Volume 24, Number 3 May-June 2014 A review and analysis of worldwide population control activity

“Better to be a Criminal in China than a Pregnant Mother” Those who violate the one-child policy are more harshly punished than those who violate other laws Steven W. Mosher

he Chinese Ministry of State Security must have T been asleep on the job. The email that appeared in my inbox read: “It is better to be a criminal in China than a pregnant mother.” Now, I knew that women who get pregnant outside the state plan are often browbeaten or bullied into abortions and sterilizations. But as my mysterious correspon- dent noted, there are a whole range of other punishments for violators of the family planning policies of the PRC, who are treated worse than criminals. First, she said, if you’ve had a child outside the plan, very few people will hire you. Most “work units” (i.e., businesses) require ap- Pregnant women in China are locked up indefinitely until their families can pay a huge fine or their child is aborted. INSIDE THIS ISSUE plicants to submit their “Family Planning they cannot be tortured or subjected to “Better to be a Criminal in China than Certificates” to prove that they have not corporal punishment, and they have the a Pregnant Mother” 1 had an “illegal” child. legal right to file suit if their rights have President’s Page 2 Even criminals—burglars, rapists, been violated. Another U.N. Committee 3 and the like—are allowed to apply for Those who violate the one-child May I Offer You This Gift? 4 jobs after they have been released from policy are stripped of their dignity as Development Desk 5 prison. But the parent of an “illegal” human beings and enjoy no rights. They Humanae Vitae 6 child without a “Family Planning Cer- can be illegally detained for an indefinite “You Must Abort!” 7-10 tificate” is not even allowed to apply! period of time by the Family Planning From the Countries 11 Second, even criminals enjoy certain Bureau. They can be forcibly aborted PRI in the News 12 basic human rights, as laid out by Article or forcibly sterilized. And, if they try to Aborto Cero 15 37 of the PRC Constitution. They can- take legal action, they will find out that Global Monitor 16 not be detained without probable cause,

Continued on page 5 The One-Child Policy has Destroyed Another U.N. Committee Runs Amuck The “Committee on Torture” Considers Catholic Teaching to Be “Torture” the Chinese Family By Carlos Beltramo and Steven Mosher More and more Chinese, denied children, are elieve it or not, the 10-member groups that maintain that the position of Collins, has long served as a member of rejecting family life altogether UN Committee Against Torture the Catholic Church on contraception and this commission. Steven W. Mosher B spent two days, May 5-6, 2014, abortion constitutes torture. Another example is the report sub- It wasn’t so long ago that the ideal population of elderly, living alone or as attacking the Catholic Church and its The chairman of the Committee on mitted by the Center for Constitutional Chinese family was large, consisting of couples. teachings. Torture, Claudio Grossman, has a long Rights (CCR) on behalf of the Survivors multiple generations, and sometimes Although the report, written by the It’s not as if this is any surprise. Last history of abortion and population control Network of those Abused by Priests multiple families, living together. In fact, population control enforcers themselves, January, the chairwoman of another UN activism. In 1994 he participated in a con- (SNAP). author Lao She entitled his bestselling doesn’t blame these trends on the Party- committee, the Committee on the Rights ference that examined possible strategies And, finally, there is this from the novel about life in Beijing under Japanese State’s policies, they are clearly to blame of the Child, “demanded” that the Holy for ensuring that reproductive rights are Center for Reproductive Rights: rule, Four Generations Under One Roof. in every case. Take the tens of millions of See change Catholic doctrine to accept respected in practice at the local, national, “Urge the Holy See to review its posi- But that was before the one-child unmarried young workers, for instance, gay marriage, abortion, contraception, and international levels. (Gilbert, Lauren, tion on abortion in order to permit abor- policy decimated Chinese families, dis- who range in age from their mid-teens to etc., because the current position of Ann Shalleck, and Claudio Grossman. tion for women and girls, including when couraging the young from marrying and their late twenties. the Church supposedly violates the “Conference on the Interventional Pro- their lives and physical or mental health having children, aborting and sterilizing The report blames the young for delay- human rights of children. The Church tection of Reproductive Rights: Preface.” are at risk, when there is a non-viable hundreds of millions of expectant moth- ing marriage to pursue career goals, save PRI Staff was also roundly attacked for “allowing” American University Law Review 44, no. fetus, when