In This Issue:
- PRI in the Media
- Trump Strategy Pressures China
- Billion-Dollar Fund for Abortion
- Mosher Featured by Mackinder Forum
- Deepening Depopulation
- The Loneliness of Childlessness
- Communist China
- China Battles Birth Decline
- China’s sex-selection abortions
- UN Misdeeds
- UN Children’s Books Push Ideology
- Science Gone Mad
- IVF at Sixty-Three
- Pro-Life Around the World
- Babies Born Alive After Abortions
- Luxembourg Constitutionalizes Abortion
- Abortion Advocate for UN Secretary?
- Pro-Life on the Home Front
- Ohio’s Rising Abortion Numbers
- Senate Bill Targets Mifepristone
- Good News
- Wyoming Passes Heartbeat Law
PRI in the Media
Trump Strategy Pressures China: This week, PRI President Steven Mosher appeared on One Nation with Brian Kilmeade to discuss the broader implications of President Trump’s pressure campaign against Iran. Mr. Mosher explained that the strategy is aimed not only at Tehran but also at China’s global influence. Because China relies heavily on Iranian oil—accounting for about 75% of its imports from Iran—U.S. efforts to restrict that supply place Beijing in a vulnerable position, potentially weakening China’s strategic leverage on the world stage.
Billion-Dollar Fund for Abortion: This week, Steven Mosher and PRI team member Samantha Lejeune collaborated on an article exposing a new funding effort tied to TED’s “Audacious Project,” which recently announced $1.03 billion in grants. Among the beneficiaries is the abortion group Ipas, which is seeking $350 million to expand abortion access and reduce so-called “unsafe” abortions by 30% across 10 countries by 2040, including Nigeria, Kenya, and India. The initiative represents a new wave of privately funded pressure to overturn pro-life laws in developing nations.
Mosher Featured by Mackinder Forum: Mr. Mosher’s recent New York Post article, “Trump Hit Iran—but He’s Really Got China in His Crosshairs,” was highlighted in the Mackinder Forum’s weekly geopolitical bulletin covering global developments from February 28 to March 6, 2026. Mr. Mosher argues that U.S. pressure on Iran may also be aimed at weakening China’s strategic position by disrupting its access to discounted Iranian oil. His analysis was featured alongside other expert assessments examining the broader geopolitical and economic implications of the growing Iran crisis.
Deepening Depopulation
The Loneliness of Childlessness: A 2025 AARP poll found that 40% of Americans age 45 and older report feeling lonely, up from 35% in 2010. Research also shows that older adults without children report significantly higher levels of loneliness than parents. The trend may worsen as fertility declines: projections suggest nearly 30% of American women born in 1989 will remain childless. As more people age without spouses or children, growing numbers may face old age alone.
“It is often said that most social science research simply confirms what is intuitively obvious,” says Mr. Mosher. “And what could be more obvious than the fact that the childless are more lonely than those who have children and grandchildren. As my dear friend, the late Father Paul Marx, was fond of saying, ‘The saddest funerals are those in which the deceased had no children.’ I would just add that the sadness often begins years before, with the death of a spouse and other close relatives.”
Communist China
China Battles Birth Decline: China’s leadership has proposed new policies to promote “positive attitudes toward marriage and childbearing” as the country faces a deepening demographic crisis. Officials say they will expand childcare support, reduce childbirth costs, and strengthen elderly care as the population rapidly ages. China’s total fertility rate has fallen to around 1.0, while births dropped 17% in 2025 alone. With a shrinking workforce and record numbers of retirees, it remains uncertain whether government incentives can reverse the country’s long-term population decline.
“The ‘big change’ in question is state-subsidized child care,” says Mr. Mosher. “I hate to break it to the old men who rule China, but child care doesn’t significantly increase fertility. By keeping women in the work force, it keeps them out of the maternity wards.”
China’s sex-selection abortions: A 2024 Congressional-Executive Commission on China report found that among third children there are 133 boys born for every 100 girls—a severe gender imbalance produced by decades of coercive population control. The report also estimates more than 30 million more men than women in China today. Globally, sex-selective abortion has led to 100–200 million missing women, a number comparable to the total deaths from all 20th-century wars.
