Volume 25, Number 5 September-October 2015 A review and analysis of worldwide population control activity

Fetal Cannibalism Planned Parenthood Style In China they eat babies; Planned Parenthood kills them and then sells their organs. Which is worse? By Steven Mosher and Jonathan Abbamonte On the menu of some exclusive Chinese restaurants is an item that goes by the name of Spare Rib Soup. Very expensive, it is usually served only in the back rooms to known customers, who are willing to pay to premium for this delicacy. So what is Spare Rib Soup? Brace yourselves. Spare Rib Soup is actually a human soup, made from the bodies of aborted babies. It is regarded by the Chinese—at least some Chinese—as a rejuvenating potion. A kind of fountain of youth that will fix sagging wrinkles, grow back missing hair, and generally put a spring back in your step. Shutterstock

All of which is quite simply discusses the importance of not nonsense. crushing the organs so she “can get INSIDE THIS ISSUE But I thought of Spare Rib Soup it all intact” will stay with you a long Fetal Cannibalism 1 when I watched the video of Dr. time. Or the thought of her sipping President’s Page 2 Deborah Nucatola, Senior Director her cabernet sauvignon as she brags, May I Send You These Gifts? 4 of Medical Services, Planned “We’ve been very good at getting Manual Vacuum Aspirators 6 Parenthood, describing how her heart, lung, liver.” How the abortionist can manage to Tough Challenges Ahead 8 organization is harvesting and selling parts and pieces from aborted babies. keep down her lunch while casually Development Desk 9 You’ve all seen the video by now, so revealing that she did a “seventeen- From the Countries 10 I needn’t describe it in detail. If you weeker just this morning” is beyond Offensive in Latin America 11 haven’t, join the 2 million others who me. She is talking about taking the PRI to German Bishops 12 have. Prepare to be revolted. life of a child who is about 12 inches I’m sure the picture of Nucatola long, can suck his thumb, can sense calmly masticating her food as she light and can feel pain. The thought

Continued on page 5 President’s Page The Earth is Not “Sick” and Mankind is Thriving as Never Before Having carefully read through for these embarrassing lapses lies with Laudato Si, I am amazed at how them, not with him. many unsubstantiated claims and Here are some of the fictions groundless assertions it contains. related in Chapter One of Laudato Si, Many of its claims are so over- which is entitled “What is Happening the-top that they can even be to Our Common Home.” falsified by citing UN documents, The Issue of Water (paragraphs which themselves tend to magnify 27-31): environmental and other global “One particularly serious problem problems as a fundraising ploy. From is the quality of water available to a strictly scientific point of view the the poor…the quality of available Encyclical is an embarrassment. water is constantly diminishing[...] PRI Staff Before getting down to specifics, (paragraphs 29-30).” Founder: let me first make clear that I am According to the United Nation’s Fr. Paul Marx, OSB, PhD (1920-2010) President: not referring to the document’s Millennium Development Goals 2014 Steven W. Mosher frequent lapses into hyperbole. I don’t Report, over the past twenty years Executive Vice President: fault Pope Francis for his repeated “access to an improved drinking Joel Bockrath Research Analyst: references to the “environmental water source became a reality for 2.3 Jonathan Abbamonte crisis” and his reference to “the billion people.” As the MDG Report Marketing Coordinator: symptoms of sickness evident in the explains: Susannah Cavanaugh Editor: soil, in the water, in the air, and in “The target of halving the Moriah Bruno all forms of life (paragraph 2).” I am proportion of people without access Development Coordinator: a writer myself, and understand that to an improved drinking water Karen Shannon Director, PRI Latin American Office: occasional exaggeration for effect is source was achieved in 2010, five Carlos Polo part of the writer’s craft. years ahead of schedule. In 2012, Director, PRI European Office: Nor am I talking about the much 89 percent of the world’s population Carlos Beltramo Follow us on social media: ballyhooed support the encyclical had access to an improved source, gives to global warming, climate up from 76 percent in 1990. Over change, or whatever we are calling it 2.3 billion people gained access to Population Research Institute Review is published bi- monthly by: Population Research Institute these days. An extended discussion an improved source of drinking water P.O. Box 1559 / Front Royal, VA 22630 USA of the rate, direction, and cause between 1990 and 2012 (page 4).” Phone: (540) 622-5240 E-mail: [email protected] / Internet: www.pop.org of projected future changes in the Loss of Biodiversity (paras 32-42): © PRI 2015 earth’s climate would only reveal “Each year see the disappearance that there are profound differences of thousands of plant and animal that, overall, species are declining of opinion on each of these points. species which we will never know, in population and distribution Here I will only address obvious which our children will never see, and, hence, moving faster towards factual errors. because they have been lost forever. extinction (page 33). Finally, I am not criticizing the The great majority become extinct Many species have seen their Holy Father himself. The Pope for reasons related to human activity natural habitats reduced, of course, necessarily relied on environmental (paragraph 33).” and their numbers threatened. This “experts” selected by the Pontifical The MDG 2014 Report does is precisely why the Convention on Academy of Sciences to advise him not support this claim, saying only Biological Diversity set a goal of on these matters. The responsibility that “The Red List Index shows setting aside 17 percent of global

