PRI Insider (Volume 5, Issue 9) March 21
In This Issue: In a rare moment of honesty, Planned Parenthood recently acknowledged the dangers of abortion pills. Casi Scully, a Planned Parenthood associate medical director, admitted that unregulated abortion pills can lead to serious complications like bleeding and infection.
PRI Insider (Volume 5, Issue 8) March 14
In This Issue: PRI President Steven Mosher celebrates the shutdown of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) as a monumental victory for American taxpayers and the country’s values. The closure will save $54 billion annually and ends a long-standing history of misused taxpayer funds, including reckless spending on woke ideologies such as funding LGBT activism, promoting transgender surgeries, and advancing gender and diversity initiatives globally.
PRI Insider (Volume 5, Issue 7) February 28
In This Issue: On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge from pro-life activists, led by Coalition Life, against “buffer zone” restrictions around abortion clinics in Illinois. These buffer zones violate pro-lifers’ First Amendment free speech rights. However, the Supreme Court decided to uphold lower court dismissals, which drew strong dissent from Justice Clarence Thomas.
PRI Insider (Volume 5, Issue 6) February 21
In This Issue: A woman named Krystena Murray filed a lawsuit against Coastal Fertility Specialists, a fertility clinic chain in South Carolina and Georgia, after she was implanted with the wrong embryo. Murray, a white woman who had selected a white sperm donor, realized the child was not biologically hers when she delivered a black baby. The clinic allegedly informed the biological parents of the child, who then sued Murray for custody.
PRI Insider (Volume 5, Issue 5) February 14
In This Issue: A disturbing human trafficking operation has been uncovered in the Eastern European country Georgia. At least 100 women were held captive as slaves at a “human egg farm.” The women, lured by promises of high-paying surrogacy work, were instead trapped by Chinese gangsters who forcibly harvested their eggs after pumping them with hormones and anesthetizing them monthly.
PRI Insider (Volume 5, Issue 4) February 7
In This Issue: A recent Financial Times article, referencing work from the Institute of Family Studies, highlighted the main cause of declining fertility rates: falling marriage rates. While the public perceives that unmarried births are increasing and marriage is fading, in reality, the share of births to unmarried parents in the U.S. is slowly decreasing. Marriage, still a strong predictor of fertility behavior globally, remains important for having children.
PRI Insider (Volume 5, Issue 3) January 31
In This Issue: On January 18th, PRI President Steven Mosher was the keynote speaker at the Ave Maria March for Life. Over 1,300 individuals took part in this Fourth Annual Ave Maria March for Life. The March was a joint effort of the Parish Respect Life Ministry, Ave Maria University, and the Knights of Columbus.
PRI Insider (Volume 5, Issue 2) January 24
In This Issue: Today is the 52nd annual March for Life in Washington, D.C., but that isn’t the only pro-life event taking place. This year is the 30th annual National Memorial for the Pre-Born and Their Mothers and Fathers, which includes a prayer service at 8:30 a.m. followed by a meet-and-greet at 10:30 a.m. PRI is a proud co-sponsor of this event.
PRI Insider (Volume 5, Issue 1) January 17
In This Issue: According to a new report from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), deaths will outpace births in about eight years in the United States. This estimation is seven years sooner than the estimation released by the CBO just last year.
PRI Insider (Volume 4, Issue 51) December 27
In This Issue: A growing number of American adults are facing a “kinless” Christmas, with declining marriage and fertility rates leading to more people without spouses or children. For the first time in U.S. history, the share of “kinless” prime-aged adults (18-55), defined as those who are never married and have no children at home, has surpassed those who are married with children.