Review How China Bought the Biden Family
Even if Biden wakes up to CCP’s threat to America, he’s in too deep to escape
BY STEVEN W. MOSHER
n the classic movie The Manchu- Irian Candidate, an American prisoner of war is brainwashed by the Chinese Communist Party into becoming an unwitting assassin of an anti-communist presidential candidate. While the CCP is a master at brainwashing, and is certainly not averse to assassinations, it has long followed a simpler script where American politicians are concerned. Yestock/Getty Images. The preferred ploy is for Party operatives to offer a politico’s im- nizing a bribe for what it was — sent Now “Pop” says that he knows mediate family members sweetheart the CCP operative packing. The oth- nothing — zip, zilch, nada — about business deals. The expectation is er candidate’s son accepted a $1.5 bil- his son’s business dealings in China that the paterfamilias will then toe lion “investment.” Then Hunter Biden and elsewhere. Son Hunter, on the Beijing’s line — or else. went back to China at least five times other hand, complains in an email Both 2020 presidential candidates for more. extracted from his defunct laptop have been offered such barely dis- Nobody pays useless money to a that he has to give half of his earnings guised bribes. One candidate’s son- drug addict. The intended recipient to “Pop.” in-law was offered a half-billion-dol- of this largesse was obviously “Pop” Dead computers don’t lie. lar “investment” into his family’s real Joe Biden. estate firm. Jared Kushner — recog- (continued on page 5)
2 Which Way Forward? 8 Beware the Controllers 3 All Thanks to You 9 Pandemonium, Part 2 4 Jesus for Our Times 11 PRI in the News 6 Vatican on Vaccines 12 From the Countries INSIDE
JAnuary / February 2021 1 JANUARY / FEBRUARY 2021 VOL. 31, NO. 1 One of Two Divergent Paths: Review What’s Next for Pro-Life The Population Research by Steven W. Mosher Institute Review is published bimonthly by:
Population Research y the time you read this, the U.S. Refund the World Health Organiza- Institute Bpresidential election will have been tion, another UN agency that relent- 109 East Main St. resolved in favor of President Donald lessly pushes abortion, sterilization Front Royal VA 22630 Trump, who will serve a second term, and contraception overseas, not to (540)-662-5240 or Vice President Joe Biden, who will mention helped China cover up its [email protected] serve his first. COVID-19 crimes. www.pop.org Of course, if the recounts and law- Other actions harmful to life will suits take as long or longer than they happen as well, albeit largely out of Fr. Paul Marx, OSB, PhD did in 2000, when the Supreme Court sight of the American public. A Biden (1920-2010) did not decide Bush v. Gore until 37 administration will: Founder days after the election, the matter may Demand that poor countries ac- still be in limbo. Steven W. Mosher cept the radical anti-life anti-family What is clear is that, depending President agenda. upon the outcome, our nation will take Joel Bockrath Insist that poor countries legalize one of two starkly different paths. Since Executive Vice President abortion as a condition of receiving most of my work has been on pro-life foreign aid. Jonathan Abbamonte issues, and the bulk of this in the inter- Research Analyst national arena, let me lay out what these Appoint fanatically pro-abortion ne- two paths mean to me, a lay Catholic gotiators to the UN, where they will Karen Shannon pro-life leader who has been fighting for push for abortion to be recognized Development Manager life for over three decades. as an international “human right.” Carlos Polo Simply put, if Joe Biden becomes You may wonder if I am not paint- Director, PRI Latin the 46th President of the United States, ing too grim a picture of what a Biden American Office administration portends? I wish I were, all of our work is in the crosshairs. The Carlos Beltramo but I have been in the pro-life trench- most pro-abortion administration in Director, PRI European es too long to be sanguine in such American history will take office on Office January 20, 2021. matters. Joe Biden has pledged to his Progres- The actions I outlined above were sive supporters that he will immediately all taken by two previous Democrat Design by sign Executive Orders that will: administrations—Bill Clinton’s from 1993-2001 and Barack Obama’s from Perceptions Studio Force Americans to fund Planned 2009-2017—and there is every reason Amherst, New Hampshire Parenthood. to think that a third will as well. Eliminate the Mexico City Policy, Indeed, a Biden administration may allowing taxpayer money to pay for well pose more challenges for Catholic abortions in other countries. pro-lifers than earlier Democrat presi- Refund the UN Population Fund, dencies because of the sharp left turn the very fund that helped create the that the party has taken on social issues brutal Chinese One Child Policy and in recent years. everywhere pushes for abortion. (continued on next page)
