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PRI Insider (Volume 5, Issue 29) August 8

August 8, 2025 No Comments

In This Issue: Twenty-two states and the District of Columbia have filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration in an effort to block the defunding of Planned Parenthood. The suit claims this move would devastate state healthcare systems, even though Planned Parenthood has been closing centers and shifting to telehealth for years. At the same time, abortions have reached a record high of over 402,000—up 2.5% from the previous year—while taxpayer funding has soared to $792.2 million, a 13% increase.

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PRI Insider (Volume 5, Issue 26) July 18

July 18, 2025 No Comments

In This Issue: In 2022, nearly one in every three pregnancies (29.7%) in England and Wales ended in abortion—a record high and a sharp increase from 26.5% the year before. This surge follows the 2020 introduction of at-home abortion pills. The total number of abortions reached 247,703, marking a 13% rise from 2021 and a 34% jump since 2012.

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PRI Insider (Volume 5, Issue 24) July 4

July 4, 2025 No Comments

A significant demographic shift is taking place in the U.S. over the past 20 years, with 21 states recording more deaths than births in 2022, and all 50 states experiencing a decline in fertility rates between 2005 and 2023. During that period, the national fertility rate fell 18.4%, dropping from 66.7 to 54.4 births per 1,000 women aged 15–44, according to LendingTree.

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PRI Insider (Volume 5, Issue 22) June 20

June 20, 2025 No Comments

In This Issue: A new peer-reviewed article from the Charlotte Lozier Institute exposes how Planned Parenthood and abortion drugs have driven a nearly 20% rise in U.S. abortions from 2017 to 2023, reversing decades of decline. Planned Parenthood now performs 40% of all abortions (up from 14% in 1999) shifting abortion into a high-volume, supply-driven business.

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PRI Insider (Volume 5, Issue 21) June 13

June 13, 2025 No Comments

In This Issue: Japan is grappling with record low birthrates, a devastating 5.7% drop in 2024, as it continues its 16th straight year of decline. Japan, as well as many other East Asian countries, has a population that is rapidly and continually shrinking. In response to this “silent emergency,” Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has promised to offer a helping hand to married couples by promoting a flexible working environment so they can better balance work and parenting.

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PRI Insider (Volume 5, Issue 20) June 6

June 6, 2025 No Comments

In This Issue: A recent study based on Czech national health data, revealed substantially lower conception rates among vaccinated women between the ages of 18–39, compared to their unvaccinated peers. The analysis, led by Danish researcher Dr. Vibeke Manniche, found that between 2021 and 2022, unvaccinated women were considerably more likely to conceive a child.

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PRI Insider (Volume 5, Issue 19) May 30

May 30, 2025 No Comments

In This Issue: The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued a new guidance urging the widespread use of long-acting contraceptives—including self-injectables—for adolescents, even those under the age of 15. The document also recommends that governments revise age-of-consent laws to expand minors’ ability to access these drugs without parental involvement.

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PRI Insider (Volume 3, Issue 28) July 14

July 13, 2023 No Comments

In This Issue:  PRI in the Media “Anti-Racist” Chinese Charade Involuntary Inoculation Deepening Depopulation Census Crisis Communist China Fewer Births and More Suicide Email Infiltration College Student Jailed UN Misdeeds Technology Takeover Dangerous Drug Science Gone Mad Intellectual Disability and Euthanasia Minimizing Motherhood Pro-Life Around

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What Killed Masculinity?

October 10, 2022 No Comments

For the past twenty years, David Brooks has been The New York Times’ lone columnist daring to be occasionally conservative.    His most recent piece, “The Crisis of Men and Boys,” gropes for causes of the withering away of masculinity in American life.  Statistics abound. Girls

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Finally: A Homily Against Contraception

August 29, 2022 No Comments

  I had an extraordinary experience a few weeks ago while attending Mass at Sacred Heart Parish in Winchester, Virginia.  No, it wasn’t a mystical experience, but it struck me with almost the force of one.  For the first time in 31 years as a Catholic, I

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PRI Insider (Volume 5, Issue 29) August 8

August 8, 2025 No Comments

In This Issue: Twenty-two states and the District of Columbia have filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration in an effort to block the defunding of Planned Parenthood. The suit claims this move would devastate state healthcare systems, even though Planned Parenthood has been closing centers and shifting to telehealth for years. At the same time, abortions have reached a record high of over 402,000—up 2.5% from the previous year—while taxpayer funding has soared to $792.2 million, a 13% increase.

Read More »

PRI Insider (Volume 5, Issue 26) July 18

July 18, 2025 No Comments

In This Issue: In 2022, nearly one in every three pregnancies (29.7%) in England and Wales ended in abortion—a record high and a sharp increase from 26.5% the year before. This surge follows the 2020 introduction of at-home abortion pills. The total number of abortions reached 247,703, marking a 13% rise from 2021 and a 34% jump since 2012.

Read More »

PRI Insider (Volume 5, Issue 24) July 4

July 4, 2025 No Comments

A significant demographic shift is taking place in the U.S. over the past 20 years, with 21 states recording more deaths than births in 2022, and all 50 states experiencing a decline in fertility rates between 2005 and 2023. During that period, the national fertility rate fell 18.4%, dropping from 66.7 to 54.4 births per 1,000 women aged 15–44, according to LendingTree.

Read More »

PRI Insider (Volume 5, Issue 22) June 20

June 20, 2025 No Comments

In This Issue: A new peer-reviewed article from the Charlotte Lozier Institute exposes how Planned Parenthood and abortion drugs have driven a nearly 20% rise in U.S. abortions from 2017 to 2023, reversing decades of decline. Planned Parenthood now performs 40% of all abortions (up from 14% in 1999) shifting abortion into a high-volume, supply-driven business.

Read More »

PRI Insider (Volume 5, Issue 21) June 13

June 13, 2025 No Comments

In This Issue: Japan is grappling with record low birthrates, a devastating 5.7% drop in 2024, as it continues its 16th straight year of decline. Japan, as well as many other East Asian countries, has a population that is rapidly and continually shrinking. In response to this “silent emergency,” Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has promised to offer a helping hand to married couples by promoting a flexible working environment so they can better balance work and parenting.

Read More »

PRI Insider (Volume 5, Issue 20) June 6

June 6, 2025 No Comments

In This Issue: A recent study based on Czech national health data, revealed substantially lower conception rates among vaccinated women between the ages of 18–39, compared to their unvaccinated peers. The analysis, led by Danish researcher Dr. Vibeke Manniche, found that between 2021 and 2022, unvaccinated women were considerably more likely to conceive a child.

Read More »

PRI Insider (Volume 5, Issue 19) May 30

May 30, 2025 No Comments

In This Issue: The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued a new guidance urging the widespread use of long-acting contraceptives—including self-injectables—for adolescents, even those under the age of 15. The document also recommends that governments revise age-of-consent laws to expand minors’ ability to access these drugs without parental involvement.

Read More »

What Killed Masculinity?

October 10, 2022 No Comments

For the past twenty years, David Brooks has been The New York Times’ lone columnist daring to be occasionally conservative.    His most recent piece, “The

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