they are the victims of sexual up for down payments on cars or houses, Founder: priests to abuse children, ignoring the 4 (April 1995): 963-967.) violence, or any other circumstance in ers, and leaving the elderly bereft of the Fr. Paul Marx, OSB, PhD (1920-2010) fulfill lifestyle choices, or wait to find the Holy See’s significant steps to end these Such are the ideologues who are trying which they experience severe physical children and grandchildren who would President: Steven W. Mosher have loved and supported them in old right mate. It ignores the primary reason crimes. Indeed, at the or mental pain or why young people are waiting to marry: Executive Vice President: time both Fr. Lombardi suffering. age. Joel Bockrath “The chairman of the Committee on Torture... early marriage is against the law. The and Msgr. Tomasi, who “Urge the Holy The upheaval caused by the Party- Media Coordinator: rules state that men can’t marry until they Anne Roback Morse serve in the Mission See to refrain from State’s intervention into the private has a long history of abortion and population are in their mid-to-late twenties, while Editor: of the Holy See to the negatively interfer- lives of its citizens is reflected in a new Matthew Camp women can’t marry until they reach the UN’s Human Rights control activism.” ing publicly or pri- report from China’s National Health and Development Coordinator: age of 23 to 25. Steven Wood Commission, noted that vately in women’s Family Planning Commission (NHFPC), Director, PRI Latin American Office: And don’t forget that, because of the the accusations not only exaggerate the to influence the Committee on Torture to and legislator’s decisions concerning the bureau charged with enforcing the Carlos Polo selective abortion and infanticide of tens Director, PRI European Office: problem, they ignore the numerous ac- find that the Holy See is guilty of “torture.” access to contraception and to support one-child policy. Not surprisingly, the of millions of girls, there are an equal Carlos Beltramo tions already taken by the Holy See to Like the Committee on the Rights of the states as they attempt to align their poli- report shows that family size is shrinking number of young men who will never Population Research Institute Review is published correct any abuses. Child, they are focusing on sexual abuse by cies on women’s reproductive rights with rapidly, from 5.3 people at the time of the monthly by: Population Research Institute marry, since the girls they would have P.O. Box 1559 / Front Royal, VA 22630 USA Now the same thing is happening priests (old news) and Catholic doctrine in their obligations under the Convention Communist Revolution to only around Phone: (540) 622-5240 married have been killed. E-mail: [email protected] / Internet: www.pop.org again, this time under the auspices of the areas of abortion, contraception, and against Torture.” three today. The constant barrage of anti-people © PRI 2014 another committee of the Human Rights “gay marriage.” Clearly, such groups are virulently The primary driver of this decline is, propaganda has also had an anti-natal Commission. The Committee Against For instance, among the “Shadow opposed to the teachings and practices of course, the one-child policy, which effect. When they are finally allowed to is again a direct consequence of the Torture is criticizing the Holy See’s initial Reports” available we find one by the so- of the Catholic Church relating to the allows urban couples only one child and marry, many young couples choose to Party-State’s policies of restricting the report under the “Convention against called Child Rights International Network issues of life, abortion, sexuality, sexual rural couples two. This trend has been delay having their only child, or decide number of babies born. True to form, the Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or (CRIN) called “Sexual Abuse of Children orientation, marriage, family, bioethics, accelerated as the young flee to the cities to opt out of the child-raising altogether. report discusses the fact that millions of Degrading Treatment or Punishment.” by Catholic Clerics as a Form of Torture or or euthanasia. Some members of the in search of economic opportunity, leav- The number of married couples with young Chinese now work in cities far The problem, according to the “Solidarity Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment Committee against Torture are as well, ing villages peopled by the very old and children has, according to the report, from home, or choose to live in their own Center for Law and Justice”, is that the and Punishment.” The report accuses the and are unable to impartially review the the very young. declined “significantly”, while the number apartments rather than with their par- Committee against Torture relies upon Church of transferring priests who were Holy See’s report. There are now tens of millions of of dingke families, (a Chinese translitera- ents. It blames the epidemic of loneliness information that it receives from the accused of abuses, a policy