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Population Research Institute

http://www.pop.org/

Key Leaders

PRI’s president Steven W. Mosher was appointed by Father Paul Marx in 1996. Mosher had a searing experience before coming to PRI that helps explain his near obsession with sex and China: Prior to completing his PhD at Stanford University, Mosher was expelled for “illegal and unethical conduct” while working on his dissertation in China. While he does not dispute this fact, he claims his expulsion was the result of the University “bowing to demands of the Chinese government.” Apparently, “Mosher took photos of semi-nude Chinese women in Guangdong Province who were allegedly being prepared to receive abortions. These photos were then published—with no effort made to conceal the women's identities—in a mainstream Taiwanese newsmagazine the following year, putting these women at considerable risk.” Mosher is also closely linked with other significant right-wing boards of directors, including C-FAM and the Culture of Life Foundation (CLF).

Father Paul Marx, OSB, founded PRI in 1989 and is also recognized as the founder of Human Life International (HLI) and the CLF. To learn more on Marx, visit HLI.

Organizational Background and Activities

PRI is among the most outspoken opponents of contraception. Unlike some peer anti-abortion organizations, PRI frequently makes clear that it is ideologically opposed to family planning. PRI devotes the lion’s share of its efforts to undermining public and governmental support for UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, which is the world’s leading multilateral provider of family planning assistance.

PRI’s so-called “investigation” of UNFPA’s activities in China (whose most spectacular finding was that there was a desk with a UNFPA sticker on it inside an official Chinese family planning office), was cited by members of Congress and the Bush Administration as rationale for reevaluating U.S. support for UNFPA in general. A subsequent U.S. State Department investigation found no evidence to support PRI’s claims of wrongdoing by UNFPA—in fact, it even commended their work in China. Nonetheless, the Bush Administration blocked all US funding of UNFPA in 2002 and has withheld more than $125 million from the agency through the end of 2005.

More recently, PRI has been attacking UNFPA and USAID activities in Peru. Otherwise, the organization has a relatively limited set of activities, other than issuing regular diatribes against family planning, their views on overpopulation in the world, and essential reproductive health care.

While much of the information on their Web site is dated, supporters are kept informed about current PRI issues of through the organization’s weekly briefings and their bi-monthly publication, PRI Review.


Address

Population Research Institute
1190 Progress Drive
Suite 2D
Front Royal, VA 22630

Phone: (540) 622-5240
Fax: (540) 622-2728
Email: pri@pop.org

Funding and Budget

Fiscal Year 2003

 

Income: $920,802

Expenses: $977,430

Net Loss: -$56,628

Assets: $243,179

View their IRS Form 990 at GuideStar.org (login required)


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