In This Issue:
- PRI in the Media
- Population Control Coming
- Deepening Depopulation
- Adults with No Children
- Is Kamala an Extinctionist?
- Communist China
- The Coming Drop
- New Attack on the Church
- UN Misdeeds
- Firestorm Over the Family
- Science Gone Mad
- Fighting for APR
- Pro-Life Around the World
- Silencing Pro-Life Research
- Pro-Life on the Home Front
- Harris Attacks Vance
- Kamala’s Abortion on Demand
- Changing the Terminology
- Good News
- Victory in Nebraska
PRI in the Media
Population Control Coming: Last week, Live Action picked up an article from the PRI Insider. PRI had reported that an NGO in India is pushing for a two-child policy. Live Action built upon this by adding research on how unofficial population control has already been implemented in India in recent years. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called on Indians to have fewer children for the sake of the country’s future. On top of this, districts in India with higher fertility rates, lower literacy rates, and lower education rates are considered “sick.” India may currently be the most populous nation in the world, but it will not remain that way forever, especially if official, coercive population control policies are put in place.
“The population controllers never give up,” said PRI President Steven Mosher. “Foreign-funded NGOs have been calling for India to adopt a two-child policy for years. But this latest call is particularly nonsensical. The country’s 2020 National Family Health Survey showed that India’s Total Fertility Rate (TFR) is now below 2.0 children per woman. This is well below the 2.1 children needed to maintain a stable population.”
Deepening Depopulation
Adults with No Children: The Pew Research Center has released a new study on the experiences of U.S. adults who don’t have children. The fertility rate in the U.S. hit a historic low in 2023, with a large share of women between ages 25-44 having never given birth. On top of this, the share of U.S. adults under 50 who have no children and say they are unlikely to ever have children increased from 37% in 2018 to 47% in 2023. What is the main reason behind this decline? According to the study, 57% of adults under 50 who say they’re unlikely to ever have kids say a major reason is “they just don’t want to.” The top reason why adults over 50 didn’t have children when they were younger was that “it just didn’t happen.”
Is Kamala an Extinctionist?: Elon Musk was back in the news this week for slamming Kamala Harris as an “extinctionist.” A video resurfaced from last year of Kamala addressing how “climate anxiety” has affected the younger generation’s willingness to have children. In the video, Harris described and validated “climate anxiety” as “fear of — of the future and the unknown of whether it makes sense for you to even think about having children.” In response, Musk shared the following on X: “Shamala is an extinctionist. The natural extension of her philosophy would be a de facto holocaust for all of humanity!”
Communist China
The Coming Drop: The UN’s World Population Prospect 2024 report had some serious implications for China. The report’s predictions found that China’s population could be halved by the end of the century. The country’s population is currently ~1.4 billion, but China could be back to its 1950s level of ~700 million people by 2100. This decline is due to the decrease in marriage and childbearing in the last few decades, both massively affected by the one-child policy. The bulk of this coming population decline is predicted to occur between 2024 and 2054, with an estimated drop of ~204 million in that time frame. As we covered in last week’s PRI Insider, China’s population data and birth rate are most likely exaggerated, meaning the population decreases predicted will be even more severe.
“Chinese official statistics are always fabrications, exaggerating the good and lowballing the bad numbers is standard practice among Chinese officials,” said Mr. Mosher last week. “China’s population is overstated by at least 100 million people, which means that the aging and dying of China’s population will occur even more rapidly than many predicted. Communism always kills, sometimes it kills slowly and sometimes it kills quickly, but it always kills.”
“The Chinese Communist Party, in imposing the one-child policy on the Chinese people, has condemned China to senescence and death,” says Mr. Mosher. “China under the CCP will never be the world’s dominant superpower.”
New Attack on the Church: China’s United Work Front Department has rolled out new “Strict Governance of Religion” propaganda. A key element of this new push is that the five authorized religions in China—Protestant Christianity, Catholicism, Buddhism, Islam, and Taoism—should put Xi Jinping Thought at the center of their meetings and sermons. This new collaboration between the CCP and the United Work Front Department also implies that the control of religion by the bureaucrats of the government-controlled religious bodies has not been effective enough. Evidence of this stricter Sinicization of the Catholic Church in China occurred on July 10th, when a branch of the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association held a “Meeting to Promote the Comprehensive and Strict Governance of the Catholic Church.”
UN Misdeeds
Firestorm Over the Family: Recent UN negotiations included a “firestorm” of criticism over a single reference to “the family.” These negotiations were related to a declaration to be presented at The UN Summit on the Future conference scheduled for this September. The declaration is meant to address the needs and interests of future generations, but the addition of “the role of families as contributors to sustainable development” caused a stark division between Western countries and traditional nations. At this time, the draft document, including the second round of revisions, still includes this reference to the family.
