Weekly Briefing

Planned Parenthood’s Crumbling Abortion Empire

Planned Parenthood’s Crumbling Abortion Empire

Since the 70s, Planned Parenthood has billed itself as an organization devoted to the “comprehensive care” of women’s health, one whose services tens of millions of women rely upon not just for IUDs and abortions, but for everything from prenatal care to breast cancer screenings.  Based

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Time to Grin and Bear it—Babies, I mean.

America’s dismal birth rates are often blamed on economics.  But the cost of bearing and raising children is only part of the reason the American total fertility rate, at 1.6 children per woman, is at historic lows. Equally important in discouraging young people from marrying and

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Pope Paul VI signed Humanae vitae on July 25, 1968.

Happy Birthday, Humanae Vitae

Fifty-six years ago this week, Pope Paul VI released an encyclical that shocked the world. Not because it said something new, but because it not only refused to conform, but openly rejected the spirit of the age. Change was sweeping across the world in the

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Birth Control Pill

Poison Pill

The invention of the hormonal birth control pill in the 1960s was billed as a scientific triumph.  In one fell swoop, this pharmaceutical innovation would free women to choose their own destinies.  They could pursue careers without the “burden” of an unplanned pregnancy, while delaying marriage or

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FP2030 claims to be about Women’s Empowerment

FP2030 claims to be about Women’s Empowerment

Meet FP2030: the global initiative powered by foreign aid, billionaire philanthropy, and policy pressure, all aimed at driving down fertility, particularly among the world’s poorest nations and peoples. That’s not how it’s advertised. FP2030 is being marketed as a “rights-based, empowering, and voluntary” program.  It comes packaged with

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President Trump, please sign this Executive Order

President Trump, please sign this Executive Order

U.S. government agencies have never engaged in open coercion to force down the birth rate, at least within the borders of the United States. (USAID’s past actions overseas are another matter.) We are, after all, not China. There, the birth control police hunted down women

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Denied U.S. Funding, the UNFPA Claims it’s Not Anti-Natal

Denied U.S. Funding, the UNFPA Claims it’s Not Anti-Natal

The UNFPA, born in the dark fear of exploding human numbers, has always been driven by a desire to reduce human numbers. Its annual reports have typically been focused on population growth, pushing abortion, sterilization, and contraception to combat “overpopulation.” But now that the world’s

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Pope Leo XIV

Could Pope Leo XIV be Any More Pro-Life?

People are parsing every word uttered by the new Pope, Leo XIV, eager to see if he will preach the fullness of the Catholic faith, without compromise or confusion. As the leader of a pro-life, pro-family group, Population Research Institute, which has worked closely with

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Birth Control Pill

Poison Pill

The invention of the hormonal birth control pill in the 1960s was billed as a scientific triumph.  In one fell swoop, this pharmaceutical innovation would free

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