In This Issue:
- PRI in the Media
- Global Birthrates at Historic Lows
- Deepening Depopulation
- Partisan Divide in U.S. Birthrates
- Tax Breaks Alone Won’t Save Birthrates
- Communist China
- China Arrests Christian Leader
- UN Misdeeds
- U.S. Rejects Woke UN Agenda
- Science Gone Mad
- $30M for Designer Babies
- UK Patients Fight to Save Embryos
- Pro-Life Around the World
- Assisted Suicide Advances in Scotland
- Babies Survive Abortions Monthly
- Paid Leave for Late-Term Abortions
- Pro-Life on the Home Front
- Alaska Weighs Abortion Providers
- Illinois Moves Toward Assisted Suicide
- 70% Want Abortion Safeguards
- Good News
- HeartReach Expands Pro-Life Care
PRI in the Media
Global Birthrates at Historic Lows: This week, PRI President Steven Mosher was featured on The Silo, where he warned that the world is entering a historic era of population decline. Global fertility rates have now fallen to their lowest level in 60 years. As just one example, Canada’s birth rate has dropped to just 1.25 children per woman, the lowest in its history. Mr. Mosher cautioned that continued low fertility rates will lead to a “gradual implosion of the world’s economy” as nations age, workforces shrink, and social systems strain. He emphasized that once population decline accelerates beyond a certain point, reversing it becomes extremely difficult. Countries including China, South Korea, and even the United States are now facing a demographic winter.
Deepening Depopulation
Partisan Divide in U.S. Birthrates: New data shows a widening gap in birth rates between conservative and progressive regions of the United States. On average, counties that voted for Donald Trump have significantly higher fertility rates (1.76) than those that voted for Kamala Harris (1.37). Scholars suggest that the divide reflects differing views of marriage, family formation, and desired family size.
Tax Breaks Alone Won’t Save Birthrates: As Britain’s fertility continues to fall—with England and Wales reporting a total fertility rate of just 1.41 in 2024, the lowest since records began in 1938—policymakers are proposing tax incentives for parents, looking to models in Poland, France, and Hungary. But while such programs have produced brief upticks, they have not reversed long-term decline. Britain’s falling birthrate reflects deeper instability: rising housing costs, weak economic growth, and uncertainty about the future. Without addressing these underlying economic and social pressures, tax breaks alone will not be enough to revive the nation’s birthrate.
Communist China
China Arrests Christian Leader: China has arrested another Christian believer for worshiping outside state control. Li Guiwen, a Lisu Christian from Yunnan Province, was detained in August and has now been formally arrested on charges of “organizing illegal religious activities,” after leading small prayer groups in private homes. His community, made up largely of ethnic minority Christians displaced after a 2002 disaster, has long gathered quietly for fellowship outside the state-sanctioned venues. Li’s case is yet another example of the CCP’s ongoing campaign to suppress house churches and criminalize ordinary believers who simply wish to worship freely.
UN Misdeeds
U.S. Rejects Woke UN Agenda: The Trump administration has adopted a new diplomatic strategy at the UN: no more negotiating on resolutions that promote gender ideology, climate extremism, violations of human rights, or mass-migration agendas. Instead, the U.S. will simply vote against any measure that contradicts its commitment to inalienable human rights, religious freedom, and the protection of the family. Ambassador Mike Waltz said the goal is to remove the UN’s climate and gender activism and “cut out all the nonsense,” refocusing the institution to its original mission of maintaining peace. The shift marks a decisive break from entrenched UN bureaucracy.
Science Gone Mad
$30M for Designer Babies: A biotech entrepreneur has raised $30 million to launch a new company, Preventive, dedicated to researching heritable genome editing—the genetic alteration of embryos so that engineered traits can be passed to future generations. Gene-editing embryos remains illegal in the U.S., and the first scientist to attempt it in China was imprisoned. Yet, tech investors continue pushing to redesign the human person at the genetic level. This research treats human embryos as products to be edited, optimized, and discarded.
UK Patients Fight to Save Embryos: In the UK, at least 15 fertility patients are now in court to stop their frozen embryos from being destroyed due to clinic “administrative errors” under recently changed storage rules. The clinics continued collecting storage fees while allowing consent to lapse—and now claim the embryos must be removed from the freezer and discarded. This sheds light on the evils of the IVF industry.