Population Research Institute Review 2 Continued on page 3 “President’s Page” Continued terrestrial areas and 10 percent of In fact, the worldwide reduction of didn’t happen then, and there is no coastal and marine areas by 2020 poverty is a great success story. “The evidence that it will happen now. as nature preserves. Since such world has reduced extreme poverty It is perhaps no coincidence that preserves now include some “14.6 by half. In 1990, almost half of the Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, who percent of the earth’s land surface population in developing regions had a part in drafting the encyclical, area and 9.7 per cent of its coastal lived on less than $1.25 a day. This is a member of the Club of Rome. marine areas (page 33)” anyone can rate dropped to 22 per cent by 2010, Herr Doctor Professor Schellnhuber see that we are close to achieving our reducing the number of people living was apparently selected for this role internationally agreed upon goal of in extreme poverty by 700 million by Archbishop Marcelo Sanchez protecting biodiversity and reducing (MDG 2014 Report, p. 4).” Sorondo, the head of the Pontifical anthropogenic species extinction in “This means that the world reached Academy of Sciences (PAS), who has this way. There is no need for panic. the MDG target—of halving the since appointed him to the Academy. Decline in the Quality of Human proportion of people living in extreme This brings me back to the Life and the Breakdown of Society poverty—five years ahead of the 2015 question of responsibility. Who but (para 43-47): deadline. While the absolute number the head of the Pontifical Academy “[…]we cannot fail to consider of people living in extreme poverty of Sciences should have ensured the effects on people’s lives of fell from 1.9 billion in 1990 to 1.2 that this encyclical was free of errors environmental deterioration[…]the billion in 2010 (page 9).” of scientific fact? Who but the head growth of the past two centuries has One can always redefine poverty of the PAS should have selected not always led to[…]an improvement upward, as we have done repeatedly experts who were committed to both in the quality of life (paragraph 43).” in the United States since the War on scientific reason and the Catholic In 1815 there were approximately Poverty began. It is no secret that this faith? In selecting Schellnhuber, 1 billion people alive on the planet. has been done for political reasons by he might as well have turned the The average lifespan was 30 years, a certain political party to ensure that manuscript over to a fundraising and the per capita income was a mere they “will always have the poor with copywriter for the Environmental $100. The life of man in nature, as them” in the voting booth. Defense Fund. Thomas Hobbes famously remarked, I could go on, but there is no Archbishop Sanchez Sorondo has was nasty, brutish and short. need to pile up cases. Suffice squandered the moral authority of Today there are 7.2 billion people to note that a dismal tone of the Papacy. living on Planet Earth, the average environmental “apocalypse now” He should resign. lifespan is 71, and the GDP per pervades the entire document, as capita, using purchasing power parity, when it breathlessly proclaims that: is over $12,000. In other words, as “Doomsday predictions can no our numbers have grown so has our longer be met with irony or disdain. well-being and prosperity. Lifespans We may well be leaving to coming have more than doubled and per generations’ debris, desolation, and capita incomes have risen over a filth[…]our contemporary lifestyle hundred times! [is] unsustainable (paragraph 161).” How can this dramatic— This reads for all the world like and historically unprecedented— the discredited Club of Rome report improvement in the quality of life be published in 1972. Later revealed so cavalierly dismissed? to be a hoax, this report predicted Global Inequality (paragraphs that the world would run out of 48-52): various “nonrenewable resources” “[The poor, the excluded, the most in the 1980s and 1990s, and that vulnerable] are the majority of the environmental, economic and planet’s population, billions of people societal collapse would follow. It (paragraph 49).”

