Family Watch Newswire
The Family Watch Newswire is a service of Family Watch International that highlights important news items and useful analysis on the family and family-related issues from around the world.
March 28, 2025
PRO-LIFE ‘BABY BOX’ FOR ABANDONED BABIES OUTRAGES PRO-ABORTION GROUPS IN CROATIA. A “baby box” for abandoned babies in Croatia has been called a “Trojan horse” by pro-abortion groups outraged by the initiative of a pro-life group and Catholic nuns who say they are continuing an ancient Croatian tradition of preserving the value of human life. Read more here.
GUAM’S ATTORNEY GENERAL ASKED TO INVESTIGATE TWO ABORTION DOCTORS. A request by Guam resident Tim Rohr is asking the Office of the Attorney General to investigate and bring action against a couple of doctors who allegedly failed to meet abortion reporting requirements. Read more here.
YOUNGKIN VETOES DEMOCRAT BILL ALLOWING PRO-LIFERS TO BE ‘JAILED SIMPLY FOR CARRYING A SIGN.’ Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin vetoed a Democrat-backed bill that advocates say would have been used to target peaceful pro-life protesters and sidewalk counselors outside of abortion facilities. Read more here.
MAINE CONSIDERING SEVERAL ANTI-ABORTION BILLS, FROM LATE-TERM RESTRICTIONS TO NEAR-TOTAL BAN. Maine is considering seven bills that would impose varying restrictions on abortion from an outright ban to abortion pill hurdles. Read more here.
JUDGE LIVING 2,800 MILES FROM DC OVERRULES TRUMP, HEGSETH ON TRANS-IDENTIFYING SERVICE MEMBERS. Judge Benjamin Settle in Tacoma, Washington — roughly 2,800 miles from Washington, D.C. — issued an injunction against the ban on trans-identifying members of the military, a ban that was ordered by the commander in chief, President Donald Trump, and that the secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, then tried to implement. Read more here.
SCOUTING IRELAND EMBROILED IN TRANSGENDER ROW. Scouting Ireland, the governing body for boy and girl scouts in Ireland, has become embroiled in internal controversy over transgender policy on foot of a new safeguarding policy to be introduced later this year which would see biological men treated as women for the purpose of supervising female children. Read more here.
U.S. ED SEC MCMAHON WARNS CALIFORNIA GOV. GAVIN NEWSOM TO DITCH ‘GENDER IDENTITY,’ COMPLY WITH TITLE IX OR RISK FEDERAL FUNDING. Education Secretary Linda McMahon sent a letter to California Governor Gavin Newsom warning him that the state must comply with President Donald Trump’s executive order barring biological males from women’s sports or risk the state’s federal funding for schools. Read more here.
TEXAS LAWMAKER ‘SNEAKS’ INTO UNIVERSITY’S TRANSGENDER EVENT, EXPOSES PROGRAMS FUNDED BY TAXPAYERS. Texas state Rep. Brian Harrison sounded the alarm after he “snuck” into a state-funded transgender conference at the University of Texas at Austin. He reports seeing a banner advertising “Transcendence: A Century of Black Queer Ecstasy, 1924-2024.” Read more here.
PRESIDENT TRUMP TELLS TRANS-IDENTIFIED MALES ‘YOU CAN NEVER BECOME A WOMAN.’ Speaking at a White House event celebrating Women’s History Month, President Donald Trump, who has spearheaded protecting women’s spaces in his second time around at the White House, said that trans-identified males “can never become a woman.” Read more here.
TRUMP ADMINISTRATION INVESTIGATES CALIFORNIA FOR VIOLATING PARENTS’ RIGHTS ON TRANSGENDER ISSUE. The Trump administration is investigating the State of California over a law signed by Gavin Newsom last year that bars school districts from adopting policies requiring schools to notify parents if children want to identify as the opposite gender. Read more here.
WYOMING DOCTOR APPEALS FORCED RESIGNATION AFTER SUPPORTING LAW BANNING TRANS SURGERY ON MINORS. Dr. Eric Cubin, a Wyoming doctor who wrote an email to the State Legislature to express support for “Chloe’s Law,” which prohibits “gender reassignment” surgeries and hormone therapies for minors, has been forced to resign from the Wyoming Board of Medicine by Governor Mark Gordon. Read more here.
MONTANA ENACTS LAWS TO PROTECT WOMEN’S PRIVACY, SPORTS. Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte signed two bills into law that protect women and girls’ privacy, safety and athletic opportunities, by prohibiting men from entering into women’s changing rooms, sleeping quarters and restrooms, by requiring public schools, correctional facilities, public buildings and domestic violence shelters to safeguard women’s safety and privacy and by preventing girls from having to compete against boys. Read more here.
TRANS-IDENTIFIED MALE INMATE IN WOMEN’S PRISON CHARGED WITH ASSAULTING FEMALE STAFF. Nathan Goninan, a trans-identified male with a history of violence against women and currently incarcerated at a women’s prison in Washington state has been charged with intimidating a public servant and malicious mischief in the first degree after he threatened and assaulted a female correctional officer. Read more here.
WOMAN FIGHTS BACK AFTER LGBT ACTIVISTS SMEARED HER FOR OPPOSING SEXUALLY EXPLICIT KIDS’ BOOK. The Georgia Court of Appeals has taken up the case of a real estate agent who urged a public library to move a sexually explicit book out of the children’s section and was hounded by transgender activists. Read more here.