Pro-Life Around the World
Assisted Suicide Advances in Scotland: The Scottish Parliament has voted to advance the Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults Bill, effectively granting what critics are calling a “blank cheque” to establish assisted suicide services. The bill would allow assisted suicide for anyone 16 or older deemed mentally competent and terminally ill, with no prognosis requirement. MSPs warned that funding would be diverted from palliative care, social care, and other essential services. Currently, one in four Scots already cannot access end-of-life care. One MSP argued the bill makes it “easier to choose to die than to live.” The measure passed earlier stages by just 14 votes—meaning only seven MSPs switching could stop it at the final stage.
“Scotland’s solution to its low birth rates—among the lowest in Europe—is to increase its death rates,” says Mr. Mosher. “This will only accelerate Scotland’s depopulation over time.”
Babies Survive Abortions Monthly: New Zealand government data has revealed that babies are regularly surviving abortion attempts and then being left to die. Family First obtained official records showing that at least 80 abortions since 2020 resulted in live births, meaning babies between 20–30 weeks were born alive but denied medical care. Lawmakers previously rejected an amendment requiring care for abortion survivors, with Minister of Health & Labour MP Andrew Little claiming such cases were unlikely. Yet, one health district openly stated that life-sustaining care is offered only to “wanted” babies, while others reported simply wrapping the child in a blanket and waiting for death.
Paid Leave for Late-Term Abortions: Australia’s Senate has passed the Fair Work Amendment (“Baby Priya’s”) Bill, intended to protect paid parental leave for parents who lose a child to stillbirth or newborn death. However, because Australian law defines stillbirth as any child over 20 weeks’ gestation, the bill also requires employers to provide paid parental leave following intentional late-term abortions. Labor and the Greens forced the bill through by cutting off debate and rejecting amendments that would have excluded abortions. This law blurs the line between tragic loss and deliberate termination.
Pro-Life on the Home Front
Alaska Weighs Abortion Providers: Alaska’s Supreme Court is reviewing whether the state can continue to require that only licensed physicians perform abortions, a safeguard that has been in place since 1970. That rule has been suspended for the past four years due to a lower court decision backed by Planned Parenthood, allowing advanced practice clinicians to perform abortions instead. This further weakens medical safeguards. The upcoming ruling will decide whether Alaska restores these longstanding protections or further expands abortion access.
Illinois Moves Toward Assisted Suicide: In the early hours of October 31, the Illinois legislature quietly advanced an assisted suicide bill, hidden inside unrelated “food safety” legislation, and approved just before 3 a.m. The bill would allow patients with a prognosis of six months or less to be given lethal medication, prompting strong condemnation from Catholic leaders who warn it will pressure the poor and disabled to end their lives. The Catholic Conference of Illinois called the vote yet another of the many “assaults on human dignity,” urging Governor Pritzker to veto the bill and instead expand access to palliative care. If he signs it, Illinois would become the 12th state to legalize assisted suicide.
70% Want Abortion Safeguards: A new national poll from McLaughlin & Associates found that 70% of U.S. voters want to restore safety safeguards on the abortion drug mifepristone, including 71% who support requiring at least one in-person doctor’s visit. Notably, 57% of liberal voters agree. 59% of respondents said chemical abortion is unsafe or are unsure, and only 16% believe the pills are “very safe.” Large majorities also support accurate FDA reporting of complications (87%), banning abortion pills from being obtained online without consent (81%), and screening for coercion (70%). The data shows that most Americans want more safeguards for chemical abortions.
Good News
HeartReach Expands Pro-Life Care: HeartReach Center in Wasilla is celebrating 40 years of serving women and families facing crisis pregnancies, trauma, and life-altering situations. Over the past year, the center has doubled its impact, providing more than 4,300 client visits, 359 ultrasounds, 323 pregnancy tests, 1,352 parenting classes, and support for two successful abortion-pill reversals. HeartReach recently added a medical wing to expand care. “Every statistic is a name, a face, and a life that matters deeply to God,” said Executive Director Joyce Moropoulos. The center is now preparing its annual Client Christmas Event to help families in need during the winter season.
Quote of the Week
“The climate cult is promoted and funded by those who hope to profit financially or politically from it. The global warming hoax is one of the chief drivers of the ongoing war on population and babies that we fight every day.”
~ PRI President Steven Mosher
