In This Issue:
- PRI in the Media
- Population Control Continues
- Deepening Depopulation
- Banning Child-Free Propaganda
- The Age of Depopulation
- Communist China
- More Incentives
- UN Misdeeds
- UN Pushes Censorship
- Pro-Life Around the World
- NZ Group Backs APR
- UK Death Bill
- Pro-Life on the Home Front
- Cutting Off Planned Parenthood
- Michigan Teaches Abortion
- Wyoming Loses Protections
- Good News
- A Ferry Baby
PRI in the Media
Population Control Continues: The globalist elites running most Western governments have been, and still are, pushing population control. They push abortion and euthanasia under the mantra of “choice,” but this is, in Steven Mosher’s words, “merely a convenient cover to generate popular support for their underlying aim: to sterilize, abort, euthanize, or transgender-ize the majority of mankind out of existence.” For these leaders, it doesn’t matter that many birth rates around the globe are already below replacement. Just last year, Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the EU Commission and the most powerful politician in Europe, claimed, “Stop economic and population growth – or else our planet will not cope.” For these leaders, it doesn’t matter that their claims are based on fraudulent studies, they will continue to call for population reduction policies.
Deepening Depopulation
Banning Child-Free Propaganda: Around the world, countries with low birth rates are seeing their governments put incentives into place to motivate marriage and childbearing. For the most part, these incentives haven’t worked. But Russia is taking a different approach. A new law criminalizing “child-free propaganda” passed the lower house of parliament earlier this month, and is expected to pass the upper house and be signed by President Putin. The speaker of the lower house, Vyacheslav Volodin, stated, “Childfree propaganda is a socially dangerous phenomenon. The Americans are promoting this. Our country is vast and their ideology is dangerous. Under no circumstances should it be allowed to spread.” If it passes, the legislation will ban “childfree propaganda” on the internet and in the media, films, and advertisements.
The Age of Depopulation: Humans are entering a new era: The age of depopulation. Fertility rates are falling, but why is this happening? Economist Lant Pritchett’s 1994 discovery highlighted the most powerful predictor of fertility: what women want. Fertility rates correlate closely with women’s desires for children, underscoring human agency–volition–as a key driver. However, the global shift to below-replacement fertility remains unexplained, especially as it affects both rich and poor countries alike.
“Young American women still want slightly more than two children when you survey them,” says Mr. Mosher. “So ‘volition shapes birth rates’ may be true for the individual, but not for the general population of young American women. Various factors are preventing young women from achieving their fertility goals. If we can remove some or all of these hindrances, the birth rate will go up.”
Communist China
More Incentives: Authorities in the western Chinese province of Gansu have started offering cash payouts of up to 100,000 yuan (US$13,800) to families who have another baby in an effort to boost flagging birth rates. In Subei County, a rural county in the western province of Gansu, the local population of just 12,657 now sees fewer than five live births a month. According to CCP county health official Shi Wanjun, “Subei county will be offering birth and maternity leave, medical assistance and other rewards to families with two or three children who are permanently resident in the county.” Shi said the government would also cover medical expenses for childbirth, including a hospital stay. The move is part of local government plans to “steadily implement the three-child policy, boost birth rates … and deal with the aging population,” it quoted Shi as saying.
UN Misdeeds
UN Pushes Censorship: Censorship was the focus of the most recent UN General Assembly. Argentina stood alone in opposing censorship by voting against a resolution on violence against women in digital spaces. The resolution, sponsored by France and the Netherlands, called for censorship of all forms of discrimination on the basis of gender, and included “broad and undefined terms such as hate speech, misinformation, and disinformation, which are easily abused to restrict free speech.” While Argentina was alone in voting against the resolution, several countries opposed other elements of the resolution, including controversial language on abortion, sexual and reproductive health, and transgender issues.
Pro-Life Around the World
NZ Group Backs APR: New Zealand’s Right to Life organization is continuing its campaign to provide women with information on the life-saving Abortion Pill Reversal (APR) protocol, despite opposition from the country’s Ministry of Health. Earlier this year, the Ministry issued a statement against the use of progesterone for APR, calling it an “unsafe and scientifically unsupported practice” and warning that promoting it could result in severe legal consequences, including imprisonment and hefty fines. The Ministry claimed that APR lacks clinical research support and could lead to harmful side effects.
