PRI Insider (Volume 4, Issue 22) June 7
In This Issue: By 2050, over three-quarters of countries will have fertility rates below replacement (2.1). By 2100, this will increase to 97% of countries. Fertility rates have rapidly changed in the last 70 years, with the global Total Fertility Rate falling from ~5 in 1950 to 2.2 in 2021. Now, the world is facing another 70 years of rapid change. 2100 may sound far away, but children born today will live to see a low-fertility world.
PRI Insider (Volume 4, Issue 21) May 31
In This Issue: According to a recent report from the Charlotte Lozier Institute, there has been a significant increase in life-affirming services provided by American pro-life pregnancy resource centers from 2019 to 2022. With 2,750 such centers across the nation, the value of life-affirming pregnancy services and material support offered rose to nearly $367.9 million in 2022.
PRI Insider (Volume 4, Issue 20) May 24
In This Issue: Planned Parenthood now offers the abortion pills through its app in four states. The abortion giant is pushing abortion access through all available avenues. Planned Parenthood’s “Direct” app also offers “birth control, UTI treatments, and the emergency contraception Ella delivered to their door without seeing a doctor.” Women in Hawaii, Maryland, Washington, and now Illinois can receive the deadly combination of mifepristone and misoprostol without an in-person visit.
PRI Insider (Volume 4, Issue 19) May 17
In This Issue: Last week, South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol announced that he would be creating a “Ministry of Fertility” to counter the country’s low fertility rate. South Korea has the lowest fertility rate in the world at 0.72, which President Yoon called “a national emergency.”
PRI Insider (Volume 4, Issue 18) May 10
In This Issue: Countries brought their grievances over low fertility rates to this year’s UN Commission on Population and Development. Representatives voiced concerns over the potential consequences of falling fertility rates, including anemic economic growth, labor shortages, fiscal insolvency, and other social problems. Yet, even as representatives from countries in the Middle East and Europe shared these concerns, representatives of Western countries and UN agencies continued to push for lowering populations.
PRI Insider (Volume 4, Issue 17) May 3
In This Issue: The Center for Disease Control and Prevention has released the provisional birth rate data for 2023 and the U.S. was once again in decline. The statistics revealed that a little under 3.6 million babies were born last year, which is 76,000 fewer than the year before. It is also the lowest one-year tally since 1979.
PRI Insider (Volume 4, Issue 17) April 26
In This Issue: In March, Iowa tabled legislation that would have made it a felony to “cause the death” of an “unborn person.” Iowa is trying to avoid introducing personhood legislation, which recognizes the unborn child as having legal rights and protections. Alabama’s recent Supreme Court decision regarding IVF put personhood legislation in the spotlight for all the states.
PRI Insider (Volume 4, Issue 15) April 19th
In This Issue: Planned Parenthood’s 2022-2023 annual report revealed that the organization provided a total of 392,715 abortions. If the CDC factored child deaths caused by abortion into their “Leading Causes of Death” data, that would make Planned Parenthood-performed abortions the fourth leading cause of death, behind heart disease, cancer, and Covid-19.
PRI Insider (Volume 4, Issue 14) April 12
In This Issue: New data regarding American fertility may hold a silver lining to the “birth dearth” that the nation is experiencing. As we have highlighted previously, the U.S. fertility rate is below replacement and, in general, continues to trend downward. However, data from 2022 suggests that while Americans are having fewer babies, the babies that are being born are more likely to be born to married parents.
PRI Insider (Volume 4, Issue 13) April 5
In This Issue: This week, the political network for values celebrated our Ibero-American office’s 20th anniversary on social media, stating the following:
“Congratulations to the Population Research Institute for their 20 years of service in Ibero-America. We join them in the celebration and look forward to continuing to work together to defend life, family, and liberties.”