Science Gone Mad
Fighting for APR: The pro-abortion movement would prefer that you believe women do not experience regret when undergoing an abortion. But this isn’t true. Many women regret their abortions, some as soon as the procedure has begun. That is why women are interested in and have successfully used the recently developed abortion pill reversal (APR) protocol. APR is a safe and effective method to allow women undergoing a chemical abortion to halt and reverse the procedure if they change their minds before the abortion is complete. According to Heartbeat International’s research, at least 5,000 women successfully reversed their chemical abortions in 2023 alone. However, abortion providers are determined to stop the spread of APR because it contradicts their messaging. The determination of these organizations to reduce access to APR exposes the truth that the abortion movement tries to dismiss: they are not pro-choice. Rather, they are pro-abortion. Abortion is the only option they want women to choose when faced with an unexpected pregnancy.
For more information on chemical abortions, read our Abortion Pill Fact Sheet.
For information and resources on APR, read our APR Weekly Briefing.
Pro-Life Around the World
Silencing Pro-life Research: Well-known pro-life organizations are under attack by a well-funded, pro-abortion organization. The Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF), a billion-dollar nonprofit, has just launched a project to label research from Heartbeat International and Live Action as “misinformation.” KFF’s Health Misinformation Monitor has claimed that Heartbeat International’s research on the abortion pill being reversible is false. The KFF also claimed Live Action’s “Baby Olivia” video, which has been approved to be shown in schools in the U.S., is “misinformation.” The KFF is attempting to end successful pro-life projects by following the now-global campaign to target and silence views opposed to those of the political left.
Pro-Life on the Home Front
Harris Attacks Vance: A social media account supporting Kamala Harris’s election campaign has attacked J.D. Vance and our nation’s child tax credit (CTC) system. The account shared a so-called “leaked” video of J.D. Vance from 2021 in which he promoted the CTC system. The video came from an episode of the Charlie Kirk Show, which was publicly posted on the web in 2021. The pro-Harris account claimed Vance “wants to wage war against Americans,” yet what he stated was simply a defense of the current pro-family policy. Since being signed into law in 1997, the CTC policy has been touted as a broad success and has, over the years, had support from both sides of the political divide.
Vance responded to the criticism over social media, saying, “Most Americans in both political parties support the child tax credit and lowering the tax burden for parents. It’s disturbing that the Kamala campaign is running on such an extreme anti-family agenda that they’re taking radical positions like this.”
“PRI fought hard for the Child Tax Credit when it was first proposed many years ago, and has consistently argued that it should be increased,” says Mr. Mosher. “Those who are willing to provide for the future of America in the most fundamental way–by providing its future citizens and taxpayers–should be sheltered from all taxes.”
Kamala’s Abortion on Demand: In a continuation of her pro-abortion extremism, Kamala Harris has taken up Joe Biden’s promise to sign a law creating a nationwide right to abortion on demand, if she gets a chance. Harris also continues to claim that if “[former President and Republican nominee Donald] Trump gets the chance, he will sign a national abortion ban to outlaw abortion in every state,” despite Trump and his allies maintaining that matters of pro-life legislation will be left to the states. Harris will continue to stoke pro-abortion fears to drive voters to the polls, convinced to vote based on the issue of abortion alone.
Changing the Terminology: Last year, academic Jessalyn Bohn published “When Words Fail: ‘Miscarriage,’ Referential Ambiguity, and Psychological Harm” in The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy. Bohn called for a change in the way people generally refer to miscarriage, advocating for the use of the phrase “intrauterine death.” This is a more accurate way of describing the loss of a pregnancy for grieving mothers. However, Bohn received pushback from pro-abortion individuals who fear that accurately describing the loss of unborn life in the womb will result in changing public opinion on abortion. If the humanity of an unborn baby is acknowledged in reference to miscarriage, it’s easier for the public to see the connection to the loss of life in a medical abortion.
Good News
Victory in Nebraska: Last Friday, the Nebraska Supreme Court voted 6-1 to uphold a pro-life law protecting the unborn after 12 weeks gestation. The “Let Them Grow Act” prohibits abortions after 12 weeks, though there are exceptions for children conceived in rape or incest and instances of “medical emergency.” The Act also protects minors from transgender interventions, including so-called “gender reassignment surgery.” Planned Parenthood and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Nebraska attempted to argue that the bill violated the state’s constitution, but ultimately these pro-abortion organizations failed. Nebraska’s Right to Life leaders commended this pro-life victory while reaffirming that they would continue to fight until all preborn lives are safe from abortion.
Quote of the Week
“No one can accurately predict the future resolution of the abortion battle. Much will depend on whether society can be awakened to the nefarious designs and the subtle, satanic dishonesties of the death peddlers.”
~ Fr. Paul Marx, Founder of PRI, The Death Peddlers