which was While these groups and individuals unmarried young workers living in and tion of DINK, or which stands for families among the elderly on the selfish young, UN Office of the High Commissioner for eliminated over a decade ago. They de- fabricate accusations against the Catho- around the cities, along with large num- with “dual income, no kids”), has been castigating them for not taking the time Human Rights (“OHCHR”) and various mand that representatives of civil society lic Church and stretch the meaning of bers of couples who have delayed having on the rise. to visit their elderly parents. anti-Catholic NGOs. be allowed to participate in the Commis- “torture” to absurd dimensions, real children or decided to remain childless. Finally, there is the rapid and ongoing But wait a minute. When you only al- What NGOs? The Center for Repro- sion the Vatican has set up to address this people continue to suffer real torture. Then there is China’s huge and growing aging of the Chinese population, which low couples to have one, or at most two, ductive Rights, to name just one. And the kind of crime, ignoring the fact that the Continued on page 14 CRR, as it is called, is at the forefront of leading activist against sexual abuse, Marie Continued on page 11

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Population Research Institute Review 4 5 May-June 2014 Why We Need to Teach Humanae Vitae Pope Paul VI’s Encyclical on Life and the Family By Dr. Christopher Manion YOU

In coming months, the Church will focus on the Magisterium’s timeless teaching on human life, marriage, and MUST the family. This coming July 25th Humanae Vitae, the beautiful encyclical written by Pope Paul VI in 1968, will celebrate the 46th ABORT! anniversary of its promulgation. China’s one-child policy in pictures The world should join in: Humanae By Steven Mosher and Anne Roback Morse Vitae is a great gift to all humanity that explains what it means fully to be a mem- ber of the human family. In 1968, Pope Paul VI knew that the world was in thrall to the “sexual revo- lution,” propelled by the contraceptive mentality that slammed the door on life and turned to the Pill for an easy exit from responsibility and maturity. Rampant abortion, divorce, disease, and cultural decline followed – as Pope Paul VI predicted. In reaffirming the long-standing moral teaching of the Church and the Natural Law, Pope Paul VI knew that he was chal- lenging the leaders of the Dictatorship of Relativism worldwide. Yet he clearly foresaw the conse- quences of society’s rejection of the Gospel of Life. Not only did he warn how women would become mere sex objects, and how the family itself would come under fire and parents to join in his valiant defense the Cardinal explained, “We’ve grown from the secular elites, he predicted the of life, the family, and yes, even civiliza- hoarse saying this is not about contra- day when governments would regulate tion itself. But his pleas were ignored not ception, this is about religious freedom.” marriage, sex, and childbirth. only by the secular elite and the general But why would the Church abandon Perhaps Pope Francis had those predic- public, but by many of his own bishops the moral teaching and appeal to a legal tions in mind when he not only scheduled as well. principle, when the courts have been Pope Paul VI’s Beatification as a hero Two years ago, Timothy Cardinal increasingly hostile to religious freedom? of life this coming October, but also Dolan, Archbishop of New York and Pres- The Cardinal’s response is blunt: designated the family as the focus of the ident of the U.S. Conference of Catholic leaders of the Church have not been historic synods of bishops to be held in Bishops, made a remarkable confession teaching moral doctrine “since the mid Rome this year and next. to the Wall Street Journal. and late 60s,” he said. “We have gotten In Humanae Vitae, Pope Paul VI liter- When confronting the Obama ad- Humanae Vitae, continued on page 13 ally pleads with bishops, priests, teachers, ministration’s contraception mandate,

Population Research Institute Review 6 Photo by Vladimir Grigorev from Dreamstime.com Right- Translation: “Those of you who don’t abort or get t is hard for persons in democratic societies to grasp how China’s party-state can control the fertility of China’s millions. The effort starts with a barrage of anti-child propaganda in the sterilized, and are schools and workplaces, and then moves to open intimidation in banners and slogans posted happy to have I excess births and in public places. Here are some pictures of the kind of public threats the authorities make against pay fines. . . [image those women who may be pregnant with “illegal” children. unclear].”

Left- Translation: “If it should be aborted and is not aborted, your Above- Translation: “Call back those who are located far away, dig out those who house will be are hidden, Those who are pregnant outside the policy absolutely must have labor destroyed and induced. Those who should be sterilized absolutely must be dragged down.” your cow will be taken.”