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Population Research Institute Review 4 “Fetal Cannibalism” Continued makes me want to vomit. Apparently the United States, because of the huge the People’s Republic, we are a it stimulates her appetite. subsidies that Planned Parenthood democratic country. We elected the Federal law prohibits the receives from the American taxpayer, men to Congress who appropriated commercial trafficking of fetal tissue we are all “paying customers.” our money and gave it to abortionists for profit and carries a penalty of up According to Planned Parenthood’s like Nucatola. We elected the to 10 years in prison and a $500,000 Fiscal Year 2013-2014 annual President—Barack Obama—who fine. That’s why Nucatola is careful report, the supposedly non-profit keynotes Planned Parenthood to say that Planned Parenthood organization received a whopping fundraising events. So we are all abortionists “want to come to a $528 million. The U.S. taxpayer collectively responsible for doing number that doesn’t look something about Planned like they’re making money. Parenthood’s dirty business. If they can do a little better Because of its trafficking than break even, and do “In China, the only people responsible in baby body parts, Planned so in a way that seems for this human cannibalism are the paying Parenthood is already under reasonable, they’re happy customers themselves. But in the United States, investigation by the U.S. to do that.” because of the huge subsidies that Planned House of Representatives Nucatola skirts the law Parenthood receives from the American and in 12 states, including a second time when she taxpayer, we are all paying customers.” South Carolina, Florida, explains that Planned Tennessee, Massachusetts, Parenthood’s abortionists Kansas, Missouri, Arizona, sometimes do a manual Indiana, Ohio, Georgia, version to keep the baby’s head is the single largest contributor to Texas, and Louisiana. More states intact so it can be sold. The baby Planned Parenthood, providing some need to follow—including your state. is delivered feet first and killed in 41 percent of its total revenue. It is past time to cut off all funding the process. This is, of course, akin Planned Parenthood committed to the Planned Parenthood killing to an illegal partial-birth , 327,653 in the Fiscal Year fields. Contact your Congressman following a 2003 law passed by the 2013-2014, an estimated one-third and Senators, your governors and Congress and signed into law by of all abortions committed in the U.S. state legislators, your mayors and President Bush. that year. To put this number into your city counselors. Tell them to The fetal soup sold in China is perspective, Planned Parenthood defund Planned Parenthood once nauseating to any normal human abortionists are stopping a beating and for all. being, but are Planned Parenthood’s heart 37 times every hour, night and Now. actions any less so? day, week after week, month after And reflect on this difference: In month. China, the only people responsible And there is another reason why for this human cannibalism are the we can make no claims of moral paying customers themselves. But in superiority over China. Unlike

