Weekly Briefing

A War on Maternity Waged in the Name of Mother Earth

I often come across persons who attempt to justify forced abortion, sterilization, and contraception because “We (that is, human beings) are destroying the planet”. They view people as pollution, and argue that it is necessary to violate reproductive rights to protect the planet from the

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A Veiled Critique of the One-Child Policy

This article was originally published in the Washington Times on April 7, 2015. In outline, Mo Yan’s new novel, “Frog,” sounds subversive enough: A jilted Chinese midwife turns agent of the state. She is relentless in her pursuit of women who have conceived “illegal” second

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March for Life in Lima Breaks All Records.

On Saturday, March 21st, 2015 more than a half million people marched in the streets of the Peruvian capital in defense of innocent unborn human life. Assisted and funded in part by the Latin American office of the Population Research Institute, the March for Life

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Sterilization Camps in India

Anne Roback Morse gave an address on March 13, 2015 at the United Nations surrounding the Commission on the Status of Women at a panel titled, “Coerced Sterilizations, Abortions, and Reproductive Rights.” The following remarks are based on excerpts from that address. Last November, 83

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Kenya Examination

This report contains specific, documented charges that, if true, have grave implications for the current operating model of Catholic Relief Services (CRS). While it is true that Catholic Relief Services has done much good work for the poor, displaced and marginalized, the evidence presented in the report demands sober and prayerful consideration

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Violent population control continues in China

Contrary to recent reports, China’s population control policy still systematically enforces a policy of coerced abortion, sterilization, and child abandonment. The propaganda, coercion, and violence used by the Chinese Family Planning police continues to violate the rights of Chinese women, men, and their unborn children.

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“We are Being Treated Like Animals”

Less than two months after 13 women died in the neighboring state of Chhattisgarh, 43 women were sterilized in unsanitary and inhumane conditions in Chatra, a northern district in the Indian state of Jharkhand. Knowing the facility had no electricity, the sterilization camp coordinator rented a

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USAID Funding of Sterilization Camps in India

We released a report outlining some of the horrors of India’s sterilization camps. We called the world’s attention to the US Agency for International Development’s complicity in coercive sterilization camps in India. Among the evidence was a report published by the OECD describing a multi-million

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Kenya Examination

This report contains specific, documented charges that, if true, have grave implications for the current operating model of Catholic Relief Services (CRS). While it is true that Catholic Relief Services has done much good work for the poor, displaced and marginalized, the evidence presented in the report demands sober and prayerful consideration

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