Right- Translation: “If you should get sterilized and you don’t, you will be detained and prosecuted. If you should abort and do not abort, your house will be torn Above- Translation: “Even if you bleed down and your Above- Translation: “If you are supposed to wear an enough to make a river, you must not give cattle will be led IUD but don’t, or are supposed to have your tubes birth to an extra child!” (Hunan Province) away.” tied but don’t, you will be arrested on sight!”

May-June 2014 This kind of in-your-face propaganda, From The Countries combined with strong-arm tactics on those who hold-out, brings most women to heel. To learn more about China’s relentless war on popu- Armenia discussion covered several other topics, families with 3 or more children have lation, read Steve Mosher’s book- A Mother’s Ordeal. Tert.am – Armenia’s Ministry of including sex-selective abortion. While faced a 19% drop in income since 2007. Then there are group pressure tactics, A Mother’s Ordeal is the gripping tale of Chi An, a Healthcare is considering introducing a there was evident disagreement as to See the Source: http://www.mercatornet. Chinese woman who experienced firsthand China’s measure to ban fetal gender determina- whether or not British abortion law bans com/family_edge/view/14093 used in Liaoning province in northeastern brutal one-child policy, both as an enforcer and as a tion until the 30th week of pregnancy. sex-selective abortions, all peers who victim. Steven Mosher helped Chi An win asylum in The measure is designed to halt the spoke on the topic condemned gendercide Continued on page 16 China and elsewhere. In these provinces, the United States when she rebelled against the Chi- practice of sex-selective abortion, since strongly. The debate concluded with a nese government’s attempt to force her to abort her Armenians have a cultural preference for response from Earl Howe of the Depart- U.N. Committee, from page 3 second births are allowed only if there no second child. boys over girls. ment of Health. Where is their outrage against the The director of the UNFPA in Ar- The 50-minute debate raised questions cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment illegal births. If even one illegal child is menia, Gavik Hayrapetyan, said that about the status of the unborn in Parlia- of tens of thousands of Christians who the sex ratio between male and female ment, where such discussions are few and are suffering around the world in coun- born, no second births are allowed, and infants at birth was 114:100 in 2012. The far between. Britain has had virtual abor- tries like China and Iran? Where is their normal ratio of males to females at birth tion-on-demand since the passage of the concern over the killing, kidnapping, or women carrying second children are aborted. is 105:100; rates much higher or lower Abortion Act in 1967. The four grounds forced conversion of Christians in places than this are not found naturally and are on which abortion is allowed are always like North Korea, Pakistan, and Nigeria? Steven Mosher, who lived in China for usually the result of targeted abortions. loosely interpreted and sometimes—as the How can any reasonable person sup- http://www.tert.am/en/ investigation showed—totally ignored. port the actions of the Committee on several years and witnessed forced abortions news/2014/05/20/project/?sw Abortion activists make much of the Torture against the one institution- the relationship between a patient and her Catholic Church- that more than any commented, “It is hard to imagine the intense # # # doctor. In the UK abortion business, other over the centuries has helped to however, as the presigned consent forms eliminate, or greatly reduce, slavery, hostility, even hysteria, that these group pres- United Kingdom show, there is no relationship. human trafficking, prostitution, and violence by teaching us that all human sure tactics would generate in a small, tightly UK Doctors “Presigning” # # # beings have an innate dignity and worth? Abortion Consent Forms The Committee on Torture has knit rural community towards anyone who In February 2012, a government com- fallen into the hands of those who are Spain mission in the United Kingdom discov- so blinded by their anti-people ideology threatened to break the rules.” To order your copy call PRI toll free at (888) 774-1531 ered 67 English doctors in 14 hospitals (Mercator.net) A report from the pro- and anti-Catholic bigotry that they no or order online from either PRI at: pop.org/store, or from pre-signing the official forms required for family Institute of Family Policies (IPFE) longer understand that all human rights On the streets or in the workplace, on the Amazon. women in Great Britain to undergo an asserts that Spanish family life is in crisis, are based on the first freedom: freedom abortion. The British House of Lords re- and blames a collapse in the number of of conscience. television and in the newspapers, the Chinese The Population Research