UN Misdeeds
UN Children’s Books Push Ideology: A children’s book exhibit at UN headquarters in New York is drawing criticism for promoting gender ideology, polyamory, and surrogacy to young readers. The display, titled “Turning the Page on Change,” features more than 170 books selected by the Bologna Children’s Book Fair and tied to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. Several titles present gender as fluid, normalize alternative family structures through IVF and surrogacy, and include controversial illustrations.
Science Gone Mad
IVF at Sixty-Three: A 63-year-old Chinese woman recently gave birth to a baby girl after conceiving through IVF following the death of her only son. The child was delivered by caesarean section in Jilin province. The case has sparked widespread debate online. Some warn that IVF is increasingly being used to create children for elderly parents. The story also highlights the growing reliance on IVF in a nation still grappling with the consequences of decades of population control, which left an estimated one million families grieving the loss of their only child.
Pro-Life Around the World
Babies Born Alive After Abortions: New data from Ireland’s Health Service Executive shows 108 babies were born alive after failed abortions between 2019 and 2023, only to die shortly afterward. The most recent figures report 29 such deaths in 2023. At least four of the babies were more than 24 weeks gestation and/or weighed over 500 grams, meaning they would have been able to survive outside the womb; how these babies died or whether they received medical care has not been disclosed. The revelations come as abortion numbers surge in Ireland, with 10,852 abortions recorded in 2024—a 62% increase since 2019, when abortion-on-demand was legalized.
“This is abortion’s ugly secret, namely, that many babies are born alive after the abortionists attempt and fail to execute them in the womb,” says Mr. Mosher. “These survivors are invariably then left to die in a final homicidal act. That’s why we in America need to pass the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act. Ireland needs a similar law.”
Luxembourg Constitutionalizes Abortion: Luxembourg has become the second nation, after France, to enshrine abortion as a constitutional “freedom.” On March 1, 2026, 48 of the nation’s 60 lawmakers voted in favor of the amendment, easily surpassing the required two-thirds majority. Under current law, abortion is permitted on demand up to 12 weeks of pregnancy. Elevating abortion to constitutional status further entrenches the destruction of unborn life while placing the issue beyond democratic debate and free speech, and religious liberty.
Abortion Advocate for UN Secretary?: Pro-life advocates are raising alarms over the possible nomination of former Chilean president Michelle Bachelet as the next UN Secretary-General, citing her long record of promoting abortion policies in international institutions. As UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the first head of UN Women, Bachelet repeatedly framed abortion as a “human rights” issue and criticized pro-life laws, including the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision. Her leadership could intensify pressure on nations to adopt abortion policies and undermine national sovereignty.
“We at PRI are appalled that the rabidly pro-abortion former president of Chile would be considered as UN Secretary General,” says Mr. Mother. “Our Latin American office worked long and hard to defeat some of her anti-life proposals while she was the president of her Latin American country. She would arguably be even worse on the world stage.”
Pro-Life on the Home Front
Ohio’s Rising Abortion Numbers: Ohio recorded 25,135 abortions in 2025, a 15% increase from 19,892 in 2024, according to the state’s latest report. Officials say the rise was driven largely by telehealth prescriptions for abortion pills. Most abortions occurred early in pregnancy, with 73% performed before nine weeks. Women ages 18–24 accounted for 32.8% of abortions, the largest group. The report follows Ohio’s 2023 constitutional amendment allowing abortion up to viability, which has expanded abortion access across the state.
Senate Bill Targets Mifepristone: Sen. Josh Hawley has introduced legislation to revoke FDA approval for mifepristone, the abortion pill used in a majority of U.S. abortions. Since its approval in 2000, an estimated 7.5 million women have used the drug, which accounted for 63% of all abortions in 2023. Hawley cited research suggesting serious health complications in about 11% of cases and warned the pill is vulnerable to abuse through mail-order prescriptions across state lines.
Good News
Wyoming Passes Heartbeat Law: Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon signed the Human Heartbeat Act (House Bill 126) into law on March 9. The bill protects unborn children once a heartbeat can be detected. While expressing strong support for defending unborn life, Gordon warned the measure may face legal challenges following the Wyoming Supreme Court’s State v. Johnson decision, which weakened abortion restrictions. The governor said a more durable solution may ultimately require a constitutional amendment, cautioning that the new law could again draw the state into prolonged pro-life litigation.
Quote of the Week
“The protection of the right to life constitutes the indispensable foundation of every other human right.”
~ Pope Leo XIV
