In This Issue:
- PRI in the Media
- China’s Collapsing Economy
- Deepening Depopulation
- Fertility Remains Low
- Japan Set to Shrink
- Communist China
- China Ignores Pope’s Death
- Repeal the Deal
- Zen Travels to Rome
- UN Misdeeds
- No Men, No Pro-Lifers
- Science Gone Mad
- Dangers Exposed
- Pro-Life Around the World
- Ipas Strikes Again
- France Undermines Poland
- A Tragic Anniversary
- Pro-Life on the Home Front
- Boulder Clinic Closes
- Ads Distract From Truth
- Investigation Made Illegal
- Forced to Fund Abortion
- Suing to End Safeguards
- End the Drug Trafficking
- Good News
- Pro-Life Education Makes Headway
PRI in the Media
China’s Collapsing Economy: PRI President Steven Mosher recently appeared on The First with Jesse Kelly to answer the question, “Is China’s economy going to collapse?”
During this interview, Mr. Mosher covered:
- China’s long history of cheating on trade and taking advantage of the U.S.
- China’s exploitation of the United States’ southern border, over which it sent shipments of fentanyl and deployed sleeper agents
- How Trump’s tariffs will affect the Chinese economy, which relies heavily on its low-wage export sector
And more!
Deepening Depopulation
Fertility Remains Low: The Center for Disease Control has released the provisional population data for 2024. The report indicates that the number of births rose by 1% compared to 2023, reaching 3,622,673 in 2024. This led to a slight uptick—less than 1%—in the general fertility rate. However, the U.S. fertility rate is still sitting at a near record low of 1.63, which is solidly below replacement (2.1).
Japan Set to Shrink: This week, 60 Minutes highlighted the severe depopulation crisis that Japan is currently facing. Japan’s population is projected to shrink by half by the end of the century. Despite being the world’s third-largest economy and having a high life expectancy, Japan’s fertility rate is at a record low, with deaths outpacing births and fewer marriages than ever. Rural towns like Ichino are nearly empty, with dolls replacing absent residents, while urban centers struggle with a work culture that deters family life. Even government programs, dating apps, and shorter work weeks have failed to reverse the trend. Leaders and citizens are calling for a deeper mindset shift—repopulating rural areas, rethinking work-life balance, and embracing new values—as Japan becomes a striking example of the challenges other nations may soon face.
Communist China
China Ignores Pope’s Death: While Catholics around the world mourned the death of Pope Francis with widespread tributes and coverage, China’s Patriotic Catholic Church offered only minimal acknowledgment. The news was relegated to the bottom of its website with just two lines and no front-page mention. Instead, Chinese authorities prioritized celebrating the 76th anniversary of the Communist victory in Nanjing, with some Chinese Catholics participating in state-organized events honoring fallen PLA soldiers, completely omitting any reference to the Pope’s passing.
Repeal the Deal: On April 30, the Committee on the Present Danger: China (CPDC), Save the Persecuted Christians (STPC), and other activists launched the “Reveal the Deal, Repeal the Deal: (RTD2) campaign to expose and dismantle the secret agreement between the Vatican and the Chinese Communist Party. The campaign, which began with a webinar titled “The Vatican’s ‘Suicide Pact’ with the CCP,” aims to inform Church leaders and the public about the harmful consequences of the deal and generate pressure ahead of the upcoming conclave. Organizers hope to make opposition to the agreement a decisive issue during the upcoming conclave.
Zen Travels to Rome: Cardinal Joseph Zen, the 93-year-old retired bishop of Hong Kong and outspoken critic of China’s influence over the Church, was granted permission to leave the city last week to attend Pope Francis’ funeral. Despite being on bail following his 2022 arrest under the national security law, a court temporarily returned his confiscated passport, allowing him to travel to Vatican City. Zen, who has faced years of persecution under the Chinese Communist Party, was accompanied by a member of the Salesian religious order.