Institute is a non-profit cently took note of this flagrant violation marriages, economic crisis, and an epi- By attacking the Catholic Church, research group whose goals are to expose the myth of the law. On April 3, Baroness Knight demic of broken marriages as reasons for the progenitor of freedom of conscience, people are bombarded with anti-people propa- of overpopulation, to expose human rights abuses of Collingtree and several other peers the collapse of the Spanish family. they are undercutting the very ground committed in population control programs, and to asked the British Government, which There are 51,997 fewer marriages in that they should be standing on. ganda. Day after day this softening up process make the case that people are the world’s greatest has left corrective action in the hands Spain today than there were in 1990, If this is the best that the Commit- resource. Our growing, global network of pro-life of a medical professionals association, to despite the fact that Spain has a higher tee on Torture can do, it ought to be continues, so that when the midnight knock groups spans over 30 countries. prosecute this violation. population now. The total fertility rate in disbanded. The debate included peers from all Spain is shockingly low; the total fertility on the door comes, many pregnant mothers three major political parties with widely of 1.32 children per woman is among the # # # differing opinions on abortion. The worst in Europe. Spanish economic de- and their husbands do not even try to fight cline has only exacerbated this trend, and back. 11 May-June 2014 Background picture of Shanghai from Wikimeida Commons. Humanae Vitae, from page 6 PRI in the News gun-shy . . . in speaking with any amount of cogency on chastity and sexual Dr. Christopher Manion morality.” “The flashpoint was Humanae Vitae,” Cardinal Dolan continued. “It brought PRI exposes China’s one- But the early returns suggest the re- See the Source: http://www.frcblog. such a tsunami of dissent, departure, disapproval of the church, that I think most child policy, in pictures laxation of the one-child limit may not com/2014/04/chinese-woman-speaks-out-it- of us—and I’m using the first-person plural intentionally, including myself—kind produce the baby boom that many expect. better-be-criminal-china-pregnant-mother/ of subconsciously said, ‘Whoa. We’d better never talk about that, because it’s (World Net Daily) “The Population … just too hot to handle.’” Our bishops had “laryngitis,” he said. Research Institute, an organization “Barriers to childbearing in China in- # # # Nonetheless, Cardinal Dolan admitted that “he sees a hunger, especially dedicated to showing the planet is not clude high costs of housing, education and among young adults,” for Humanae Vitae. Furthermore, he said that the youth threatened by the world’s population, has care for children; 35 years of social mes- PRI calls on bishops are now demanding that the Church speak authoritatively on issues of sexuality. posted a series of images online that dem- saging about how “one child is best”; and to stop pro-abortion “They will be quick to say, ‘By the way, we want you to know that we might not onstrate how China controls the number China’s many rules about childbearing that politicians from receiving be able to obey it... But we want to hear it. And in justice, you as our pastors of children born. are enforced — sometimes ruthlessly — by Communion need to tell us, and you need to challenge us!’” It begins with “anti-child propaganda” its massive family planning bureaucracy.” How curious. Our young people want to hear it the truths of Humanae Vitae, in schools and workplaces, “then moves to See the Source: http://www.washington- (Lifesitenews.com) “At the first annual but many of our bishops desperately avoid addressing the morality of contracep- open intimidation in banners and slogans times.com/news/2014/apr/20/10-million- Rome Life Forum in Vatican City today, tion – even when opposing the “Contraceptive Mandate”! Christopher Manion: Christopher Manion posted in public places,” the organization new-babies-chinas-hope-for-boom-likely- fifty-two pro-life leaders from sixteen na- The same “laryngitis” afflicts their opposition to homosexual “marriage.” is Director of PRI’s Humanae Vitae project. He says. /?page=all tions called on the bishops of the Catholic Instead of taking the opportunity to highlight the Church’s moral teachings on earned a Ph.D. in government from Notre Dame The communist government threatens Church to deny Holy Communion to pro- the immorality of homosexual acts, they avoid it like the plague – as Cardinal University, and has taught in departments of women who have “illegal” children with # # # abortion politicians in a spirit of love and Dolan candidly admits, albeit with a sigh. Politics, Religion, and International Relations the demolition of their homes and the mercy. As a result, in confronting both of these moral challenges, the bishops have at Boston