2 Indeed, a Biden administration We Can Do may well pose more challenges All We Do for Catholic pro-lifers than earlier Because of You! Democrat presidencies because of Happy New Year! the sharp left turn that the party has nd thank you for making it taken on social issues in recent years. Apossible for PRI to say this! It’s all because of you, and hun- dreds of others who were so gener- The Democrat party long ago will further expand the Mexico ous in your Christmas gifts to PRI, rejected the position popularized City Policy, helping to keep U.S. who have helped us to get 2021 off by Bill Clinton, namely, that abor- funds out of the hands of those to a happier start. tion should be “safe, legal and who would use it to perform or I can’t say it enough: you rare.” It now enthusiastically en- promote abortion. make everything that we do pos- dorses a radical abortion activism The bishops tell us that the pro- sible. From sending ultrasound that at times has even portrayed tection of innocent unborn life is machines to pregnancy centers baby killing as a positive act. the paramount issue, and on this in need in the poorest of places Major figures in the Democrat the position of the two candidates around the world, to investigat- party advocate abortion on de- could not be further apart. If there ing and exposing the numerous mand up to—and in some cases ever was, in the political arena, a human right violations that result beyond—childbirth. Manichean divide between light from coercive population control As a convert to the Catholic and darkness, between good and practices worldwide. faith, it is troubling for me that evil, it is now before us. You are the means for every the next Catholic to sit in the Oval The election will have only one saved baby, every healthier mother. Office—only our second in over of two outcomes. Either the light So as we enter into this new cal- two hundred years—may be the of Trump’s pro-life polices will endar year 2021, please remember most radically anti-life president stay on, or we will be plunged into how thankful we are, and how glad we have ever had. the darkness of an administration we are that you have joined in this There is another possibility. If that seeks to promote, in every life-saving work! Donald Trump is re-elected, the way imaginable, the greatest evil pro-life policies I have outlined of our time. above will not only stay in place, Whatever happens, of course, Thank you from they will be expanded. I was an faithful Catholics will not be curs- all of us! early supporter of the President, ing that darkness. Instead they largely because of the pro-life will be lighting candles—first be- Steven, Chris, Joel, Karen, promises he made to me, and I fore the altars of their churches, Jonathan, Allen, Ellen, have not been disappointed. and then through the good work Kate, Olivia, Cari, You may not have heard that, that they will do in assisting, for Therese and Sophie even during the press of last example, crisis pregnancy cen- month’s campaign, the President ters at home and pro-life proj- found time to sign a new execu- ects abroad. And I know that you tive order encouraging adoption will be helping PRI as we battle over abortion. And there is a new on, fighting for Life. rule, now in its final stages, that
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4 Biden Family, continued
There’s one fact that jumps out will be worth whatever the CCP de- uity markets on preferential terms. from Biden’s record as vice presi- cides to pay the Bidens for it. To put it bluntly, it allowed CCP dent: wherever Obama puts him in Giuliani sums up by saying, “[Joe corporations to cheat unsuspecting charge of foreign policy as “point Biden]’s asking to be president of U.S. investors out of their money by man,” whether it be Iraq, Russia, the U.S. and he’s in partnership with cooking their books. Ukraine, or China, America loses, the Chinese Communist Party. The Since leaving office, even as the and the Biden family wins. Biden family is owned by the Chi- danger that China poses to the Unit- Rudy Giuliani, the former may- nese Communist Party.” ed States and the world has become or of New York City, doesn’t mince What did the Chinese Commu- ever more apparent, the former vice words about what he calls the Biden nist Party receive in return for its in- president has continued his apolo- Crime Family. “What Hunter Biden vestment in the then–vice president? gy tour on behalf of the PRC. Right is, is a bagman,” says Giuliani. “I’ve First of all, they bought the ser- now, as China steals our jobs and our prosecuted many cases like this. He’s vices of a first-rate propagandist. technology and sickens the world collecting Joe’s bribes that come to Vice President Biden eagerly spread with the coronavirus, Joe Biden still about $12 million from the Ukraine the myth not only that China’s rise won’t stand up to it. and $3.5 million from Russia. But the was inevitable, but that the United Instead, he seems bent upon sur- really big money comes from China. States should welcome it.3 rendering to China. He intends to lift And the amount of money involved At the same time, Biden took President Trump’s tariffs on China is literally in the tens of millions of a dive on the human rights front, without getting anything in return. dollars.”1 soft-pedaling the CCP’s many abuses. He will tax American companies at One leaked investigative re- When he did speak out in public, it a higher rate than Communist China port summarizes Hunter’s many was often to apologize for the CCP’s does, which will lead