Weekly Briefing

Ending Daughter Elimination in the Developing World

This article originally appeared in the Washington Examiner.  It is reprinted with permission and does not fall under PRI’s Creative Commons 3.0 license.   For most parents, daughters are a blessing. But in many parts of south and east Asia, where there exists a strong, culturally-rooted preference

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The Slaughter of Girls Continues in India

Nearly 550,000 unborn girls are killed in India every year by sex-selective abortion, a newly released report from the Population Research Institute (PRI) has found. The findings highlight the shocking extent to which girls in India—and other parts of the world—continue to be selectively targeted

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We Celebrate People!

World Population Day is an occasion for the “Anti-People Crowd” to don sackcloth and ashes and bemoan human population growth.  Led by the U.N., demonstrators will march in major cities protesting overcrowding.  Today is the United Nations’ 30th annual “World Population Day.” Though the UN

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Holland’s Tax Code Punishes Families, Stay-at-home Moms

The Netherlands often prides itself on equality and tolerance, yet, written into the Dutch tax code are profound inequalities that place significantly heavier tax burdens on families with a stay-at-home parent. In the Netherlands, a traditional family with a sole breadwinner and a stay-at-home mom

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Center For Disease Control Admits: NFP Works!

Young women are being taught to use the Morning-After Pill, but are deliberately not being told how it works.  At the same time, they are deliberately not being taught how to use Natural Family Planning, or NFP, which—even the CDC now admits—does work. For years,

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U.N. Committee Launches Attack on U.S Pro-Life Laws

The U.N. Human Rights Committee has taken broad aim at pro-life laws and policies in the United States. Meeting last month, the Committee called on the Trump administration to “review” a number of its pro-life policies, suggesting that these were incompatible with international law.  The

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We Celebrate People!

World Population Day is an occasion for the “Anti-People Crowd” to don sackcloth and ashes and bemoan human population growth.  Led by the U.N., demonstrators

Read More »