University, the Catholic University of confiscation of their assets. Pregnant women in The leaders signed a declaration noting thrown themselves on the mercy of Caesar’s secular courts. America, and Christendom College. For many The sign in the image above is trans- China treated worse than that it is out of concern, and indeed love, Even there, they do not demand that the courts acknowledge the Declaration’s years he was the staff director of the Senate lated by PRI: “If you should get sterilized criminals for those same politicians that the pro-life “Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God,” the foundation of all of our freedoms. Such Foreign Relations Subcommittee on the Western and you don’t, you will be detained and leaders ask for this wake-up call to invite an argument would be clear, forceful, and final, regardless of what the Supreme Hemisphere, chaired by the late Senator Jesse prosecuted. If you should abort and do not (Family Research Council) “Steven pro-abortion politicians back to authentic Court’ political majority might decide. After all, Holy Mother Church can never Helms (R-N.C.). abort, your house will be torn down and Mosher from the Population Research faith.” abdicate to any secular court the authority to define morality. More importantly, For 10 years, Christopher Manion was a your cattle will be led away.” Institute recently received this anonymous The Rome Life Forum called upon Cardinal Dolan is right. The world hungers for the truths of Humanae Vitae. weekly columnist and contributing editor for The See the Source: http://mobile. letter from a grieving mother in China who Catholic bishops to uphold Canon 915 of Let us pray that, in this historic year, our bishops will hearken to the call of Wanderer newspaper. He has been a contribut- wnd.com/2014/04/china-threat- said, “It is better to be a criminal in China the Catholic Church’s Code of Canon Law, Our Lord: “Feed my sheep!” ing editor and music critic for Saturday Review ens-women-who-have-illegal- than a pregnant mother.” which states that men and women “obsti- and High Fidelity magazines, and his op-eds and children/#3xCtYoqBugyR3bOy.99 … nately persevering in manifest grave sin are Quotes by Cardinal Dolan from: The Free book reviews have appeared in The Wall Street Unlike Chinese criminals, illegally preg- not to be admitted to Holy Communion.” Matching Gifts Library. S.v. Cardinal Dolan says church failed Journal, National Review, The Journal of Economic # # # nant women are forced to pay for their own Carlos Polo, Director of PRI’s Latin to teach against contraception..” Retrieved Jun Development, the National Catholic Register, and imprisonment, forbidden to communicate American Office, was among the signers of This Gift to PRI was matched 06 2014 from http://www.thefreelibrary.com/ Western Horseman. PRI president discusses with their family, and forbidden from hiring the declaration. Polo declared, “This is an dollar for dollar, doubling the Cardinal+Dolan+says+church+failed+to+ He serves on the board of the American China “easing” its one- an attorney. act of real Christian charity for some people donation: teach+against+contraception.-a0290292213 Foreign Policy Council, and was a founding … who have misunderstood Catholic teaching. • A $5,000 gift from De Forest, Fideicomisario (Trustee) of Universidad Fran- child policy “It is a tragedy that pregnant women If you eliminate the consciousness of sin, in- WI, was matched by Motorolla. Editor’s Note: Dr. Chris Manion is cisco Marroquin in Guatemala. He is a Knight (Washington Times) “It was announced whose only “crime” is wanting to keep cluding very grave sins, you are eliminating Many companies have similar the Director of PRI’s Humanae Vitae of Magistral Grace in the Sovereign Military with great fanfare as a momentous shift in their children are treated so inhumanely the consciousness of the presence of God. programs, for both workers and project and is available to speak to your Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, of China’s 35-year-old population control in China. If a woman is too poor to pay a Both God and sin illuminate each other. To retirees. parish, school, or organization on this Rhodes, and of Malta. He and his family reside policy: The long-awaited “adjustment” in fine for having more than one child, she is those who fight for Life and witnesses the Does yours? Check online at: or other related life topics. Call PRI at in the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia. the country’s one-child policy has raised subjected to cruel treatment that destroys tragedy of each and every abortion, the loss (888) 774-1531 for details or to set up # # # hopes that 10 million “extra” babies will the life of both the mother and her child. of the sense of sin- the eclipse of the pres- www.pop.org/donate a speaking engagement. be born in the next five years. Even criminals have more rights in China PRI in the News, continued on page 14 than pregnant women.”