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5 September-October 2015 Planned Parenthood Uses Manual Vacuum Aspirators to Harvest Fetal Organs By Jonathan Abbamonte Manual (MVA) sixteen weeks gestation under the uses less suction than electronic guise of “menstrual regulation” and A second video alleging Planned vacuum aspiration (VA), perfect for “post-abortive care,” the abortion Parenthood’s gruesome selling of fetal preserving more organs intact for advocate’s code words for first body parts surfaced several weeks harvesting. It’s for this reason Gatter trimester abortion in countries where ago. And once again we find a senior refers to the MVA in the video as a abortion is illegal or largely restricted. executive of the organization, Dr. “less crunchy technique.” Planned Parenthood would stand Mary Gatter, willing to put women’s Manual vacuum aspiration devices to benefit financially from switching lives at risk in order to make more are used particularly in developing from VAs to MVAs. Electronic money for the organization and for countries because they can be used vacuum aspiration equipment is far themselves. without electricity. Since MVA more expensive than MVA devices. As Gatter explains, “I wouldn’t devices require little training to Some researchers argue MVAs can object to asking Ian, who’s our operate, they are often used by non- be done in the doctor’s office, saving surgeon who does the cases, the cost of having to invest to use an Ipas [manual in maintaining expensive vacuum aspirator] at that operating rooms. Alisa gestational age in order Goldberg, MD concludes to increase the odds that her study comparing MVA he’s going to get an intact and VA procedures by specimen.” saying as much, “Whereas “Intact specimens”, you purchasing an electric see, are worth more money. vacuum machine requires And Planned Parenthood a large initial investment, gets them by using a device the manual aspiration that regular readers of equipment is inexpensive[...] our PRI Review are all too These factors, together with familiar with: a manual the simplicity of use[…] vacuum aspirator. could increase the number Manual vacuum aspirators of physicians who offer are murderous machines used to abort physician abortion providers. Their abortion to their patients in an office babies between three and fourteen small price tag and portability allow setting.” weeks gestation. They are large, them to be widely distributed in MVA devices are not subject to unsophisticated syringes operated remote locales, often in areas with FDA approval. PRI years ago tried to by hand that work by suctioning poor sanitation and poor healthcare. have the FDA pull the MVA abortion the fetus from its mother’s womb. Population Research Institute devices off the market but the FDA The baby’s delicate body is crushed has long documented the use would not budge. In fact, they would and sliced as it is aspirated through of MVAs in developing regions. not even subject MVAs to the same a long cannula. After the abortion Unsterilized reusable MVAs have safety standards required of all other procedure, the baby parts are emptied likely contributed to the spread of medical devices on the market. into a bowl of water or vinegar and AIDS in Africa and STIs worldwide. The FDA claims the devices do not inspected to insure that all pieces are The painful MVA procedure is require a pre-market review because there and accounted for. One must often done without anesthesia such they were available prior to May 28, wonder how a “doctor” can justify as in the Marie Stopes clinic we 1976. New iterations of MVA devices abortion as he or she inspects baby documented in Kenya. MVA devices are not subject to review as long as parts floating in a pool of vinegar. have been reported to be used up to they do not deviate too far from their