“In an unprecedented assault on human rights, the Ministry of Health has threatened our doctors with prosecution and possible prison sentences, if they provide the hormone progesterone to any woman, in order to reverse their early medical abortion,” Right to Life New Zealand said in a statement. “Right to Life believes that the Ministry of Health, which should be at the forefront in defending the right to life of our precious unborn children, and the health of their mothers, has been infiltrated by the pro-abortion movement, who are advocates for the “culture of death.”
“The radical pro-aborts who run NZ’s Ministry of Health are ignoring ‘the science,’ in favor of promoting their radical abortion agenda,” says Mr. Mosher. “They are not pro-choice, they are pro-death–and they are abusing their authority to insist that others be pro-death as well.”
For more information on the Abortion Pill, read our fact sheet.
For more information on Abortion Pill Reversal, click here.
UK Death Bill: A leading palliative care expert has expressed concerns over the UK’s Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill. Professor Bill Noble, former president of the Association for Palliative Medicine, pointed out that patients may be coerced into choosing assisted suicide due to family pressure, particularly for financial reasons such as insurance payouts. He warned that some patients could die prematurely if the proposed bill becomes law, citing instances where families have manipulated patients’ wishes for medical intervention. His concerns were echoed by political figures like Health Secretary Wes Streeting and Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey, who worry that legalizing assisted suicide could lead to indirect pressure on vulnerable individuals, particularly older people, to end their lives to avoid being a burden.
Pro-Life on the Home Front
Cutting Off Planned Parenthood: In this Wall Street Journal op-ed, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, appointed co-commissioners of the new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) by President-elect Donald Trump, outlined their plan to reduce federal overspending. They highlighted that DOGE would target unauthorized expenditures, including the nearly $300 million in taxpayer funds sent to Planned Parenthood annually. Other areas of focus include the $535 million allocated to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and $1.5 billion in grants to international organizations. Musk and Ramaswamy emphasized that their goal is to deliver cost savings for taxpayers, leveraging their commission’s authority to push for structural reductions in the federal government. Trump’s announcement of DOGE indicated that the commission will conclude its work by July 4, 2026, aiming to create a more efficient government in time for America’s 250th anniversary.
“Both President Trump and Elon Musk want to increase the American birth rate,” says Mr. Mosher. “So while they are not against all abortions, they are pro-natal. Cutting funding to Planned Parenthood is something that pro-lifers and pro-natalists see eye to eye on. It will at the same time reduce the abortion rate and increase the birth rate.”
Michigan Teaches Abortion: Michigan Democratic lawmakers, led by State Rep. Rachel Hood, have introduced a bill to remove the state’s ban on teaching abortion as a “method of family planning” in sex education. The bill proposes an overhaul of Michigan’s sex education standards, eliminating the sentence that currently prohibits teaching abortion as a method of reproductive health. Hood and 21 co-sponsors aim to include information on the effectiveness and safety of all FDA-approved contraceptive methods, potentially including the abortion pill, and require teachers to provide “unbiased” information about all legally available pregnancy outcomes. The bill was introduced on November 12.
Wyoming Loses Protections: Teton County District Judge Melissa Owens ruled that Wyoming cannot enforce its general abortion ban or its ban on the use and distribution of abortion pills. Last year, Wyoming enacted the Life Is a Human Right Act, which banned all abortions, surgical and chemical, except in cases of rape, incest, lethal fetal abnormalities, or medical emergencies. It also prohibited public funding for abortions. Owens struck down both laws, claiming they infringe on the fundamental right of pregnant women to make health care decisions.
Good News
A Ferry Baby: A baby girl in Canada was born seven weeks early, while her mother was on a seven-hour ferry ride. At 33 weeks pregnant, Lindsey Gale boarded a ferry to go visit a friend in Cape Breton. During the ride, she started to feel what she thought were “Braxton Hicks” contractions, until it became apparent that it was true labor. Gale labored the rest of the ferry ride, and her baby girl, Miley, was born less than three minutes after they docked, with five newly arrived paramedics to assist. In a social media post, Gale expressed her gratitude to everyone who helped with the chaotic delivery and said that she will certainly look at the ferry differently from now on. “Night crossings will never be the same for me again, that’s for certain!”
Quote of the Week
“The first and most fundamental unit of social organization is the natural family, consisting of a father, a mother, and their natural or adopted children.”
~ PRI President Steven Mosher
