Law Under Attack
- Good News
- Coming Full Circle
- Message on the Mountain
Demography is Destiny
Advocacy for Families: In Kerala, the Catholic heartland of India, bishops have been calling for stronger pro-family support. The diocese started a campaign that offers incentives for Christian couples to have more children, in response to the falling birth rate and decreasing percentage of Christians in the total population. Read Here
“I have made trips to Southern India to spread the gospel of Life,” says PRI President Steven Mosher. “Catholics value education, and are disproportionately represented in the professions. But this also means that they marry later and have smaller families. The bishops pro-life initiatives should help to encourage more births. We could learn from them.”
Communist China
Personal Data “Protection”: The Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress in China has passed one of the strictest data-privacy laws in the world. The law reins in tech companies’ power over personal data. But it does nothing to impede government control of data. Read Here
Millennials Against Marriage: The pressure to bear children has grown in China, but young people have become less and less likely to marry. Marriage registrations have fallen for the seventh year in a row, while the percentage of one-person households has increased. Read Here
“It turns out that only children are often content to go through life as singletons,” says PRI President Steven Mosher. “The government may talk about the high cost of housing, or raising and educating children, but at one level this is simply a failure of love. It is love for others and love for children that brings new life into the world. And love is in short supply in China.”
Science Gone Mad
Surrogacy for Sale: International Family News examined the negative consequences of the surrogacy industry. With “patchwork” laws around the world, and within the United States, the practice has been highly unregulated. As evident by IFN’s breakdown, it is time to ban commercial surrogacy. Read Here
Pro-Life Around the World
Murder in Belgium: Belgian law has continued to ignore the legal status of unborn babies as human beings. In this case, a man attacked his 9-month pregnant partner. She survived, but he faces no charges for the death of her baby. Read Here
The Invincible Family: Author Kimberly Ells addressed the global campaign to destroy the nuclear family and why it will fail in her new book. The Invincible Family: Why the Global Campaign to Crush Motherhood and Fatherhood Can’t Win touts the strength of motherhood as a major component that upholds society. Read Here
New Age Eugenics: Archbishop Paglia was interviewed on the changing public view of life. He stated that with the new concept of life focused on youth and health comes “a new form of eugenics: Whoever is not born healthy must not be born.” Read Here
“It is good that the JPII Institute is talking about protecting the vulnerable at both ends of life,” says PRI President Mosher. “But it needs to make clear that the unborn are, in an age of rampant abortion, the most vulnerable.”
Pro-Life on the Home Front
Victory in Texas: A federal appeals court in Texas upheld the Pro-Life law that protects babies from dismemberment abortions in the second trimester. The court supported the fact that abortionists have alternative methods and that “the state has an interest in preventing the pain of unborn children.” This was a step in the right direction for the Pro-Life movement in Texas. Read Here
Abortion Law Under Attack: Planned Parenthood of Montana has filed a lawsuit attempting to block four new Pro-Life laws set to take affect this October. According to Fox News, these laws would “ban abortion after 20 weeks of gestation; restrict access to abortion pills; require abortion providers to ask patients if they would like to view an ultrasound; and prohibit insurance plans that cover abortion procedures from being offered on the federal exchange.” Read Here
Good News
Coming Full Circle: A formerly conjoined twin lived her dream of giving birth to her own child in the same hospital where she was surgically separated from her sister twenty-one years prior. This “full-circle” moment was a time of celebration for Charity Gutierrez-Vasquez and her newborn daughter, Alora. Read Here
Message on the Mountain: A group of Pro-Lifers survived a blizzard on Mount Kilimanjaro, battling “high winds, sub-zero temperatures, and visibility so bad, their guide was lost for two hours.” They persevered despite the danger to proclaim their message “Remember the Unborn” on the mountaintop. Read Here
Quote of the Week
“We are called to renew our nation, not primarily by enacting laws, but by announcing the joy and hope of the Gospel of Jesus to individuals in desperate need of its Good News. It is our task to reclaim our culture one mind, one heart, one soul at a time.”
~ Archbishop Joseph Naumann, source
