Weekly Briefing

Exposing Population Control: Tanzania

  The East African country of Tanzania suffers from many challenges, but overpopulation is not one of them. The subtropical country has a land area larger than California, Michigan, Arizona, and Virginia combined, and a population only about the size of California’s and Virginia’s combined.

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Check the pulse: An update on heartbeat legislation

Heartbeat legislation, which places restrictions on abortion once a fetal heartbeat can be detected, continues to move forward. The month of March has been particularly busy. The Alabama House of Representatives passed heartbeat legislation, while a heartbeat bill was reintroduced in the Ohio state Senate. And while

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Justice Denied in Peru’s Sterilization Campaign

Fifteen years ago, Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori, with the strong encouragement of the Clinton administration, ordered a nationwide sterilization campaign. At least 300,000 women were sterilized by “mobile sterilization teams” on a Chinese model, many under duress. Some died. PRI sent a team of investigators into the

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On Abortion and Maternal Mortality

“The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.” —Mark Twain Nothing will build the legitimacy of your arguments more than using terms correctly, and nothing will destroy it faster than using terms incorrectly.

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Winter Games in a Wintering Nation

Reports of terrorist threats, human rights abuses, and general economic incompetency have already marred the opening of the 2014 winter Olympics. These failings in Russia represent the face of the greatest myth propagated this past half-century: that low-fertility creates a successful society. Population controllers lure

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PRI Takes Down Abortion-Promoting Blog

For some years now, the abortion movement has been setting up so-called “safe abortion hotlines” in Latin American countries, and secretly (and illegally) advertising them on the internet. In Peru, the offensive website was under the domain of Blogspot, and it relentlessly promoted abortion. Women

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Why the baby kidnapper shouldn’t die

An obstetrician in the Shaanxi province of China was sentenced to death for child trafficking this week. The 55 year old woman repeatedly told her patients that their new born infant was either deformed or sick. She persuaded the new parents to give up their children

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Will Spain Abolish Abortion?

Even before Spain’s Socialist government declared abortion a women’s “right” in 2010, Spain had become known as the abortion capital of Europe. Although abortions are supposedly allowed only up to 14 weeks, this limitation is widely ignored, and women travel there from  all over the continent for

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Russia Chooses Life

Last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law banning abortion advertising. Some members of the Duma (the Russian state assembly), are talking about going even further and banning the procedure itself.  The Russian Orthodox Church, whose numbers are swelling with converts and “reverts,” is

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Will Spain Abolish Abortion?

Even before Spain’s Socialist government declared abortion a women’s “right” in 2010, Spain had become known as the abortion capital of Europe. Although abortions are supposedly allowed

Read More »

Russia Chooses Life

Last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law banning abortion advertising. Some members of the Duma (the Russian state assembly), are talking about going

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