In This Issue: Taiwan has broken the record for world’s lowest birth rate, according to newly released government data. Births fell for the 10th consecutive year, with just 107,812 newborns in 2025, a 20% drop from 2024. Taiwan’s birth rate stands at 4.62 per 1,000 people, with its total fertility rate estimated at around 0.72, despite recent government subsidies aimed at boosting births.
In This Issue: President Trump sparked backlash from pro-life leaders after urging House Republicans to be “flexible” on the Hyde Amendment, the 1976 provision barring most federal abortion funding, including through Medicaid. The remarks drew swift criticism from pro-life groups and lawmakers who warned that Hyde is a non-negotiable principle.
In This Issue: New research from the Institute for Family Studies finds a widening divide in marriage and childbearing, with liberal young adults increasingly less likely to form families. The analysis shows that even liberal adults report higher happiness when married with children, yet family formation is declining fastest on the Left. The trend has demographic consequences: Since 2000, states that voted for Donald Trump in 2024 have seen their child population rise about 7%, while states that voted for Kamala Harris have seen theirs fall by roughly 7%.
In This Issue: Northern Ireland recorded a tragic 2,899 abortions from April 2024 to March 2025—the highest ever—marking a 3.7% rise from last year and an 84% increase since 2021. Late-term abortions more than doubled to 154 (a 103% jump), and disability-selective abortions rose 19%. Abortions among girls under 18 have climbed 61% since 2021.
In This Issue: PRI’s Latin American office is proud to report that the Peruvian Congress has passed a new law on equal opportunity between men and women that respects the biological reality that there are only two sexes. This is a huge victory for Peru and for PRI, which provided the intellectual “muscle” behind this effort. The new law throws out the “gender ideology” concept that was forced on Peru by Obama’s USAID and which has been the guiding principle of Peruvian governments since 2014.
In This Issue: A Scottish Government-commissioned review—led by a former trustee of the UK’s largest abortion provider—is advocating for the scrapping of Scotland’s 24-week abortion limit. This would allow abortions on “social grounds,” including sex-selective abortions, up to birth. In 2024, 98% of Scotland’s 18,710 abortions were performed under a clause interpreted to allow abortion for social reasons.
In This Issue: Malta has announced new tax cuts for families with two or more children in an effort to combat its record-low fertility rate, now the lowest in the European Union at just 1.06. Finance Minister Clyde Caruana called declining native births the country’s “biggest challenge.”
In This Issue: According to a new report from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), Australia’s fertility rate has fallen to a record low of 1.48 births per woman in 2024, sparking warnings that the nation is nearing a “point of no return.” Women aged 30–34 recorded the highest fertility rate—106 births per 1,000 women, a slight rise from the previous year.
In This Issue: The FDA, under Trump appointee Dr. Marty Makary, has approved new generic abortion pills made by Evita Solution, a company that openly seeks to “normalize abortion” and make it “accessible to all.” Despite promises of a full safety review of the chemical abortion drug, the FDA instead fast-tracked approval, prompting outrage from U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley.
In This Issue: Denmark has formally apologized for decades of secretly inserting intrauterine devices (IUDs) into Greenlandic women and girls—some as young as 12—without their knowledge or consent. Between the late 1960s and early 1990s, over 4,000 were subjected to the program, part of a population-control push to suppress Inuit birth rates. Victims later faced infertility, trauma, and lifelong health complications.
In This Issue: Taiwan has broken the record for world’s lowest birth rate, according to newly released government data. Births fell for the 10th consecutive year, with just 107,812 newborns in 2025, a 20% drop from 2024. Taiwan’s birth rate stands at 4.62 per 1,000 people, with its total fertility rate estimated at around 0.72, despite recent government subsidies aimed at boosting births.
In This Issue: President Trump sparked backlash from pro-life leaders after urging House Republicans to be “flexible” on the Hyde Amendment, the 1976 provision barring most federal abortion funding, including through Medicaid. The remarks drew swift criticism from pro-life groups and lawmakers who warned that Hyde is a non-negotiable principle.
In This Issue: New research from the Institute for Family Studies finds a widening divide in marriage and childbearing, with liberal young adults increasingly less likely to form families. The analysis shows that even liberal adults report higher happiness when married with children, yet family formation is declining fastest on the Left. The trend has demographic consequences: Since 2000, states that voted for Donald Trump in 2024 have seen their child population rise about 7%, while states that voted for Kamala Harris have seen theirs fall by roughly 7%.
In This Issue: Northern Ireland recorded a tragic 2,899 abortions from April 2024 to March 2025—the highest ever—marking a 3.7% rise from last year and an 84% increase since 2021. Late-term abortions more than doubled to 154 (a 103% jump), and disability-selective abortions rose 19%. Abortions among girls under 18 have climbed 61% since 2021.
In This Issue: PRI’s Latin American office is proud to report that the Peruvian Congress has passed a new law on equal opportunity between men and women that respects the biological reality that there are only two sexes. This is a huge victory for Peru and for PRI, which provided the intellectual “muscle” behind this effort. The new law throws out the “gender ideology” concept that was forced on Peru by Obama’s USAID and which has been the guiding principle of Peruvian governments since 2014.
In This Issue: A Scottish Government-commissioned review—led by a former trustee of the UK’s largest abortion provider—is advocating for the scrapping of Scotland’s 24-week abortion limit. This would allow abortions on “social grounds,” including sex-selective abortions, up to birth. In 2024, 98% of Scotland’s 18,710 abortions were performed under a clause interpreted to allow abortion for social reasons.
In This Issue: Malta has announced new tax cuts for families with two or more children in an effort to combat its record-low fertility rate, now the lowest in the European Union at just 1.06. Finance Minister Clyde Caruana called declining native births the country’s “biggest challenge.”
In This Issue: According to a new report from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), Australia’s fertility rate has fallen to a record low of 1.48 births per woman in 2024, sparking warnings that the nation is nearing a “point of no return.” Women aged 30–34 recorded the highest fertility rate—106 births per 1,000 women, a slight rise from the previous year.
In This Issue: The FDA, under Trump appointee Dr. Marty Makary, has approved new generic abortion pills made by Evita Solution, a company that openly seeks to “normalize abortion” and make it “accessible to all.” Despite promises of a full safety review of the chemical abortion drug, the FDA instead fast-tracked approval, prompting outrage from U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley.
In This Issue: Denmark has formally apologized for decades of secretly inserting intrauterine devices (IUDs) into Greenlandic women and girls—some as young as 12—without their knowledge or consent. Between the late 1960s and early 1990s, over 4,000 were subjected to the program, part of a population-control push to suppress Inuit birth rates. Victims later faced infertility, trauma, and lifelong health complications.