In This Issue:
- PRI in the Media
- Abortion Chatbot Targets African Women
- Why Push the COVID Shot on Pregnant Moms?
- Deepening Depopulation
- Singapore Government Launches Dating App
- Trump Ties Transit Funds to Birth Rates
- Communist China
- China Repurposes Empty Schools
- China Arrests Pastor for “Illegal” Worship
- UN Misdeeds
- Iceland Pushes Abortion at UN
- Science Gone Mad
- China’s IVF Industry Set to Triple
- Pro-Life Around the World
- UK Removes Penalties for Illegal Abortions
- Australia Sees Abortion Pill Surge
- UK Woman Arrested for Praying
- Pro-Life on the Home Front
- Three States Fight Abortion Pill Trafficking
- Massachusetts Pro-Lifers Fight Back
- Good News
- 24-Week Baby Defies the Odds
PRI in the Media
Abortion Chatbot Targets African Women: Recently, PRI President Steven Mosher and PRI Team Member Samantha Lejeune featured their article in LifeSiteNews exposing an abortion chatbot targeting women and girls in Africa. PRI tested “Nurse Nisa,” a chatbot created by abortion provider Ipas, which assured users that abortion pills are safe for “women and girls of all ages” and provided instructions for taking misoprostol. Mr. Mosher and Mrs. Lejeune warn that the chatbot offers dangerous advice while directing women toward abortion rather than real medical care and support.
Why Push the COVID Shot on Pregnant Moms?: This week, Mr. Mosher featured his article in LifeSiteNews questioning why the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists continues to promote COVID vaccines for healthy pregnant women. Mr. Mosher highlighted research raising concerns about vaccination during pregnancy and noted that the evidence remains mixed. He also questioned why ACOG continues recommending the vaccine after the CDC stopped routinely recommending COVID vaccination for healthy pregnant women in 2025.
Deepening Depopulation
Singapore Government Launches Dating App: Singapore has launched a government-run dating platform as the country struggles with record-low fertility. The pilot phase is open to public-sector employees ages 21 to 35 and matches users based on their interests, lifestyles, and values. Singapore’s fertility rate fell from 0.97 in 2024 to a record-low 0.87 last year. By 2030, one in four Singaporean citizens is projected to be 65 or older.
Trump Ties Transit Funds to Birth Rates: The Trump administration is considering tying federal transportation funding to local birth and marriage rates as part of an overhaul of its Capital Investment Grants program. Under the proposal, communities with birth and marriage rates near or above the national average could qualify for an additional 10 percentage points in federal funding. The proposal comes as the U.S. birth rate fell to a record low in 2025.
“Transportation projects should be encouraged in communities which are actually growing and which will have higher ridership in the future,” says Mr. Mosher. “This is nothing more than common sense. The Biden administration handed out federal grants disproportionately to Blue States, whether they were growing or not. This will now change. Federal funding will align with where communities and families are actually growing.”
Communist China
China Repurposes Empty Schools: China’s collapsing birth rate is reshaping communities across the country, as empty schools are converted into elderly care facilities. Primary school admissions and preschool enrollment each fell about 10% in 2025, while the number of educational institutions dropped more than 6%. China recorded just 7.92 million births last year, down 17% from 2024, as the country’s population declined for a fourth consecutive year.
“China’s hospitals have been closing maternity wards and opening up geriatric wards for many years now,” says Mr. Mother. “Now the schools have emptied out as well and are being converted into old age homes. In the years to come, they will be turning the schoolyards into graveyards, as China’s birth rate continues to fall to some of the lowest levels ever recorded for a human population.”
China Arrests Pastor for “Illegal” Worship: Chinese authorities have detained Protestant Pastor An Yankui on suspicion of “organizing illegal religious activities,” as the CCP continues its crackdown on unregistered churches. An Yankui leads the Taiyuan Xuncheng Reformed Church and has been repeatedly detained since 2020. The latest arrest comes as more than 150 church leaders and pastors reportedly remain imprisoned across China for practicing their faith outside the state-controlled religious system.