to millions of business deals in China.2 To take just misbehavior, as when he said on a vis- American jobs shipped to Beijing. one example, his private equity deal it to China that he “understood” the He has even promised to restore called BHR, originally worth $1.5 bil- need for the brutal one-child policy. funding to the World Health Organi- lion, is now worth an estimated $6.5 Another payback to the CCP zation — the same WHO that collab- billion. BHR is probably generating came in May 2013, when the then- orated with the CCP in covering up about $130 million a year in fees, V.P. helped engineer a “memoran- the spread of the coronavirus. of which 10 percent, or $13 million, dum of understanding” with the PRC Even if Joe Biden comes to under- would go to Hunter. According to that exempted Chinese corporations stand the mortal threat that the CCP Hunter’s email, half of this — or $6.5 from U.S. securities statutes and reg- poses to America, he’s in too deep to million — would have to be turned ulations.4 This gave CCP-controlled extricate himself and his family. The over to “Pop.” firms an advantage over American CCP could easily leak the details of But the real big money will come firms listed in U.S. stock exchanges the deals it has struck with the Biden when the Bidens sell their 10 percent by exempting them from indepen- Crime Family if he tries to get tough stake in BHR, which at current val- dent audits. on China.5 uations would be worth some $650 This meant that the Party could Make no mistake: If Biden wins, million. In actual fact, however, it raise trillions from our debt and eq- China wins, and America loses.
1 https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/10/today-steve-bannons-war-room-rudy-giuliani-discusses-biden-crime-family-scandal-must-see-video- 10-noon-et/ 2 https://www.revolver.news/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/2020.09.29-12.28-revolvernews-5f732864a9baf.pdf 3 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2018/04/09/chinas-rise-power-inevitable-west-can-benefit/ 4 https://presentdangerchina.org/2020/08/bankrolling-the-enemy-malevolent-chinese-companies-benefit-from-both-u-s-taxpayer-support-and-ac- cess-to-americas-capital-markets/ 5 https://twitter.com/All50News/status/1317086394548932608
JAnuary / February 2021 5 Vatican Statement on the Morality of Using Some Anti-Covid Vaccines
Note to Our Readers: As a matter There is already an important those who make the decision to of personal moral choice, I will not pronouncement of the Pontifical use them is not the same as that be taking the vaccine. I do not want Academy for Life on this issue, en- of those who have no voice in to be even remotely complicit in the titled “Moral reflections on vaccines such a decision”.2 act of abortion. Of course, my sit- prepared from cells derived from 2. In this sense, when ethically ir- uation is different from most since aborted human fetuses” (5 June reproachable Covid-19 vaccines I contracted the China Virus some 2005). Further, this Congregation are not available (e.g. in countries months ago and am presumably at expressed itself on the matter with where vaccines without ethical very low risk for any further infec- the Instruction Dignitas Personae problems are not made available tions. I am also aware—as we should (September 8, 2008, cf. nn. 34 and to physicians and patients, or all be by now—that there are a num- 35). In 2017, the Pontifical Academy where their distribution is more ber of inexpensive and effective ther- for Life returned to the topic with a difficult due to special storage apies such as Hydroxychloroquine Note. These documents already offer and transport conditions, or and Ivermectin that are available to some general directive criteria. when various types of vaccines treat the disease. To help you as you Since the first vaccines against are distributed in the same coun- make your own choice concerning Covid-19 are already available for try but health authorities do not vaccination, I wanted to share with distribution and administration in allow citizens to choose the vac- you this statement by the Congrega- various countries, this Congregation cine with which to be inoculated) tion for the Doctrine of the Faith desires to offer some indications for it is morally acceptable to receive on the question. clarification of this matter. We do Covid-19 vaccines that have used not intend to judge the safety and — Steven W. Mosher, cell lines from aborted fetuses in efficacy of these vaccines, although PRI President their research and production ethically relevant and necessary, as process. he question of the use of vac- this evaluation is the responsibility 3. The fundamental reason for con- Tcines, in general, is often at the of biomedical researchers and drug sidering the use of these vaccines center of controversy in the forum agencies. Here, our objective is only morally licit is that the kind of of public opinion. In recent months, to consider the moral aspects of the cooperation in evil (passive mate- this Congregation has received use of the vaccines against Covid-19 rial cooperation) in the procured several requests for guidance re- that have been developed from cell abortion from which these cell garding the use of vaccines against lines derived from