PRI Insider (Volume 4, Issue 19) May 17
In This Issue: Last week, South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol announced that he would be creating a “Ministry of Fertility” to counter the country’s low fertility rate. South Korea has the lowest fertility rate in the world at 0.72, which President Yoon called “a national emergency.”
PRI Insider (Volume 4, Issue 18) May 10
In This Issue: Countries brought their grievances over low fertility rates to this year’s UN Commission on Population and Development. Representatives voiced concerns over the potential consequences of falling fertility rates, including anemic economic growth, labor shortages, fiscal insolvency, and other social problems. Yet, even as representatives from countries in the Middle East and Europe shared these concerns, representatives of Western countries and UN agencies continued to push for lowering populations.
PRI Insider (Volume 4, Issue 17) May 3
In This Issue: The Center for Disease Control and Prevention has released the provisional birth rate data for 2023 and the U.S. was once again in decline. The statistics revealed that a little under 3.6 million babies were born last year, which is 76,000 fewer than the year before. It is also the lowest one-year tally since 1979.
PRI Insider (Volume 4, Issue 17) April 26
In This Issue: In March, Iowa tabled legislation that would have made it a felony to “cause the death” of an “unborn person.” Iowa is trying to avoid introducing personhood legislation, which recognizes the unborn child as having legal rights and protections. Alabama’s recent Supreme Court decision regarding IVF put personhood legislation in the spotlight for all the states.
PRI Insider (Volume 4, Issue 15) April 19th
In This Issue: Planned Parenthood’s 2022-2023 annual report revealed that the organization provided a total of 392,715 abortions. If the CDC factored child deaths caused by abortion into their “Leading Causes of Death” data, that would make Planned Parenthood-performed abortions the fourth leading cause of death, behind heart disease, cancer, and Covid-19.
PRI Insider (Volume 4, Issue 14) April 12
In This Issue: New data regarding American fertility may hold a silver lining to the “birth dearth” that the nation is experiencing. As we have highlighted previously, the U.S. fertility rate is below replacement and, in general, continues to trend downward. However, data from 2022 suggests that while Americans are having fewer babies, the babies that are being born are more likely to be born to married parents.
