September 20, 2002 Volume 4/ Number 23 Dear Colleague: USAID funding of population control programs continues at record levels, designed to drive down fertility rates in developing countries. Yet birth rates in targeted countries like the Dominican Republic and Peru are already low—and falling. Fertility
September 12, 2002 Volume 4/ Number 22 Dear Colleague: Global birthrates are falling fast, yet maternal and child mortality rates, largely caused by preventable diseases, remain high. We are not meeting the basic needs of mothers and children, while making every effort to surgically and
September 6, 2002 Volume 4/ Number 21 Dear Colleague: We report this week on a major lawsuit filed against Norplant. PRI is publicizing this suit as part of its ABOUT FACE campaign, designed to inform women and lawyers of their right to access accurate information
August 28, 2002 Volume 4/ Number 20 Dear Colleague: The population controllers are at it again, cooking up phony statistics in a desperate effort to get more of our money. Their argument is nonsensical on the face of it: “We save lives by preventing children
August 14, 2002 Volume 4/ Number 19 Dear Colleague: PRI associates have been working in Afghanistan for the past few months, and have discovered that U.N. population control efforts threaten Afghan women, children and families, run roughshod over Afghan laws, and even undercut American basic
August 2, 2002 Volume 4/ Number 18 Dear Colleague: The empire strikes back. In response to the Bush Administration’s decision to cut UNFPA funding, its supporters in Congress are attempting to strike Kemp-Kasten from the 2003 foreign aid bill and reward UNFPA with a
July 22, 2002 Volume 4/ Number 17 Dear Colleague: An independent congressional committee of the Peruvian government has charged that the U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA) supported the forced sterilization campaigns executed by former Peruvian dictator Alberto Fujimori. The report of the Peruvian congressional commission provides
July 16, 2002 Volume 4/ Number 16 Dear Colleague: Funding for domestic family planning under Title X was $254 million for FY 2001. Much of this money goes towards providing contraception to teens and minors. Given the abuse, many lawmakers have called these programs into
July 2, 2002 Volume 4/ Number 15 Dear Colleague: The battle to withhold UNFPA funding appears to be over. President Bush is expected to announce within the next several weeks that UNFPA will receive no U.S. funding. A State Department investigation, not yet made public,
June 25, 2002 Volume 4/ Number 14 Dear Colleague: One of the most common methods of abortion in the developing world is Manual Vacuum Aspiration (MVA). Not only is this method of abortion immoral, it is extremely unsafe for women. Today, the international abortion movement
September 20, 2002 Volume 4/ Number 23 Dear Colleague: USAID funding of population control programs continues at record levels, designed to drive down fertility rates
September 12, 2002 Volume 4/ Number 22 Dear Colleague: Global birthrates are falling fast, yet maternal and child mortality rates, largely caused by preventable diseases,
September 6, 2002 Volume 4/ Number 21 Dear Colleague: We report this week on a major lawsuit filed against Norplant. PRI is publicizing this suit
August 28, 2002 Volume 4/ Number 20 Dear Colleague: The population controllers are at it again, cooking up phony statistics in a desperate effort to
August 14, 2002 Volume 4/ Number 19 Dear Colleague: PRI associates have been working in Afghanistan for the past few months, and have discovered that
August 2, 2002 Volume 4/ Number 18 Dear Colleague: The empire strikes back. In response to the Bush Administration’s decision to cut UNFPA funding,
July 22, 2002 Volume 4/ Number 17 Dear Colleague: An independent congressional committee of the Peruvian government has charged that the U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA)
July 16, 2002 Volume 4/ Number 16 Dear Colleague: Funding for domestic family planning under Title X was $254 million for FY 2001. Much of
July 2, 2002 Volume 4/ Number 15 Dear Colleague: The battle to withhold UNFPA funding appears to be over. President Bush is expected to announce
June 25, 2002 Volume 4/ Number 14 Dear Colleague: One of the most common methods of abortion in the developing world is Manual Vacuum Aspiration