tissues obtained lines originate is, on the part of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes from two fetuses that were not spon- those making use of the resulting Covid-19, which, in the course of taneously aborted. vaccines, remote. The moral duty research and production, employed 1. As the Instruction Dignitas to avoid such passive material co- cell lines drawn from tissue obtained Personae states, in cases where operation is not obligatory if there from two abortions that occurred in cells from aborted fetuses are em- is a grave danger, such as the oth- the last century. At the same time, ployed to create cell lines for use erwise uncontainable spread of a diverse and sometimes conflicting in scientific research, “there exist serious pathological agent3—in pronouncements in the mass media differing degrees of responsibil- this case, the pandemic spread of by bishops, Catholic associations, ity”1 of cooperation in evil. For the SARS-CoV-2 virus that caus- and experts have raised questions example, “in organizations where es Covid-19. It must therefore be about the morality of the use of these cell lines of illicit origin are be- considered that, in such a case, vaccines. ing utilized, the responsibility of
6 POPULATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE REVIEW all vaccinations recognized as clinically safe and effective can be The morality of vaccination used in good conscience with the certain knowledge that the use of depends not only on the duty such vaccines does not constitute to protect one’s own health, but formal cooperation with the abor- tion from which the cells used in also on the duty to pursue the production of the vaccines derive. It should be emphasized, howev- common good. er, that the morally licit use of these types of vaccines, in the particular conditions that make it of vaccination depends not only that vaccines, which are effective so, does not in itself constitute a on the duty to protect one’s own and safe from a medical point of legitimation, even indirect, of the health, but also on the duty to view, as well as ethically accept- practice of abortion, and neces- pursue the common good. In the able, are also accessible to the sarily assumes the opposition to absence of other means to stop or poorest countries in a manner this practice by those who make even prevent the epidemic, the that is not costly for them. The use of these vaccines. common good may recommend lack of access to vaccines, other- 4. In fact, the licit use of such vac- vaccination, especially to protect wise, would become another sign cines does not and should not the weakest and most exposed. of discrimination and injustice in any way imply that there is a Those who, however, for reasons that condemns poor countries moral endorsement of the use of of conscience, refuse vaccines to continue living in health, eco- cell lines proceeding from abort- produced with cell lines from nomic and social poverty.5 ed fetuses.4 Both pharmaceutical aborted fetuses, must do their The Sovereign Pontiff Francis, at companies and governmental utmost to avoid, by other pro- the Audience granted to the under- health agencies are therefore en- phylactic means and appropriate signed Prefect of the Congregation couraged to produce, approve, behavior, becoming vehicles for for the Doctrine of the Faith, on 17 distribute and offer ethically the transmission of the infectious December 2020, examined the pres- acceptable vaccines that do not agent. In particular, they must ent Note and ordered its publication. create problems of conscience for avoid any risk to the health of either health care providers or the those who cannot be vaccinated Rome, from the Offices of the Congre- people to be vaccinated. for medical or other reasons, and gation for the Doctrine of the Faith, on 21 December 2020, Liturgical Me- 5. At the same time, practical reason who are the most vulnerable. morial of Saint Peter Canisius. makes evident that vaccination is 6. Finally, there is also a moral im- not, as a rule, a moral obligation perative for the pharmaceutical Luis F. Card. Ladaria, S.I., Prefect and that, therefore, it must be industry, governments and inter- S.E. Mons. Giacomo Morandi, Titu- voluntary. In any case, from the national organizations to ensure lar Archbishop of Cerveteri, Secretary ethical point of view, the morality
1 Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Instruction Dignitas Personae (8th December 2008), n. 35; AAS (100), 884. 2 Ibid, 885. 3 Cfr. Pontifical Academy for Life, “Moral reflections on vaccines prepared from cells derived from aborted human foetuses”, 5th June 2005. 4 Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Instruct. Dignitas Personae, n. 35: “When the illicit action is endorsed by the laws which regulate healthcare and scientific research, it is necessary to distance oneself from the evil aspects of that system in order not to give the impression of a certain toleration or tacit acceptance of actions which are gravely unjust. Any appearance of acceptance would in fact contribute to the growing indifference to, if not the approval of, such actions in certain medical and political circles”. 5 Cfr. Francis, Address to the members of the “Banco Farmaceutico” foundation, 19 September 2020.