Population Research Institute Review 6 original design. Even so, according abortion is illegal. When women Americans overwhelmingly to the FDA, “manufacturers are report to their doctors, hemorrhaging disapprove of Planned Parenthood’s primarily responsible for determining from the drug, the physician completes selling of fetal body parts. A recent whether changes that are made to the abortion procedure under the Rasmussen poll indicates that only their device require the submission guise of treatment for a spontaneous 25 percent of likely voters find the of” the proper forms. miscarriage. practice permissible. While the FDA has refused Ipas claims to have distributed over Planned Parenthood’s abortion to review the device for safety, a 800,000 reusable manual vacuum business is out of touch with public number of adverse reports have aspirator devices worldwide. Ipas sentiment. The most recent Gallup been filed with the federal regulatory asserts that this is enough to commit poll on late term abortion indicates organization including a report of 20 million abortions. that 64 percent of Americans believe uterine perforation and even death. As one of Ipas’s leading donors, that abortion should be illegal in The lead manufacturer of MVA Planned Parenthood Federation of the second trimester and 80 percent devices, Ipas, is not a pharmaceutical America (PPFA) stands behind Ipas’s believe it should be illegal in the third or medical device company but rather mission to promote abortion. In fact, trimester. Many Planned Parenthood an international abortion advocacy Planned Parenthood is the largest clinics provide abortions after the organization. Ipas declares on its abortion provider in the United first trimester. own website that it is dedicated to States accounting for about one-third Several weeks ago, Rep. Diane expanding “comprehensive abortion of all clinical abortions. Black (R-TN) introduced the Defund care.” The abortion Planned Parenthood Act activist organization is of 2015 which strips also actively involved in Manual vacuum aspiration (MVA) all federal funding to “work[ing] with nations’ uses less suction than electronic vacuum Planned Parenthood. The ministries of health to bill has already garnered interpret laws governing aspiration (VA), perfect for preserving 137 cosponsors. Sen. abortion in the broadest more organs intact for harvesting. It’s for James Lankford (R-OK) terms possible and to this reason Gatter refers to the MVA in has since introduced a write standards and similar bill in the Senate. guidelines for abortion the video as a “less crunchy technique.” Americans should not care accordingly to be forced to subsidize an ensure access for as many organization that sells women as possible.” fetal body parts for profit In other words, the MVA device During its fiscal year 2013-2014, and procures late term abortions. manufacturer is actively involved in Planned Parenthood committed An abortion giant like Planned pressuring independent nations into 327,653 abortions, roughly the Parenthood does not need our loosening restrictions on abortion equivalent of the population of taxpayer dollars. and in finding loopholes in the law St. Louis, Missouri. At this figure, Dr. Gatter can be seen at the end to increase access to abortion. Planned Parenthood aborts children of the video bartering for maximum Ipas also advocates for non- at a rate of 37 every hour. PPFA’s profit while settling on a price that physician procured abortions. MVA parent organization, the International doesn’t look suspicious. “Let me just abortions procured by mid-level Planned Parenthood Federation figure out what others are getting, practitioners have higher failure rates (IPPF), aborts over 1 million children and if this is in the ballpark,” Gatter and complication rates than MVAs every year worldwide. says, “if it’s still low, then we can procured by doctors. PPFA receives approximately bump it up. I want a Lamborghini.” PRI blew the whistle years ago $500 million every year in federal on Ipas’s deceptive practice of and state grants and reimbursements. distributing miscarriage-inducing Half a billion tax dollars are funding to women in South the largest abortion provider in ••• American countries where elective America every year.