UN Misdeeds
Iceland Pushes Abortion at UN: Iceland is using the UN’s Universal Periodic Review process to aggressively push abortion and gender ideology on other nations. During the latest session, nearly 3,900 recommendations were issued to 14 countries, but Iceland stood out. It was responsible for more than 20% of the 124 recommendations concerning sexual orientation and gender identity and over 60% of all recommendations concerning abortion.
Science Gone Mad
China’s IVF Industry Set to Triple: China’s IVF industry is projected to more than triple in value, growing from $5.05 billion in 2025 to $15.29 billion by 2034. The expanding market is being driven by rising infertility, delayed parenthood and government efforts to boost births. Fertility clinics are also increasingly adopting technologies including genetic testing, cryopreservation, time-lapse embryo monitoring and artificial intelligence to assess and select embryos, further commodifying human embryos as the industry grows.
Pro-Life Around the World
UK Removes Penalties for Illegal Abortions: The UK Government has admitted that women in England and Wales can no longer be criminally prosecuted for deceiving doctors about gestational age to obtain abortion pills beyond the legal limit. The change follows the Crime and Policing Act 2026, which removed criminal penalties for women ending their own pregnancies. Government data also revealed that 71% of abortion-related cases prosecuted under previous laws involved male defendants.
Australia Sees Abortion Pill Surge: Access to abortion pills has surged across Australia since the government removed restrictions on who could prescribe and dispense abortion drugs in 2023. A new study found that the number of pharmacies ordering the abortion drugs mifepristone and misoprostol jumped from 2,228 before the change to 4,107 afterward. By July 2025, abortion pill availability through pharmacies was nearly 49% higher than researchers estimated it would have been without the policy change.
UK Woman Arrested for Praying: British pro-life volunteer Isabel Vaughan-Spruce has pleaded not guilty to charges stemming from silently praying outside an abortion facility in Birmingham. She was charged under a national law establishing buffer zones around abortion facilities. During a preliminary hearing, Judge Tan Ikram said merely standing in the zone was not a crime and that prosecutors must show she intended to influence or harass others. Vaughan-Spruce’s trial is scheduled for January.
Pro-Life on the Home Front
Three States Fight Abortion Pill Trafficking: The attorneys general of Louisiana, Arkansas and Alabama have filed a lawsuit challenging the illegal shipment of abortion drugs into their pro-life states from jurisdictions with shield laws. The September 30 lawsuit seeks damages from organizations and individuals accused of illegally mailing abortion pills and misleading women about their risks. Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill said the shipments have resulted in women being hospitalized and the deaths of thousands of unborn children.
Massachusetts Pro-Lifers Fight Back: Massachusetts pro-lifers are mobilizing to repeal a new law that removes previous restrictions on abortions after 24 weeks. The Compassionate Care Coalition is gathering signatures to place the measure on the 2028 ballot. Organizers must collect 37,289 certified signatures by October 23 to qualify for the ballot, or 49,716 to potentially suspend the law before it takes effect on November 8.
“We at PRI support Massachusetts Citizens for Life’s petition drive,” says Mr. Mosher. “The horrific law railroaded through the legislature allows abortion up to birth for any reason whatsoever and must be overturned. I spoke at the last MCL convention and am certain, having met with many of its thousands of supporters, that this group is determined to fight for life and will prevail.”
Good News
24-Week Baby Defies the Odds: Baby Remy, who was born prematurely at just 24 weeks, has celebrated his first birthday after overcoming extraordinary odds. Weighing only 1 pound and 8 ounces at birth, Remy faced numerous serious health complications, and his mother was initially told he would not survive. After spending 125 days in the hospital, Remy was finally able to go home.
Quote of the Week
“The defense of life does not always advance through sweeping constitutional reforms. Sometimes it progresses by gradually recovering fundamental truths that seemed to have been forgotten.”
~ Carlos Beltramo, Ph.D. | PRI European Office