JAnuary / February 2021 7 HUMANAE VITAE COALITION Wake Up: Population Controllers Are Planning on a Banner Year
by Dr. Christopher Manion, Director of the Humanae Vitae Project
achet auf, ruft uns die Stimme!” zations, Big Tech and Big Media have is contrary to the divine plan,” he W“Sleepers, awake! The voice of moved to seize control of the pan- writes. “It tends to make humanity the watchman calls us!” For good rea- demic for their own ends. uniform. Globalization means cut- son it’s hailed as one of Johann Sebas- The lust for power fairly oozes ting man off from his roots, from his tian Bach’s most beloved cantatas. among the Population Controllers. religion, from his culture, history, In every generation, Jesus calls on They love to boss people around—es- customs and ancestors. He becomes the wise virgins to stay awake, and pecially those whom the late Justice stateless, without a country, with- still their foolish companions snooze Ruth Bader Ginsberg regarded as out a land.” We become a “planetary the night away. “populations that we don’t want to herd…. Globalized humanity, with- Not Satan. He never sleeps, and have too many of.” out borders, is a hell.” he doesn’t take Sundays off. “Never We must bear in mind that, when Rejoice! let a crisis go to waste,” said Clinton the United States launched its family advisor Rahm Emmanuel. And day planning programs in the 1960s, the Bach’s rendition of Wachet auf ex- in, day out, Satan churns the spirits agenda had widespread, bipartisan pands on a hymn written in 1598 by of crisis, chaos, and conflict. He sows support. Before long, our foreign aid Philippus Nicolai, when his German fear, doubt, and distrust as his allies programs required “family planning” home of Unna had been beset by the move the pieces on the chessboard, to be included in every grant. If the plague for almost a year. Sound fa- closing in on the faithful and putting Third World’s poor wanted clean miliar? And always mindful of God’s the final touches on the straitjackets water or basic medicines, they had will, Dr. Nicolai hoped that the hymn they plan to use in their final attack to have contraceptives and abortifa- would “comfort other sufferers on our religious freedom. cients too, our controllers dictated whom He should also visit with the They’re moving at the speed of – and their word was, literally, law. pestilence.” light, not even hiding it anymore. All power planning requires that Let us find comfort in God’s Here at home, millions are still barred style of coercion. And today’s advo- promise. Today’s pestilence threat- from Mass and the Sacraments. cates are hyping the “horrors” of the ens the spirit as well as the body. Schools are shuttered and students pandemic in order to tighten their There was no public liturgy in the shoved onto a flat, lifeless screen. grip in other ways on daily life, both Vatican for Holy Week and Easter Businesses have closed, and our in the United States and around the this year, and there will be none neighborhoods have been converted world. Their proposals travel under for Advent and Christmas. But we into no-go zones. Arbitrary politi- several banners—“the Great Re- should celebrate nonetheless! cians turn neighbor against neighbor, set,” “Globalism,” “Post-Pandemic Every year, the Christmas Season demanding we report violations of Society”—but they all focus on elim- lasts for a full forty days, ending with their capricious lockdown diktats. inating America’s leadership in the the Feast of the Presentation on Feb- world, erasing our country’s unique All about Control ruary 2. With the gift of Bach’s beau- character and replacing it with a taw- tiful Cantata, we can join in song Be sure to download your free copy dry “universalism.” and in spirit, “Des sind wir froh, io, of PRI’s latest book, Pandemonium, We must resist, and we are not io, ewig in dulci jubilo.” on pop.org today. Here you’ll see alone. In The Day Is Now Far Spent, “And so we rejoice, io, io, in sweet the breathtaking alacrity with which Robert Cardinal Sarah states the and eternal jubilation.” governments, international organi- problem clearly. “Globalization A blessed Christmastide to all.
