People are the World's Greatest Resource

Our growing, global network of pro-life groups spans over 80 countries
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Our Mission

The Population Research Institute is a (501c3) non-profit research organization. Our core values hold that people are the world’s greatest resource. Our goals are to educate on this premise, to expose the myth of overpopulation, and to expose human rights abuses committed in population control programs. Our growing, global network of pro-life groups spans over 80 countries.

We pledge to:

debunk

Debunk

The myth of overpopulation, which cheapens human life and paves the way for abusive population control programs

Expose

The relentless promotion of abortion, abortifacient contraception, and chemical and surgical sterilization in misleadingly labeled “population stabilization,” “family planning,” and “reproductive health” programs.
defund

Defund

These anti-human programs by exposing the coercion, deception, and racism inherent in them
emphasize

Emphasize

That people are the most valuable resource on the planet, the one resource we cannot do without.
promote

Promote

Pro-natal and pro-family attitudes, laws, and policies worldwide.
encourage

Encourage

Programs to help the poor become agents of their own development.

Weekly Briefing

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

Global Outreach Projects

Our international work spans 80 countries, and includes projects to educate on the dignity of human life, to save as many babies as we can from the horrors of abortion, to assist expectant mothers, and to expose abuses in population control programs.
In recent years, Catholic parents have faced increasing challenges in their efforts to raise their children with a proper understanding of life, love, and family. While they’ve been diligently teaching their children traditional values at home, the schools they have relied…
… You and I and our fellow PRI supporters have a God-given chance to hand a monumental defeat to Planned Parenthood, while saving hundreds and even thousands of babies in a fairly short amount of time.
China’s infamous “planned birth” policy has brought forced abortion and sterilization, fines, persecution, and imprisonment to millions of Chinese women. For decades, the Chinese government brutally…
PRI has been tracking India and the abuses under its population control program for decades. We are currently working on a comprehensive report of Indian sterilization abuses, but for now, see some of our existing…

Catholic Relief Services: An Investigative Report

The Lepanto Institute and the Population Research Institute recently completed a field investigation of Catholic Relief Service’s projects in Cameroon, Zimbabwe, and Lesotho.
We initiated the investigation out of concern that CRS had led the implementation of a PEPFAR program called “Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-Free, Mentored, and Safe women” (DREAMS) in several African countries, and that in this context was promoting condoms and contraception as well as implementing health referral networks that included abortion and contraception promoters and providers.

Meet Our President

Steven Mosher Teaches Global Pandemics

Steven W. Mosher is an internationally recognized authority on China and population issues, as well as an acclaimed author, speaker. He has worked tirelessly since 1979 to fight coercive population control programs and has helped hundreds of thousands of women and families worldwide over the years.

In 1979, Steven was the first American social scientist to visit mainland China. He was invited there by the Chinese government, where he had access to government documents and actually witnessed women being forced to have abortions under the new “one-child policy.” Some abortions he witnessed were late term. Mr. Mosher was a pro-choice atheist at the time, but witnessing these traumatic abortions led him to reconsider his convictions and to eventually become a practicing, pro-life Roman Catholic.

Steven has appeared numerous times before Congress as an expert in world population, China, and human rights abuses. He has also made TV appearances on Good Morning America, 60 Minutes, The Today Show, 20/20, FOX and CNN news, as well as being a regular guest on talk radio shows across the nation.

He is also the author of the best-selling A Mother’s Ordeal: One Woman’s Fight Against China’s One-Child Policy. Other books include Hegemon: China’s Plan to Dominate Asia and the World, China Attacks, China Misperceived: American Illusions and Chinese Reality, Journey to the Forbidden China, Broken Earth: The Rural Chinese, and his most recent book Bully of Asia: Why ‘China’s Dream’ is the New Threat to World Order.

Articles by Steve have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Reader’s Digest, The New Republic, The Washington Post, National Review, Reason, The Asian Wall Street Journal, Freedom Review, Linacre Quarterly, Catholic World Report, Human Life Review, First Things, and numerous other publications.

More Articles

We publish weekly commentaries on pro-life news around the world.
Key areas of focus are abortion, population control, human rights abuses, Catholic issues, and China.
The biggest abortion promoters, the World Health Organization and the Guttmacher institute, have every reason to exaggerate the number of abortions worldwide each year.  So when the World Health Organization and the Guttmacher Institute both...
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...
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...
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,...

PRI Insider

A weekly compilation of pro-life news in the U.S. and abroad, with commentary from our President Steven Mosher
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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...

Core Issues

We fight against false narratives that are used to control and eliminate vulnerable groups of people around the world.
What is it? Is all population control bad? How is it affecting me?
Who created the concept? Should I be worried? Is this based on fact or fear?
Is climate change just a scare tactic? Is Greta Thunberg right?