7 September-October 2015 Tough Challenges Ahead for Defenders of Life

By Dr. Christopher Manion budding tyrant and the defenseless Church and the secular State would individual. still have been on a collision course That’s why the “rulers of darkness” on foundational issues of family, the support abortion—because abortion transmission of life, the right to life destroys both the baby and the of each human being, economic natural bonds of love that normally justice and especially the many issues preserve and protect the family from associated with same-sex ‘marriage.’” the “dark powers” of the secular state. In recent years federal judges Witness how supporters of abortion have overturned dozens of state effortlessly glide into a feverish laws protecting life, marriage, and defense of Planned Parenthood’s family. Today, the courts are much infant meat market operations. more abortion-and-gay-friendly than People who were once merely America’s voters are, so that’s where “supporters of ” find our enemies have concentrated their themselves suddenly championing fire. routine vivisection of live babies In fact, several foundations The prayers, goodwill, and and the sale of their organs. The dominated by homosexuals have encouragement that flow from dominoes of the “contraceptive devoted millions of dollars to lawyers the World Meeting of Families in mentality” have now become giant who attack the family. Their campaign Philadelphia are inspirational. Friends tombstones crushing millions of aims to eradicate any religious of life will need to keep those prayers innocents—but they have crushed exemptions based on opposition to flowing as we redouble our efforts and the contraceptive conscience as well. gay “marriage.” Ultimately, their goal confront the ominous attacks that Today the federal courts are the is to ruin religious business owners the Culture of Death plans to mount primary avenue of attack, and the and employees, while bankrupting against us. late Charles E. Rice, PRI’s dear friend anyone who gets in their way. As Pope Francis bluntly reminds and longtime board member, explains When the Planned Parenthood us, these attacks are led by Satan. how that came to pass. videos involving the National In the words of Saint Paul, “our Dr. Rice cites longtime Chief Abortion Federation appeared, a wrestling is not against flesh and Justice Charles Evans Hughes, who federal judge who had raised over blood; but against principalities and bluntly asserted a century ago that $200,000 for Obama’s presidential powers, against the rulers of the world “the Constitution is what the judges campaign came to Planned of this darkness, against the spirits of say it is.” Parenthood’s rescue. Judge William wickedness in the high places (Eph. That perverted principle now Orrick issued a temporary restraining 6:12).” empowers every sitting federal judge order prohibiting the release of Today, the family in America to impose his own opinion as the further videos, ironically alleging that confronts a coordinated and well- law of the land. That’s why the late the videos might cause “irreparable funded campaign that thrusts the Francis Cardinal George, O.M.I., injury” to the abortionists (he did “wickedness in high places” into the once famously predicted that his not pause to mention any “irreparable political and legal realm. successor would die in prison, and his injury” to the babies). Augustine points out that the successor would die a martyr in the If judges like Orrick make the City of Man, whose leader is Satan, public square. Soon the Church will decisions on the future of religious is “ruled by the lust of rule.” Simply no longer have any grounds to appeal liberties, we can predict an unhappy put, it hates the family. to the Constitution to protect itself outcome. Consider the recent Karl Marx had only contempt for from the state. testimony of IRS Commissioner John the family, because it constitutes the “If Obama had never been Koskinen before the Senate Judiciary greatest natural barrier between the elected,” Rice wrote, “the Catholic Committee. When asked if the IRS

Population Research Institute Review 8 “Tough Challenges” Continued Development Desk would challenge the tax-exempt status of religious institutions that opposed so-called same-sex marriage, Koskinen ominously replied no, not “at this time.” Rest assured, our time will come. And we must be ready.

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Soon-to-be Catholic priests praying before their ordination

9 September-October 2015 From the Countries Vietnam Portugal cases--the sad reality of an aging National Catholic Register— France24— The center-right society where one in four people are Because members of Vietnam’s governing coalition in the Portuguese over the age of 65. National Assembly could not come parliament has managed to See the Source: http://www. to a consensus on whether or not to win a minor pro-life victory. A japanrealm.com/japans-lonely-deaths- end the country’s two-child policy, controversial referendum in 2007 crew/ the National Assembly has decided legalized abortion in Portugal up to postpone legislation on the topic to the 10th week of pregnancy. United States until 2016. Legislation rescinding a Under new regulations, women Patheos—The FDA announced 1993 law restricting couples to two will be required to have counseling that its Obstetrics and Gynecology children was proposed in response before having an abortion. Until Devices Panel will hold an advisory to plummeting birth rates (6.8 now, abortion has been offered to committee meeting on September nationwide in the 1960s and now women free of charge in government 24th to review the safety and efficacy as low as 1.68 in Ho Chi Minh City) hospitals and licensed private clinics. of the Essure implant and procedure. and the implications of the country’s Mothers seeking abortion will also Patients who have suffered from the falling birth rate on the Vietnamese have to pay a portion of the fees, contraceptive implant are planning economy. the U.S. equivalent of $55, rather a hunger strike to ensure that it is It is in part because of the two-child than receiving a fully government removed from the market. policy that 40% of all pregnancies in subsidized procedure. After receiving the implant, many Vietnam end in abortion. It has also See the Source: Source: http://www. given rise to sex-selective abortion, france24.com/en/20150723-portuguese- women have suffered from a range which has become so commonplace in lawmakers-back-tightening-abortion- of chronic adverse side-effects, Vietnam that currently the national laws including chronic bloating, perforated male to female ratio is 120 boys for Japan organs, depression, chronic back or every 100 girls. In some provinces pelvic pain, device migration, and Japan Realm—In this rapidly aging the ratio is even more skewed: 150 country, the phenomenon of “lonely in rare cases, even death. Almost boys are born for every 100 girls. This deaths” is becoming increasingly 20,000 women who have suffered death of girls fuels the demand for sex common. “Lonely deaths,” or from Essure have come together trafficking in Asia. “kodokushi” in Japanese, occur when through the Facebook group “Essure Other problems will surely result elderly are found lying in their house Problems” to express their concerns from continued adherence to the or apartment, weeks or months after with the device. Cultural icon Erin two-child policy. The economy will having passed away. They are not Brockovich, made famous through a undoubtedly suffer as the elderly quit discovered by loved ones or friends, film about her life as a legal assistant the labor market and without a young but usually by their landlord when cohort to replace them. Government and a single mother, has been deeply rent isn’t paid, or by police when involved in making these women’s officials will struggle to allocate neighbors complain of a smell. Once voices heard. Her website features funds for pensions and health care discovered, police bury the victims over 1,000 personal stories about the of the elderly, who will likely have of lonely deaths in unmarked graves. few descendants to care for them in The deceased are usually buried harmful effects of Essure. their old age. without being claimed by a family Source: http://www.patheos.com/ See the Source: http://www. member. blogs/catholicnews/2015/07/exclusive- ncregister.com/daily-news/vietnam-to- An official who works with lonely essure-victims-plan-hunger-strike keep-enforcing-two-child-law-for-now/ death cases estimates that in ten years there will be over 100,000