UN Misdeeds
No Men, No Pro-Lifers: The race to select the next UN Secretary-General is underway, with leading candidates all being women and staunch abortion advocates. Feminist organizations backed by Western governments are lobbying for a female Secretary-General, with 45 UN member states urging the Security Council to nominate women. The frontrunner is Michelle Bachelet, former president of Chile and UN human rights chief, praised by the feminist left for advancing abortion and gender ideology. Other contenders include Mia Mottley, prime minister of Barbados, who supports abortion and homosexual issues, and Rebecca Grynspan, a Costa Rican former UN official with a history of promoting abortion within the UN system.
Science Gone Mad
Dangers Exposed: The Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC) has exposed the true dangers of the abortion drug mifepristone. The EPPC recently released the largest-known study on this abortion pill, analyzing data from 865,727 abortions between 2017 and 2023. The study found that 10.93% of women experienced serious adverse events—such as sepsis, infection, or hemorrhage—within 45 days of taking the drug, a rate at least 22 times higher than what clinical trials reported. Citing these findings, the report urges the FDA to reinstate stricter safety protocols, require full side-effect reporting, and reconsider the drug’s approval based on objective safety concerns.
“The Biden administration hid the dangers of the abortion pill from young women,” says Mr. Mosher. “How many died or were injured as a result? And note that this new study included women experiencing severe complications in one of the world’s wealthiest countries, where hospitals, clinics, and expert providers are relatively plentiful. This is not the case in many poorer, developing countries where women suffer much higher rates of death.”
To learn more, read “Everything You Need to Know About the Abortion Pill”
Pro-Life Around the World
Ipas Strikes Again: The global abortion advocate, Ipas, has launched a new project aimed at furthering the abortion movement: Read to Resist. Ipas’s “Resist and Persist” campaign, including its new toolkit, aggressively promotes abortion and contraception under the guise of “reproductive justice,” while pushing a radical agenda that includes LGBTQ activism and gender ideology. The campaign not only seeks to expand abortion access globally but also frames opposition to abortion as rooted in white supremacy, targeting pro-life values and U.S. policies like the Helms Amendment. The toolkit is a clear advocacy tool designed to normalize abortion and encourage activism, even in countries that have traditionally protected unborn life.
“IPAS is not content just to distribute MVAs [Manual Vacuum Aspirators] around the world to execute unborn babies, they are also sexual, DEI, Marxist radicals of the most extreme sort,” says Mr. Mosher. “See their reading list, which includes virtually every perverted ideological pathology known to man. I suppose we shouldn’t be surprised. If they will kill unborn babies, what wouldn’t they do?”
France Undermines Poland: On Tuesday, French hard-left politicians from the France Unbowed (LFI) party visited Poland to deliver around 300 abortion and morning-after pills to activists. This move, supporting the so-called “right” to abortion in the country, showed blatant disregard for Poland’s pro-life laws. Most abortions are prohibited in Poland, with exceptions for pregnancy resulting from sexual assault or incest or when the pregnancy poses a direct threat to the life or health of the mother. While assisting abortion is punishable by imprisonment, there are no laws against women self-administering pills purchased online.
A Tragic Anniversary: Since the Abortion Act came into effect in 1968, over 10.7 million unborn babies have lost their lives to abortion in the UK. That’s one baby lost to abortion every two minutes. Marking 57 years since the law’s implementation, recent statistics reveal record-high abortion numbers across England and Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland. The rise has coincided with the introduction of ‘DIY’ home abortion services. Despite these trends, public opinion consistently favors stronger protections for unborn babies and more support for pregnant women, with only 1% supporting abortion up to birth and 70% of women wanting the limit reduced to 20 weeks or less.
Pro-Life on the Home Front
Boulder Clinic Closes: After over 50 years of ending innocent lives, 86-year-old late-term abortionist Warren Hern has permanently closed the Boulder Abortion Clinic, a facility notorious for performing abortions up to 36 weeks. Hern, who admitted to carrying out over 40,000 abortions—including more than 1,000 in the second and third trimesters—called the closure a “difficult decision” but expressed pride in what he considered his “life’s work.” Despite his early psychological distress over the graphic reality of abortion, Hern eventually hardened himself, even performing sex-selective abortions and denying that gestational age determines viability. His retirement and the shuttering of one of the few remaining late-term abortion centers in the U.S. is a major step forward in protecting all unborn children.
