In This Issue:
- Demography is Destiny
- Ranking Decline
- Communist China
- Thousands in Detention
- UN Misdeeds
- Criminalizing Criticism
- Science Gone Mad
- Genetic Scores for Embryos
- Baby’s Best Interest
- Pro-Life Around the World
- Spain Against Sidewalk Witness
- Telemed Terror
- Silent Majority Speaks Up
- Pro-Life on the Home Front
- Manchin’s Reconciliation Bill
- Biden Makes History
- Organ Harvest Investigation
- Good News
- Mother and Son Reunited
Demography is Destiny
Ranking Decline: Business Insider has ranked the top twenty countries with the largest expected population percentage decline in the next three decades. These projections range from Bulgaria, the steepest predicted decrease at 20%, to Italy, with its population predicted to decrease 10%. Read Here
Communist China
Thousands in Detention: In their practice of “Residential Surveillance at a Designated Location”, the CCP has locked up and tortured thousands of individuals for months, and in some cases years, at a time. Human Rights Group, Safeguard Defenders, have called upon the international community to end this unjust practice. Read Here
“The Chinese Communist Party currently holds millions of political prisoners in a massive gulag archipelago stretching across the length and breadth of China,” says PRI President Steven Mosher. “Aside from formal prisons and prison labor camps, there are ‘re-education through labor’ camps and local ‘black jails’ to hold people who have been secretly arrested and tortured to obtain confessions. The mere fact of being arrested means that you are ‘guilty.’ The Communist police can never be wrong, so they always force those arrested to confess.”
UN Misdeeds
Criminalizing Criticism: The Secretary General has submitted a report to the UN General Assembly calling for the criminalization of criticizing gender ideology. While this report currently has no legal power, it is still a threat for it “will certainly be used by other UN actors to advance these ideas.” Read Here
Science Gone Mad
Genetic Scores for Embryos: The first ever baby brought to term after passing PGT-P testing as an embryo has turned one year old. This preimplantation genetic testing rated her against her sibling embryos, awarding her with the highest score and thus the privilege of implantation and full life. Read Here
Baby’s Best Interest: The practice of surrogacy is under the microscope once again as New Zealand looks to amend their laws regarding the practice. Although New Zealand’s review claimed concern for the best interest of children being conceived, it ignored fundamentally negative aspects that are inevitable with the surrogacy process. Read Here
Pro-Life Around the World
Spain Against Sidewalk Witness: The practice of sidewalk witness outside of abortion in Spain is on its way to being criminalized as “harassment.” The bill that would allow this, advanced in mid-September. It calls for jail time or community service for participation in demonstrations near abortion facilities. Read Here
“Spain’s socialists/communists want to punish people for ‘approaching women with photographs, model fetuses, and proclamations against abortion,’” says PRI President Steven Mosher. “But what pro-lifers attempt to do through their pro-life witness is ensure that the young women going into the abortion mills enjoy informed consent, that is, that they understand that what will happen inside the clinic is that the life of their unborn child will be taken from them. The abortion industry profits from their ignorance and innocence.”
Telemed Terror: The government of Guam has appealed a judge’s earlier decision to allow the practice of telemedicine abortions on the island. This would waive the requirement for an in-person consultation before the use of an abortion pill. Read Here
Silent Majority Speaks Up: Thousands of pro-lifers came together in the streets of Mexico to protest the decriminalization of abortion. These “short notice” protests occurred nationwide with the organizers estimating up to one million participants. Read Here
Pro-Life on the Home Front
Manchin’s Reconciliation Bill: West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin called out House Democrats new reconciliation bill for allowing federal funding for abortion. He insisted that the Hyde Amendment must be included, otherwise the bill will be “dead on arrival.” Read Here
Biden Makes History: Joe Biden has become the first US President to endorse abortion as an international human right. His administration supported the Women’s Rights Protection Act of 2021 which, influenced by UN bureaucrats, elevates abortion in this way. Read Here
“If you wanted more evidence that ‘Catholic’ Joe Biden is the most radically pro-abortion president we have ever had, here it is. He has now signed onto the notion that abortion is an International human right,” says PRI President Mosher. “In other words, his administration will now promote, perform, and lobby for the legalization of abortion–using your tax dollars–on the grounds that it is a fundamental ‘human right.’ It is not, of course, this notion is just a creation of the murderous left.”
Organ Harvest Investigation: Congress has called for a full investigation into the University of Pittsburgh’s experimentation with aborted fetal body parts. Evidence from multiple sources suggested that Pitt has experience with collecting aborted body parts, as well as “extracting organs from live fetuses.” Read Here.
Good News
Mother and Son Reunited: At age eighteen, Melanie Vossler faced an unplanned pregnancy and chose life. Today, thirty-three years later, she was reunited with this child whom she had given up for adoption. Read Here.
Quote of the Week
“You know well enough that Our Lord does not look so much at the greatness of our actions, nor even at their difficulty, but at the love with which we do them.”
~ St. Therese of Lisieux, source