Population Research Institute Review 12 13 May-June 2014 Aborto Cero: Ground Zero in the Abortion Wars President’s Page, from page 2 Carlos Polo, Director of PRI in Latin America, is among children, you are going to have a problem A quarter of all elderly lived below the compared to 430 million today, because the most influential Spanish-speaking Pro-Lifers with elder neglect. A certain amount is poverty line. In a survey released by the of the trends toward smaller families. That By PRI Staff simply baked into the policy. NHFPC, 80 percent of Chinese house- could mean more demand for urban hous- For thousands of years, elderly Chi- holds say they are worried about support- ing units in the decades to come. Aborto Cero (“Abortion Zero”) is the despite the lack of attention paid to it by Bishop of San Sebastian, Ignacio Ar- nese had lived with their children ing their elderly relatives. For everyone else, the report is likely to title of the most important pro-life book the mainstream media, and has reached suaga the Chairman of the civic organi- and grandchildren, but that is rapidly Responding to the report on social me- stoke concern. It shows anxieties about the ever published in the Spanish-speaking dimensions that make it simply impos- zation, Hazteoir.org, and María San Gil changing too, as young people leave dia, Chinese web users expressed concerns expense of caring for children and parents world. It brings together 22 of the most sible to ignore. Its members are young, and Esperanza Oña, the leaders of the their hometowns for education and about the future of Chinese families and weighing on Chinese families; that, in well-known and influential personalities energetic, and determined to effect the “Partido Popular” (Popular Party). employment opportunities. According what it means for the country’s economic turn, is likely to reduce their propensity of the pro-life movement, including our political process in a positive way. The book has stirred opposition as to the report, 90 percent of China’s and social development. Zhi Xiefei, a pro- to spend, just as the Chinese economy own Carlos Polo. It includes experts in The March for Life in USA, La Manif well. Recently, several pro-life activists elderly live at home instead of assisted fessor at Nanjing Information Technology becomes increasingly reliant on a burgeon- the fields of science, law, theology and, in Pour Tous in France, the March for the were physically attacked while they were living facilities. But their children and University in wealthy Jiangsu province, ing consumer culture to bolster its growth. Carlos’ case, political action, all offering Family in Spain, and the March for Life promoting the book in a University of grandchildren often choose not to live wrote that China “would not be able to For Chinese policymakers, this may be the their own impassioned critiques of the Lima 2014 are each examples of how Madrid seminar. The pro-life politicians with them, or cannot live with them. achieve sustainable growth” based on wake-up call they need to continue to re- tragedy of abortion. hundreds of thousands of people are tak- who contributed articles are being ham- The problem is particularly acute in rural these demographic trends. Many blamed form the country’s much-maligned family The book has been a phenomenal hit ing to the streets in a dozen countries to mered by self-styled feminists. areas: Millions of young farmhands have China’s longstanding family planning planning policy. It may get increasingly rare in Spain, where the ongoing debate over express their support of the pro-life and The controversy has led the pub- left for factories and construction sites, policy, which restricts millions of urban for four Chinese generations to live in one the defense of the unborn’s right to life pro-family movement. As Carlos remarks, lisher, Stella Maris, to place thousands while rural social security and healthcare families to only one child per couple. home. But neither need there be so many has become a key political issue. “The most dynamic social movement in of billboards and posters on city streets resources are comparatively sparse, leav- Despite a major reform to the policy in De- families of one. Carlos’ article is entitled “The re- the world today is the pro-life movement. in Spain. The billboards show the cover ing many elderly to fend for themselves cember 2013 that allowed certain urban surgence of a pro-life conscience in It crosses borders and continents, bring- of the book with a banner across it say- in squalid conditions. couples to have two children, bureaucratic the world.” It examines how, across the ing together people of pro-life sentiments ing, “The book that many do not want A nascent social security safety net red tape remains thick, and the cost of globe, a citizen-driven movement for the from around the world.” you to read.” is being built in rural areas, but is not raising children may prove prohibitive to respect of life from conception to natu- Other contributors to Aborto Cero yet particularly sturdy. According to the some couples. ral death has taken off. It has grown up include Mgsr. José Ignacio Munilla the # # # report, over 40 percent of senior citizens To be sure, there is one bright spot in above the age of 80 live alone. The report the report, at least for enterprising real cites another study that shows 37.5 mil- estate developers with an eye on the long # # # lion elderly Chinese citizens lacked the term. The report projects that China will ability to care for themselves in 2013. have 500 million households in 2040,

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ence of God- is the only way to explain how someone could perform an abortion or conspire to kill an innocent baby. This is not intended to be a punishment for pro-abortion people, but rather a call back to faith and reason. This is a way of calling them back to the Love and Life of God.”