8 POPULATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE REVIEW Pandemonium II: The Remedy for the Future of All Families
by Carlos Beltramo, Ph.D. Director, PRI European Office
PRI’s Second E-Book um II because of all that is happening On Global Pandemic in the political and social arenas that Focuses on Solutions reveal characteristics of a dangerous new era. hen we at Population Re- We already know that nothing is Wsearch Institute launched our the same as it used to be. But we do book Pandemonium a few months not know exactly where it will end. ago, we did so with the intention of The shift has already taken place, but giving intellectuals and academics a we still do not see clearly where we are way to publish their opinions about really going. It is a time of uncertainty. the coronavirus pandemic that were We wanted to call our second not being covered by the media. Pro- book Pandemonium II: The Remedy. gressive and leftist messaging on the We have made it with the idea that virus had become pervasive, domi- there actually exist two pandemics: neering, and nearly monopolistic. It the first—a biological one initiated by was time to provide some space for eli_asenova/Getty Images a virus that China sent us from Wu- young conservative thinkers. han, is an excuse for the second—the The success of the book was im- cels our accounts without giving us pandemic of the false narrative. We mediate and overwhelming. (For even the slightest explanation. are in a new “Cold War,” this time more information about Pandemoni- Pandemonium strived to be the between China and the current ad- um, see page 10). Many people want- place for the brave. We do not con- ministration of the United States. ed to read our opinions and have ac- done violence. We support peaceful While the world is waiting for cess to “the other point of view.” We discourse, and we invite the debate a vaccine, the leftist governments opened up a debate for overcoming of ideas, but without hiding what we and the vanguards of progressive the “cancel culture” that is taking think. ideology try to promote their own place in the world very aggressively. In Pandemonium II, our next pub- “remedy” as if it were the only one And it is we the conservatives, the lication, we talk about heroes. One is possible. They speak of legalizing “politically incorrect” thinkers, who Justice Amy Coney Barrett who has abortion and euthanasia, increasing are not aligned with the progressive been cruelly attacked for her sole “sin” taxes, nationalizing companies, ma- agenda, who promote true human- of being a Catholic and a good wom- nipulating the judiciary, imposing istic values, and who suffer the most an. Another is the pro-life Democrat more gender ideology in the schools, from the kind of assaults that even Congressman Dan Lipinski, who has the expansion of the state, and the Pope Francis condemns. We are in- been practically expelled from his po- rewriting of history among other sulted and targeted on the internet. litical career by his own party for not things. But this “remedy” is no cure. The haters launch threatening being supportive of abortion. The prescription offered by “main- words at us in a way that does not seek The pandemonium continues be- stream” progressives will lead to a intellectual dialogue but rather seeks cause the pandemic has demonstrat- greater “sickness” and one of longer the imposition of the leftist agenda. ed the weakness of the fundamental duration—that is, the sickness of This without counting the innumera- pillars of our contemporary society. ble times in which social media can- It was necessary to write Pandemoni- (continued on page 10)
JAnuary / February 2021 9 This Important Pandemonium ll, continued Book Is Yours socialism which has used the analyze the difference between Wuhan virus as a perfect excuse basing human rights on posi- for FREE . . . for advancing its agenda. tivist, humanist whim (always Once again, as in our pre- manipulatable by those who his just-released book reveals vious book, Pandemonium II are temporarily in power) and Thow China inflicted COVID-19 includes 16 authors from differ- basing them on natural law. The on the world and now does nothing ent countries and from different latter is what we propose. to end the suffering. It gives you professions. The first articles In summary, the remedy an up-close look at the long-term demonstrate some of the “treat- that we propose in Pandemoni- consequences. ments” for the pandemic that um II is to seek a spiritual Re- The book is Pandemonium: The are failing, that are cheating naissance, a fortifying of family Pandemic Road to Serfdom. In it, humanity with the agenda of values, a renewal of Christian you will learn ... the leftist globalists. The articles and humanistic brotherhood, that follow propose instead con- emphasizing the necessity of How China and WHO are crete strategies for civil society, protecting private enterprise in exploiting the crisis . . . how the education and the family—three the economy without neglect- Left is using it to expand global types of treatments that will tru- ing the rights of those that have control ... how some govern- ly be able to confront the pande- the least, seeking to combine ments are using the virus panic monium surrounding the pan- both. to implement more population demic and will help our world This remedy would help us control, including euthanasia ... recuperate. revive the concept of a strong The role of George Soros The second part of the book nation with an openness to companies that stand to profit ... focuses on a pre-electoral over- the world instead of global- ten practical recommendations view of the election in the Unit- ism or ideological nationalism. for dealing with the virus ... plus ed States, putting it in an inter- It would strengthen societal the virus consequence the Left national context. Finally, in the bonds of friendship as a way of probably didn’t count on – and it last section of the book, study- respecting and promoting ev- is a positive consequence! ing the function of the Supreme eryone without leaving anyone Court in the United States, we behind. This essential book is yours: pop.org/pandemonium
Court OKs Arkansas Law: Christmas Gift to Unborn
decision by the 8th Circuit or younger, notification of law A in late December means enforcement. that four pro-life laws will soon PRI believes that this ruling go into effect. The laws ban dis- signals that the 8th Circuit will memberment and sex-selection smile upon other pro-life laws abortions, as well as require no- before it, thanks to a number of tification of a patient's partner new Trump judges who now sit or family and, if the girl is 16 on the court.
