In This Issue:
- PRI in the Media
- Communist Roadkill
- China Restricts Abortion
- Demography is Destiny
- Scarcity of Babies
- Extinction in Europe
- Communist China
- Americans Return Home
- UN Misdeeds
- Meddling “Experts”
- Pro-Life Around the World
- Another Clinic Closed
- Saving Lives Criminalized
- Pro-Life on the Home Front
- Florida Follows Texas
- On the Front Lines
- Good News
- Against All Odds
PRI in the Media
Communist Roadkill: Xi Jinping has been waging a war on the wealthy in China. Over the years, hundreds of billionaires and CEOs have disappeared without a trace. Those lucky enough to reemerge have become robotic mouth-pieces for the CCP. Read Here
China Restricts Abortion: PRI President Steven Mosher was quoted regarding China’s recent restrictions on abortions. The communist country has restricted abortions to only the “medically-necessary” ones, but Mr. Mosher warned, “it is not done out of compassion for the unborn.” Read Here
Demography is Destiny
Scarcity of Babies: As per usual, Japan released its annual demographic data on Respect for the Aged Day. The data revealed that the birthrate will continue to descend as it has for the past five years. This has triggered campaigns for president of the Liberal Democratic Party built around promoting children and childbirth. Read Here
“The only solution for rapidly aging Japan is to strongly incentivize marriage and childbearing,” says Mr. Mosher, “since both are rapidly declining in Japan. The current birth rates are a recipe for demographic suicide. But the more Japan ages, the more it is necessary for women to work full-time to maintain the work force, and the lower the birth rate will fall.”
Extinction in Europe: A band of Eastern European leaders signed a joint declaration at the recent Budapest Demographic Summit. These leaders, from countries including Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Serbia and Slovenia, called for the EU not to rely upon immigration as a solution for the growing demographic crisis. Read Here
Communist China
Americans Return Home: Two U.S. citizens have finally been allowed to come home after three years detained in China. The two sisters faced no allegations of wrongdoing, but were still subject to a vague “exit ban,” related to their father’s former position as a CCP bank official. Read Here
UN Misdeeds
Meddling “Experts”: A group of UN human rights experts have inserted themselves into the potential overturn of Roe v. Wade, claiming that the Supreme Court would be violating international human rights law. This unprecedented brief made history as the, “first ever intrusion of this kind in U.S. legal debates by a UN mechanism.” Read Here
“International abortion activists, who have been appointed as “UN human rights experts,” have no business interfering in the U.S. democratic process,” says Mr. Mosher. “We have a Supreme Court, whose members are nominated by our President and confirmed by the Senate, that will make decisions on the constitutionality of Roe v. Wade. Hopefully this wrongheaded decision will be thrown out—at long last.”
Pro-Life Around the World
Another Clinic Closed: A fifth Marie Stopes Australia clinic has been forced to close due to lack of finances. For the past decade, these clinics have prioritized profits and convenience, endangering hundreds of women. Read Here
Saving Lives Criminalized: The European Parliament has voted in favor of criminalizing “gender-based violence” with denial of abortion care as a qualifying behavior. The leaders of the European countries involved have split over this issue and the inclusion of LGBTQ+ ideology within the report as well. Read Here
“It is nothing short of bizarre to condemn pro-life laws as ‘gender-based violence,’ ” says Mr. Mosher. “Young women who are coerced into abortions by boyfriends or family are the true victims of ‘gender-based violence,’ as are their unborn baby girls. Sex selection abortion is the worst form of sex discrimination. It is discrimination that kills.”
Pro-Life on the Home Front
Florida Follows Texas: Republican State Representative Webster Barnaby has filed a Florida Heartbeat Bill, modeled after Texas’s new legislature. The bill would protect babies as early as six to eight weeks after conception. Governor Desantis has supported the idea of stronger regulation on abortion, but it is not yet confirmed whether he supports this bill. Read Here
On the Front Lines: Texas pregnancy centers have had to adapt to new changes and increased traffic since the signing of the Heartbeat law, which launched workers into uncharted territory. Now that babies with detectable heartbeats are safe in Texas, clinics are working round the clock to aid the mothers as well. Read Here
Good News
Against All Odds: Baby girl born prematurely, when her mother suffered an aneurysm of her splenetic vein, has grown into a successful young adult. Ashleigh Mulvaney was born oxygen deprived, leaving doctor’s unsure of her future health development. Today she has passed her GCSEs at age 16, on the path to become a teaching assistant. Read Here
Quote of the Week
Pope Francis calls abortion murder:
Pope Francis addressed the members of the Pontifical Academy for Life during the Public Health in Global Perspective Assembly (video here) and spoke about the throw away culture which leads to abortion and euthanasia. He said that old people are seen as a waste material, but reserved his strongest remarks for abortion:
“There is the discarding of children that we do not want to welcome with the law of abortion that sends them to the dispatcher and kills them directly. And today this has become a ‘normal’ method, a practice that is very ugly. It is really murder.”
~ Pope Francis