Ads Distract From Truth: As Planned Parenthood faces increasing scrutiny over patient safety and service quality, political ads, backed by Reproductive Rights for All (formerly NARAL), are attempting to shield the organization while attacking pro-life lawmakers. These ads falsely claim that defunding abortion providers like Planned Parenthood would harm women’s healthcare. However, Marjorie Dannenfelser of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America argues that redirecting taxpayer funds away from abortion businesses to federally qualified community health centers—of which there are 15 times more than Planned Parenthood—would actually improve women’s health services. This political push comes as Planned Parenthood continues to be exposed for its horrific “care standards,” including unsanitary conditions, medical negligence, and operational failures that endanger patients.
Investigation Made Illegal: Washington state Democrats have passed a controversial bill, now awaiting Governor Bob Ferguson’s signature, that will severely hinder investigations into infanticide and sex trafficking. Cloaked under the misleading title “an act relating to dignity in pregnancy loss,” Senate Bill 5093 repeals the crime of concealing a birth and strips coroners of the authority to investigate suspicious infant deaths unless an obvious crime is present. Conservative voices like Jason Rantz and Republican lawmakers have condemned the measure as a dangerous shield for traffickers and abusers, arguing it prioritizes ideology over justice and would allow infant deaths to go unexamined and unpunished.
Forced to Fund Abortion: Governor Jared Polis has signed SB25-183 into law, forcing Colorado taxpayers to fund abortions despite strong opposition from pro-life citizens. The law follows the repeal of Section 50 of the state constitution through Amendment 79, which was passed in 2024 and enshrined abortion as a constitutional right while allowing it to be included in state-funded health insurance plans. With this legislation, $1.5 million in taxpayer money will now be used to reimburse abortion costs. Only a few weeks ago, pro-lifers rallied by the thousands at the state capitol to defend unborn life, but Polis chose to disregard their convictions, turning a deeply divisive political agenda into a mandatory public expense.
Suing to End Safeguards: A pro-abortion nonprofit called Right By You has filed a lawsuit to overturn Missouri’s parental consent law. This law currently protects minors by requiring at least one parent’s approval—and notification of the other—before an abortion can be performed. Despite Missouri voters passing an abortion rights amendment last year, the parental consent law remains a critical safeguard for vulnerable young girls. The group is also challenging the state’s ban on aiding or assisting a minor in obtaining an abortion, further undermining parental rights and exposing minors to dangerous procedures without proper oversight or family involvement.
End the Drug Trafficking: Texas is taking bold steps to combat the trafficking of abortion pills. The latest Senate-approved bill allows private citizens to sue anyone—manufacturers, mailers, or distributors—who deliver abortion drugs into the state, with penalties of at least $100,000 per violation. Passed by a 19–11 vote, the legislation builds on the successful 2021 private enforcement model and is the most sweeping crackdown on abortion-inducing drugs in the nation. It also strengthens wrongful death claims related to abortion and targets internet and financial services that support the distribution of abortion pills, marking a major pro-life advancement in the effort to protect unborn children in Texas.
Good News
Pro-Life Education Makes Headway: Iowa is poised to take a major step forward in pro-life education, as a bill requiring fetal development instruction in grades 5–12 now heads to the governor’s desk. Senate File 175 mandates that students be shown ultrasound videos and computer-generated animations that highlight the humanity of the unborn child from the moment of fertilization. Modeled after similar laws in other states, this legislation ensures students receive a clear and science-based understanding of prenatal development. An amendment also ensures that materials cannot come from sources that perform or promote abortion, further strengthening the bill’s life-affirming intent.
Quote of the Week
“Pregnancy is not an ‘Illness.’ Pregnancy is a normal physiological state most women experience one or more times during their childbearing years – a natural process essential to perpetuating human life.”
~ Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, source