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J COVID-19 Vaccines and J Will America and China tries,” Mosher said, “But it certain- The Abortion Connection Go to War Over Taiwan? ly would use force in the future if it thought it had achieved a position of WORLD—PRI Research Analyst Jon- CBN NEWS—PRI President Steve dominance.” athan Abbamonte was quoted in a Mosher was quoted in a recent report World article on the ethical questions on a video released by the Chinese J Mosher: Motherhood around vaccines and the abortion military showing a practice of an am- Helped Barrett Sail Through industry.1 phibious assault against the island of The article was focused on the re- Taiwan.2 EPOCH TIMES—PRI President cent release of COVID-19 vaccines, Incursions by Chinese fighter Steven Mosher published a column noting that the encouraging news planes into Taiwan airspace have in the Epoch Times on the failure of comes with “discouraging ethical been happening almost daily since the the Democrats to derail President questions.” summer, the report said. Communist Trump’s nomination of Amy Coney None of the COVID-19 vaccines China views Democratic Taiwan as a Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court.3 in development use the bodies of re- renegade province that must be re- “The Democrats…haven’t laid a cently aborted babies, but rather fetal unified with the mainland, and some glove on Amy Coney Barrett. This was cell lines that originated from abor- experts believe the two countries are not the way that their hi-tech gauntlet tions. The manufacturers of those cell closer than ever to war. was supposed to work,” he wrote. lines send samples to labs, which can China expert Dean Cheng at the “Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) continue growing them for research Heritage Foundation says that despite and company knew going in that they purposes. Since they have been multi- all the saber-rattling, a planned in- didn’t have the votes to stop Judge plied and grown many times, the cells vasion of Taiwan would be too risky. Barrett. But they were determined to are distinct from the baby’s original China still doesn’t have the landing at least subject her to the same kind cells. craft to ferry enough troops across of ritual humiliation that every other “We’re not performing an abor- the Taiwan strait. It would have to use conservative candidate for the Su- tion on an unborn child every time commercial shipping. preme Court has had to endure since we’re creating a vaccine,” clarified Ab- “Any kind of invasion of Taiwan the days of Robert Bork over 30 years bamonte. However, he said the use of means crossing a hundred miles of ago. the cell lines from aborted babies en- some of the worst water in the world “They should have known better. courages the pharmaceutical industry by a military that hasn’t fought a war Judge Barrett is one of the most qual- to continue that form of research. since 1979 and runs the very real risk ified judges ever to come before the Researchers developed one of- of American intervention,” Cheng court. ten-used cell line known as HEK293 said. “Aside from Judge Barrett’s ob- in the 1970s from the kidney cells of The author of Bully of Asia, China vious judicial qualifications, there’s a female baby aborted in the Nether- expert Steven Mosher, agrees, saying this: She’s the mother of seven chil- lands, according to the article. the last thing Beijing wants is a shoot- dren, including two adopted children Pfizer and Moderna explored a ing war with the United States. from Haiti and one child with special new technology that did not require “What it wants to do is it wants to needs. As I know from personal expe- cells for design or production. They use this gray area between war and rience—my wife and I have nine chil- did, however, use the HEK293 cell line peace to continue its cyberattacks, to dren—the mothers of large families during lab tests. continue its espionage in other coun- are not easily rattled,” Mosher wrote.
