In This Issue:
- PRI in the Media
- Russia Rewind
- Demography is Destiny
- Population to Double
- Forever Childless
- Communist China
- Challenges to the Birth Rate
- The Rift Deepens
- Clergy in China
- UN Misdeeds
- Priorities Misplaced
- Science Gone Mad
- IVF Mistake Uncovered
- Pro-Life Around the World
- A Call to Unite
- Products, not People
- Surprise Winner
- Pro-Life on the Home Front
- Hyde Still Missing
- End of Religious Exemption
- Easing Access to Death
- Protecting Pennsylvania
- Good News
- Celebrating Adoption
PRI in the Media
Russia Rewind: Earlier this year, the National Civic Council pulled an excerpt from PRI’s own Allen Baldanza. Within this excerpt, Baldanza detailed Russia’s measures to encourage a culture of Life. Read Here
Demography is Destiny
Population to Double: While many countries are faced with population decline, Israel’s population has the potential to double in the next 30 years. Professor Sam Lehman-Wilzig praises this future for the vibrancy it could bring to the country’s economy and society. Read Here
Forever Childless: According to the PEW research center, almost half of the childless adults in the United States have declared that they are unlikely to ever have children. The reasons for this decision range from climate change concerns to economic uncertainty. Read Here
Communist China
Challenges to the Birth Rate: The CCP has moved towards promoting rather than preventing births, but marriage and divorce rates stand in the way. Chinese youths are less likely to marry and more likely to divorce, both negatively affecting the already-low fertility rate. Read Here
“If the Chinese young people refuse to marry and have children,” says PRI President Steven Mosher, “the Chinese Communist Party will simply resurrect the feudal practice of arranged marriages in one form or another, and then mandate that these liaisons produce at least two children. It will be marriage and childbearing under a quota system. All for the good of Greater China, of course.”
The Rift Deepens: The Xi-Biden summit was held and yielded no significant results, despite the meeting lasting over three hours. Biden did reinforce his position as the weaker of the two leaders, and made no move during the meeting to remedy this. Read Here
“Xi Jinping dominated our doddering old President during the video summit,” says PRI President Steven Mosher. “It was painful to watch. Everyone agrees, apparently even the senior staff in the White House. They have let it be known that there will be no more such summits scheduled.”
Clergy in China: Throughout 2021, CCP measures against religious organizations have gotten worse, penalizing clergy and further restricting religious freedom. The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom has recognized this occurrence and compiled a factsheet on these measures. Read Here
“The situation for Christians in China has gone from bad to worse with the Communist Party’s new restrictions on clergy,” says PRI President Steven Mosher. “The new rules require priests and pastors ‘to support the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) rule, the Chinese socialist political system, and the CCP’s ‘Sinicization of religion’ policy.’ Before they are allowed to talk about their Christian faith, in other words, they must swear allegiance to the officially atheistic Chinese Communist Party. This is a fatal contradiction. One cannot serve both God and mammon.”
UN Misdeeds
Priorities Misplaced: Abortion has come into a document on clean water! Arguably African women need clean water more than abortion, but you would not know this from the nations of Western Europe. Stefano Gennarini, JD was deeply involved, and he reports. Read Here
“We at PRI have carried out surveys of the health needs of African women,” says PRI President Steven Mosher. “Clean drinking water is near the top of the list, while access to abortion is never mentioned. The push for abortion is a reflection of the radical Western feminist fantasy that every woman, everywhere, aspires to be just like them—promiscuous and barren. Their efforts are applauded by racist population controllers who want to reduce human numbers.”
Dr. Christopher Manion, who was working on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee at the time, recalls that “Forty years ago, Latin American bishops complained to me about AID’s requirement that the ‘family planning’ component was a required segment of every aid project. No famplan, no clean water.”
Science Gone Mad
IVF Mistake Uncovered: An IVF mix-up revealed by 23andme DNA test results has exposed the lack of regulation in the reproductive industry. The couple that experienced this mistake found out their second son, 12 years of age, was conceived with another man’s sperm. Read Here
Pro-Life Around the World
A Call to Unite: Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano has called upon the Catholics and Christians of the world to create an anti-globalist alliance. He has emphasized the need to fight the cancellation of faith in Christ, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Read Here
“As I write in my forthcoming book, The Politically Incorrect Guide® to Pandemics, we face two threats, one from without and one from within,” says PRI President Steven Mosher. “The external threat is obvious. It comes from Communist China, which unleashed the China Virus on the world and hungers for global domination. The other comes from within, and comes from our corporate ruling elite–Washington, Wall Street, and Hi-Tech–who have used the pandemic for their political and economic gain. The threat from China is a disease of the skin, the threat from our oligarchs is a disease of the heart–and heart disease can kill you.”
Products, not People: In a disturbing report out of Kiev, a booming baby-selling business was underway during 2020. Slowed by the lockdowns, over 60 children were kept in hotels and sold for discount rates to incentivize contract signing. Read Here
Surprise Winner: A Catholic, Pro-Life candidate has scored a victory in the first round of Chile’s presidential elections. This winner, Jose Antonio Kast, will now have to face off the leader of the leftist coalition on December 19th. Read Here
Pro-Life on the Home Front
Hyde Still Missing: A ban on taxpayer funding for abortions has been in place for decades, and enjoys broad public support. But Democrats have excluded both the pro-life Hyde amendment the pro-life Helms amendment from the reconciliation bill. Without these amendments, the Biden Administration would be free to use taxpayer dollars to pay for abortions at home and abroad. Read Here
“When I first joined the pro-life movement back in the Eighties,” says PRI President Steven Mosher, “members of both parties supported these common-sense, pro-life protections. Most taxpayers find the idea of using their money to pay for the killing of unborn babies in abortions through Medicaid and other programs to be repugnant. The Democrat party is now in the pocket of the abortion industry however, and there are very, very few pro-life Democrats left.”
End of Religious Exemption: The Biden Administration’s Health and Human services department has decided to build a future without religious-freedom exemptions. If successful, this could force “abortion, end-of-life and sexual-health agenda” on Catholic providers. Read Here
Easing Access to Death: Students for Life has sent a letter to prominent members of the U.S. Senate, begging them to reconsider easing FDA regulations on abortifacients. The Biden Administration has been slowly moving forward with this plan, initially announced in April, to ease regulations and provide abortion pills by mail. Read Here
Protecting Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania may be the next state to end taxpayer-funded abortion. The Director of the Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation has announced proceedings to prove that this and the “right” to abortion do not exist in the state’s constitution. Read Here
Good News
Celebrating Adoption: National Adoption Month has almost reached its end, but there have been many ways shared to support foster care and adoption. The organization Focus on the Family has released fifteen of these ways for everyone to show their support. Read Here
Quote of the Week
“Now that I am a parent, I see clearly the beautiful differences my husband and I bring to our family. I see the wholeness and health that my children receive because they have both of their parents living with and loving them. I see how important the role of their father is and how irreplaceable I am as their mother.”
~ Katy Faust, source