Population Research Institute Review 10 Latin Americans Have Gone on the Offensive By Carlos Polo Recent reports from the news Protection (APROFA) more than Translated by Moriah Bruno agency ACIPRENSA make clear $180,000 to promote the legalization that Planned Parenthood’s illegal of . In addition Typically, pro-life groups are on the activities are not confined to the to Peru, El Salvador, and Chile, defensive, always trying to prevent United States, but that it has this misuse of IPPF funds is likely the liberalization of abortion laws spent millions of dollars on non- occurring across all of Latin America; and refuting the arguments made by governmental organizations in Latin expect to see more investigations into abortionists. With few exceptions, America. IPPF funds Latin American Planned Parenthood in the weeks to pro-life groups tend to be reactive, organizations that then turn around come. not proactive. Today things have and launch expensive pro-abortion And to whom does IPPF owe its changed. Recent videos put out by campaigns. These campaigns pretend funding? Corporations, in part. But the Center for Medical Progress, to be local initiatives, but are actually corporations that have donated which reveal Planned Parenthood’s campaigns crafted by Planned funds to Planned Parenthood have callous contempt for human life, Parenthood in New York. now publicly disowned any affiliation present an opportunity with the abortion giant. For for pro-life groups to go now, Coca Cola, Xerox, and on the offensive. The U.S. Ford have already clarified branch of the International that they are not financed Planned Parenthood by Planned Parenthood. Federation (IPPF), is Fannie Mae, Avon, Clorox, facing global rejection for Levi Strauss, Macy’s, several videos that reveal Morgan Stanley, Verizon Planned Parenthood and American Express facilities trafficking in explained that they made the organs and limbs of direct contributions to aborted babies. Planned Parenthood only Pro-lifers are putting when matching donations made by their employees, as this issue of abortion on they do with any other organization. the public and political agenda, while In Peru, ACIPRENSA provided Latin American countries are pro-abortion activists try to block irrefutable evidence proving that asking corporate donors of Planned this scandal at any price. Today, the IPPF invested $3 million between Parenthood (Starbucks, Unilever, and pro-life movement is hitting the 2013 and 2015 to NGOs that promote Tostitos) to stop funding the business pro-abortion movement where it the legalization of abortion. Since this of trafficking in human tissue. You hurts, and is holding its supporters is a blatant violation of Peruvian law, too can join in this global offensive accountable for the atrocities several congressmen have already against Planned Parenthood. Write begun investigating the use of these committed against the unborn. This to the presidents of these companies offensive against abortion began in funds to promote abortion. In El and ask them to stop funding Planned the U.S., but will become a worldwide Salvador, the Collective of Women Parenthood’s trading in the body offensive. for Local Development and Citizens parts of aborted babies. http://www. Planned Parenthood engages in Association for the Decriminalization citizengo.org/es/27342-starbucks- illegal activity around the world, and of Abortion, Ethics and pepsi-y-johnson-johnson-siguen- the recent revelations of its flagrant received $150,000 from IPPF for financiando-planned-parenthood disregard for human life in the a project to legalize abortion in El United States provide an opportunity Salvador. In Chile, between the to shine a spotlight on its illegal years of 2008 and 2014, IPPF gave ••• activities in other countries. the Chilean Association for Family