1 https://world.wng.org/content/what_pro_lifers_should_know_about_covid_19_vaccines 2 https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/world/2020/november/will-america-and-china-go-to-war-over-taiwan 3 https://www.theepochtimes.com/the-democrats-walk-of-shame_3540327.html?fbclid=IwAR0wemv04Dudzw7ie661kWKkJE1T39gb8bftTnh9Jn3Ar- wfkKjviLUt5LJs
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GUATEMALA SOUTH KOREA CHINA Guatemala Bans South Korea Moving China 5-Year Plan Planned Parenthood To Expand Abortion Promotes Eugenics
GUATEMALA—According to a re- SOUTH KOREA—South Korea has CHINA—The Chinese government’s port by Catholic News Agency, Gua- announced its intention to intro- latest five-year plan proposal contains temala’s Interior Ministry rescinded duce a bill that would allow abortion a birth policy with an emphasis on an agreement it had made last fall across the nation, according to a re- eugenics, according to a report in the allowing Planned Parenthood to es- port by Right to Life UK.2 National Catholic Register.3 tablish and operate a branch office Korea’s Ministry of Justice re- “China, known for its decades-long in the country, stating it was “not in vealed earlier this month that it one-child policy, is now looking to accord with the interests of the State would bring forth legislation that counter its aging population by en- of Guatemala.”1 would allow for abortion up to 24 couraging Chinese women to have President Alejandro Giammattei weeks, the report stated. more babies—but only certain kinds announced the repeal in Novem- Abortion is currently permitted of women,” the article stated. ber, declaring he would not allow in the Republic of Korea in circum- Among the Chinese Communist Planned Parenthood to operate in stances such as significant risk of Party’s goals listed in its policy blue- Guatemala. serious injury or death, or if the preg- print for the years 2021–2025 is to “I recognize life from conception nancy results from rape or incest. “optimize its birth policy” and “im- and therefore I will not tolerate in my However, the government is look- prove the quality of the population.” administration any movement that ing to expand those conditions and “I am actually very worried,” Co- violates what is established in our to allow unlimited abortion up to 14 lumbia professor Leta Hong Fincher Political Constitution of the Repub- weeks in pregnancy, and under cer- told a panel of China experts via vid- lic, that goes against the values with tain circumstances, up to 24 weeks. eo link at a virtual event by the Cen- which I was raised and that conflicts These include “extenuating medical ter for International and Strategic with my principles as doctor,” Giam- or economic circumstances,” which Studies in November. mattei said. “I am a faithful defender has in practice in other countries al- “What caught my eye was that of life and I am emphatic in stating lowed de-facto abortion on demand. they actually use specific language that I will not endorse in my admin- Song Young-chae, a university saying that China needs to ‘upgrade istration the creation, registration professor who opposes a change in population quality.’ They need to or start-up of any organization that the law, said, “[Legalizing abortion] ‘optimize their birth policy.’ They goes against life.” goes against Korean values, our even use a term … which is effec- According to the article, when ancestors and society. Koreans… tively emphasizing the role of eu- the initial agreement authorizing will always value all life, even if it is genics in population planning in Planned Parenthood was made unborn.” China,” she said. public, political and citizen groups In April 2019, the Korean Su- Hong Fincher is the author of the voiced their opposition, and lawmak- preme Court declared that the book Leftover Women: The Resur- ers from the Viva party called for the country’s current abortion law is gence of Gender Inequality in China. Interior Minister to resign. unconstitutional, according to the As reported in the Register, Hong The Interior Minister, Oliverio report. A similar case tried before Fincher said that the Chinese gov- García Rodas, submitted his resigna- the court in 2012 upheld the Act as ernment’s plans to control reproduc- tion, which was accepted. constitutional. tion were part of the regime’s goals.
1 https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/agreement-allowing-planned-parenthood-to-operate-in-guatemala-rescinded-27266 2 https://www.liveaction.org/news/south-korea-law-abortion-24-weeks/ 3 https://www.ncregister.com/news/china-s-five-year-plan-proposal-stresses-eugenics-in-birth-policy-says-expert
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