KENTUCKY SCIENCE CENTER APOLOGIZES FOR DISTRIBUTION OF AN INAPPROPRIATE ‘ADULT’ COLORING BOOK TO KIDS AT RECENT EVENT. Planned Parenthood distributed an “Adult” coloring book without permission of the Science Center to a group of 8- to 13-year-old public school students at an event. Planned Parenthood denies the coloring books were distributed at all. Read more here.
CONGRESSMAN BLASTS ABORTION: ‘DECAPITATION, DISMEMBERMENT AND STARVATION ARE NOT HEALTH CARE.’ During a rally to defund Planned Parenthood, U.S. Congressman Chris Smith said child decapitation, dismemberment and starvation are not health care, but instead is violence that taxpayers should not be forced to pay for. Read more here.
PLANNED PARENTHOOD CLAIMS IT HAS A RIGHT TO TRAFFIC TEENS FOR SECRET ABORTIONS. Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey is suing Planned Parenthood, accusing the organization of illegally transporting minors across state lines for abortions without parental consent. Planned Parenthood Great Plains now claims a new state constitutional amendment grants them the right to facilitate such procedures. Read more here.
PLANNED PARENTHOOD GETS $2 MILLION OF OUR TAX DOLLARS EVERY SINGLE DAY. More than 150 pro-life leaders from across the United States urged Congress to cut off taxpayer funding of the abortion industry, which took the lives of nearly 400,000 babies and received almost $700 million – nearly $2 million a day – from taxpayers in just one year. Read more here.
COMMISSION URGES TRUMP TO TAKE ACTION AGAINST GOVERNMENTS THAT VIOLATE RELIGIOUS LIBERTY. The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom is urging President Donald Trump to ensure that religious freedom violations by foreign governments result in severe consequences, such as sanctions, for the aggressors. Read more here.
PERUVIAN BISHOP DENOUNCES ‘DIRECT ATTACK’ ON CHURCH’S FREEDOM OF SPEECH. The bishop of Cajamarca, Peru, has denounced a “direct attack” on the Catholic Church’s freedom of speech by the LGBTQ+ community, which accuses the Church of the “alleged crime of discrimination” for a talk warning of the consequences of “Comprehensive Sexual Education” in Peru. Read more here.
CALIFORNIA GOV. GAVIN NEWSOM GIVES TAMPONS TO THIRD-GRADE BOYS. California public schools are legally required to stock restrooms for children in grades 3-12 with an adequate supply of menstrual products in all women’s restrooms, all-gender restrooms and in at least one men’s restroom. Read more here.
NEW HOUSING AT FRANCISCAN U. OFFERS PLACE FOR PREGNANT AND PARENTING STUDENTS. Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio recently opened a new maternity house near campus to provide a safe, supportive environment for students who are expectant mothers. Read more here.
THE “ANTI-RIGHTS” CAMPAIGN AT THE UN HEATS UP, by Rebecca Oas and Iulia-Elena Cazan. “As the successes of conservative movements at the UN have become impossible for progressives to ignore, gatekeepers throughout the UN system have increasingly closed ranks against what they derisively refer to as the ‘backlash’ and ‘pushback’ from so-called ‘anti-rights’ groups. For two years, conservative groups have been rejected by feminist UN bureaucrats to hold official events alongside the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). They have started hosting their own parallel conference across the street from UN headquarters.” Read more here.
LIFE WITH KIDS IS BETTER: ANALYZING PUBLIC WELL-BEING DATA, by Ken Burchfiel. “A few years ago, a Time Magazine cover on ‘the childfree life’ featured a happy, beautiful couple relaxing on the beach by themselves. This image implied that life is happier without kids. It’s a common refrain we hear these days, whether from news articles, childfree advocates on social media, or movies. However, a new IFS analysis of the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) suggests something most parents already know—everyday activities are actually more enjoyable when children are present.” Read more here.
TRUMP ADMINISTRATION PUSHES BACK AS UN MEETING ON WOMEN EMBRACES ABORTION, GENDER IDEOLOGY, by Grace Melton. “The UN Commission on the Status of Women concluded its annual meeting in New York last week. As always, sex radicals from the developed world did their best to push their agenda—under the cover of women’s equality—on rightly resistant countries in the developing world. The meeting marked the thirtieth anniversary of the Fourth World Congress on Women, which took place in Beijing, China in 1995. …It was there that then-First Lady Hillary Clinton issued her rallying cry, ‘human rights are women’s rights, and women’s rights are human rights,’ ushering in decades of debate on the world stage over the proper meaning of that claim.” Read more here.
MAINE MELTDOWN MAY COST THE STATE EDUCATIONAL FUNDING, by Moira Gleason. “Maine is putting it all on the line in the name of ‘transgender rights.’ The state has gone so far as to risk federal funding for education and to strip some Maine residents of representation in the state capital. The ongoing dispute between the state and the federal government over Title IX violations is set to cost Maine $250 million in federal funding if relevant state institutions do not comply with federal law by agreeing to limit women’s sports to biological women only. It appears the state won’t budge.” Read more here.
NEWSWIRE ARCHIVES BY TOPIC
Defend the Family – Donate Today!
Family Watch International is a Section 501 (c)(3) organization under the IRS code, so contributions are tax-deductible for U.S. taxpayers.