11 September-October 2015 PRI to German Bishops: Stop Prescribing the Morning After Pill! Editor’s Note: In July, PRI mailed copies of a brilliant article on the nature of the so-called “morning after pill” (MAP) to the German bishops. The article, by Dr. Rebecca Bame et al, makes it clear that MAP is not “emergency contraception,” but that it operates by causing an early-term abortion. The letter below was sent to the German bishops because they have mistakenly approved the use of MAP in Catholic hospitals, on the understanding that it only prevents conception. They are wrong. Below we print our letter to the German Bishops, along with several replies we have since received.

Dear (German) Bishop, There is a lot of false information being circulated about the operation of the so-called “Morning After Pill.” (MAP) These drugs, Levonorgestrol and Ulpristal Acetate, sold under the labels “Plan B,” “Postinor-2,” and “Ella,” are falsely described as “emergency contraceptives,” when in fact they often operate by preventing implantation. In fact, the International Medical Advisory Panel, which is an international team of experts on medical issues, has confirmed through their research that the “Morning After Pill” acts by preventing implantation, that is to say, by causing an early-term abortion. Here is the link to their study: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12346299 Our review of the medical literature regarding Levonorgestrol has revealed that this anti-impantation (abortifacient) effect is the chief mechanism by which the drugs operate when given to women immediately before ovulation. We enclose a recent scientific study by Dr. Rebecca Bame et al which is definitive in this regard.The study is in English, but we enclose a summary in German for your review. As you consider whether such abortifacient drugs ought to be used in Catholic hospitals in your diocese, we wanted you to be aware of this study. We believe that that the German Bishop’s Conference, in recommending the use of the “Morning After Pill” in some circumstances, is allowing itself to become complicit in abortion. We at the Population Research Institute stand ready to provide further information on this issue at your request. Connected in Christ,

Dear Mr. Mosher,

Dear President Mosher! Thank you for your letter of 14 July 2015 to the Secretary of the German Bishops’ Conference, Father I have received your kind letter of 14 July with the Dr. Hans Langendoerfer, and the accompanying article enclosed copy of the scientific article out-lining the actual about the mode of action of the “Morning After Pill.” operation of the so-called “Morning After Pill.” Thank Father Langendoerfer has asked that I answer you. you for sending us that letter and for your offer to provide I can assure you that your letter and the enclosed further assistance on this topic. article were read carefully. The medical ethical I would also like to ask for your support in providing this questions about the “morning after pill” are being important information to the German Bishops’ Conference, dealt with in the appropriate meetings of the German which would certainly be very interested in this topic. I am Bishop conference – in the Doctrinal Committee and sure that you have also been in contact with the Pontifical their Sun-Committee for Bioethics. Both are under the Academy for Life, so that they too may benefit from your chairmanship of cardinal Karl Lehman, who will treat expert knowledge on this topic. this matter with all seriousness. I wish you and the Population Research Institute all the I thank you again for your suggestion and remain, best and remain with heartfelt wishes and God’s blessings, Sincerely yours,

Archbishop Dr. Nikola Eterovic Dr. Ilka Marina Kuhr Apostolic Nuncio German Bishops’ Conference

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