Weekly Briefing

PRI Reveals FIGO’s True Face: Abortion Activism, Not Medicine

The International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) presents itself to the world as a scientific entity dedicated to maternal and gynecological health. However, our latest report, researched and compiled by Population Research Institute’s Ibero-American office, reveals a very different reality: far from focusing on

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Why was USAID Funding Lawsuits Against Traditional Marriage in Peru?

Two Peruvian women recently filed a lawsuit against the government of Peru, demanding the recognition of their civil marriage performed in Argentina. They alleged discrimination because “heterosexual couples can register their marriages performed abroad without any issues.” But they omitted a key detail: same-sex marriage

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Charity for Sale

The shutdown of USAID—and the cries of outrage that came from certain quarters—revealed one surprising fact: The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) through its network of domestic and foreign charitable agencies, was the largest recipient of funds, bar none. Over the lifetime of the now

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UNFPA Stripped of Hundreds of Millions of US Funding

On February 26, 2025, the Trump administration cut off nearly all funding to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) – the UN’s notorious population control agency. In all, some 41 different grants from USAID (the United States Agency for International Development) and the State Department, totaling some

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Genetic Testing is Driving Abortion

Genetic Testing is Driving Abortions

Nottingham University Hospitals in the UK is under investigation. Why? Because the government-run hospital urged several UK couples to abort after prenatal genetic testing supposedly showed that their babies would be born with birth defects. The couples followed the hospital’s advice, only to discover to their

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USAID Has Always Been About Population Control

The National Catholic Register recently published an editorial, “Separate the Wheat From the Chaff in US Foreign Aid,” attempting to balance support for President Donald Trump’s cuts to “rank ideological colonialism” while promoting USAID’s “humanitarian” work, particularly through Catholic Relief Services (CRS). Unfortunately, the article

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Don’t Cry for the Population Controllers at USAID

The closure of a corrupt government agency is always cause for celebration. Not that it happens very often. As President Reagan once remarked, “The closest thing to eternal life on earth is a government program.” In the case of the now-defunct U.S. Agency for International

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Population Control is Now Mind Control

The days of Chinese and Peruvian women being directly coerced into forced abortions and sterilizations is over. These brutal practices still exist, but only in the most heavy-handed dictatorships. Even there they are mostly found in remote regions among persecuted minorities, such as among the Uyghurs in

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USAID Shut Down!

For years PRI has urged the United States to get out of the business of aborting, sterilizing and contracepting the world. Population control began a half century ago in the dark fear of exploding human numbers. Most people now realize that this was an imaginary crisis,

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Charity for Sale

The shutdown of USAID—and the cries of outrage that came from certain quarters—revealed one surprising fact: The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) through its network

Read More »
Genetic Testing is Driving Abortion

Genetic Testing is Driving Abortions

Nottingham University Hospitals in the UK is under investigation. Why? Because the government-run hospital urged several UK couples to abort after prenatal genetic testing supposedly showed

Read More »

USAID Shut Down!

For years PRI has urged the United States to get out of the business of aborting, sterilizing and contracepting the world. Population control began a half

Read More »