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14 15 Population Research Institute Review May-JuneMay-June 2014 2014 Global Monitor these deaths are preventable. Lead to include estimated sex trade and drug author Joy Lawn argued that “over trafficking revenues in future calculations World 70 percent of newborn deaths are for the year 2015, according to The Local, (The Telegraph) Oxford economist preventable with currently available “in a move expected to boost its economic Ian Goldin warns that 70 percent of techniques.” The studies claim that results.” the world’s population, specifically in many steps to reduce infant mortality, See the Source: http://www.thelocal. Western and emerging countries, is liv- such as “kangaroo care” [skin-to-skin it/20140528/italys-birth-rate-hits-record- ing in areas facing looming population contact between a newborn and a low declines. Professor Goldin cites grow- caregiver], neonatal resuscitation, and ing urbanization and levels of women’s breastfeeding, can be implemented at # # # education as a factor, noting that as the rate of $1.15 per person per year. the costs of having children increase A number of groups – the World Ukraine in urbanized societies, children are Health Organization (WHO), the viewed by couples as a burden rather UN Children’s Fund, the Bill and (FiveThirtyEight.com) - Like many than an asset. Melinda Gates Foundation, and Save of its European counterparts, Ukraine is Goldin warns that this birth dearth the Children – have endorsed these shedding population at a frightening rate. potentially has massive negative re- initiatives as “the clearest picture to Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in percussions for the world economy. date of a newborn’s chance of survival 1990, the population has declined by 6.3 “More people means more creativity, and the steps that must be taken to million people to 45.6 million in 2012, more geniuses. More and more people end preventable human deaths.” One this according to Ukrainian government means more and more extraordinary hopes that these groups will prove figures. This downward trend shows no things for the planet. When we ask if as active in preventing the deaths of signs of slowing: the United Nations the planet is too full we are question- newborns as they have been in forcing predicts that, according to its most likely ing whether people in the future have contraceptive pills and injections on projection, Ukraine’s population will fall a right to exist. And I am not sure their mothers. to only 34 million by 2050. anyone would say that about their own See the Source: http://allafrica.com/ Several factors are driving Ukraine’s grandchildren.” stories/201405200001.html?viewall=1 depopulation, chief among them low See the Source: http://www.telegraph. birthrates, high mortality, emigration, co.uk/culture/hay-festival/10853567/ # # # and tensions with Russia. The impact of World-needs-more-people-to-stop-popu- low birthrates are heightened in Ukraine lation-crash.html because medical care is less advanced and From the Countries, from page 11 # # # life expectancy is shorter than in many Italy other developed countries such as Japan. (The Local) According to The National One is tempted to say that, if the Africa Institute for Statistics (Istat), Italy’s main Ukrainians don’t start having children, supplier of official statistical information, they might as well simply hand over their (Allafrica.com) – The British medi- the number of Italian births has dropped country to Russia, since they obviously cal journal The Lancet has published dramatically in recent years. 515,000 don’t care enough to populate it. a series of papers demanding unified children were born in 2013 – 64,000 See the Source: http://fivethirtyeight. international action to reduce the high fewer births than in 2008. Italy also has comfeatures/ukraines-other-big-challenge- infant mortality rate in Africa. the second-oldest population in Europe – is-a-demographic-one/ 9 of the 10 highest infant mortality there are 151.4 people over the age of 65 rates in the world are found in Africa. for every 100 people under 15 years of age. # # # The country with the highest rate is The Italian economy contracted in Sierra Leone, which has 49.5 deaths the first quarter and Italian GDP (gross for every 1000 live births. Many of domestic product) is projected to grow by less than 1% in 2014. Istat is planning

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