Family Watch Newswire

May 1, 2024

ARIZONA LEGISLATURE PASSES REPEAL OF 1864 ABORTION BAN. The Arizona Senate voted 16-14 to repeal the 1864 near-total abortion ban that the state Supreme Court greenlighted last month. Read more here.

17 STATES FIGHT JOE BIDEN’S PLAN TO FORCE EMPLOYERS TO FUND ABORTIONS. The Biden administration made yet another move to ensure that abortion remains front and center by moving to insert the issue into the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act earlier this month — a move that earned a strong rebuke and lawsuit from a group of 17 Republican state attorneys general. Read more here.

SCOTLAND VOTES FOR RADICAL BILL THAT CRIMINALIZES SILENT PRAYER OUTSIDE ABORTION CENTERS. Despite little public support, the Scottish Parliament has voted in favor of abortion buffer zone legislation that would make it illegal to offer assistance to women seeking an abortion within 200 meters of any facility that performs abortions, and could even result in a fine for people who display pro-life signs in their own homes. Read more here.

EU VOTE TO MAKE ABORTION A RIGHT A ‘RADICAL ATTACK’ ON LIFE, SAYS VATICAN. The Vatican’s Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, has condemned a recent European Union vote to make abortion a fundamental right as a “radical attack” on life. Read more here.

WIN FOR REALITY: UK’S NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE CONSTITUTION TO DECLARE ‘SEX IS BIOLOGICAL.’ In a marked rejection of transgender ideology and a win for women’s rights activists, the constitution of Britain’s National Health Service will publicly declare that sex is a biological reality that must inform how patients are treated. Read more here.

COURT ORDERS NORTH CAROLINA, WEST VIRGINIA TO FUND ‘SEX CHANGES’ IN STATE HEALTH CARE PLANS. A federal court has ordered the governments of North Carolina and West Virginia to provide coverage for “sex-change” operations in state health care plans offered to state employees and through Medicaid. Read more here.

MIDDLE-SCHOOL GIRLS BANNED FROM TRACK COMPETITION FOR PROTESTING TRANS SPORTS POLICIES. West Virginia attorney general Patrick Morrisey has filed a suit in support of the five middle-school girls who were banned from an upcoming track and field competition after they declined to compete against a shot-put competition against a biological male. Read more here.

CATHOLIC BISHOPS IN ENGLAND, WALES ISSUE PASTORAL STATEMENT AGAINST TRANSGENDER INTERVENTIONS. Roman Catholic bishops in England and Wales released guidance stating that medical intervention for transgender-identifying children “should not be supported.” Read more here.

AN UNEXPECTED EVIL QUEEN: DISNEY WORLD APPEARS TO ALLOW BIOLOGICAL MEN TO PLAY FEMALE CHARACTERS. According to newly acquired video and witnesses, it appears that Disney World has a biological male playing the part of an iconic, female character in full facial appearance and makeup. Read more here.

WOMEN’S COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP AWARDED TO MAN WHO PLAYS ON BOTH MEN’S AND WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL TEAMS. Seneca College, located in Toronto, awarded the Angela James Scholarship to Franz Lagardas, a supposedly gender-confused biological male who plays on both the men’s and women’s volleyball teams. Read more here.

UNITED METHODISTS IN US REPEAL LONGSTANDING BAN ON LGBT CLERGY. United Methodist delegates in the U.S. repealed their church’s longstanding ban on LGBT clergy with no debate, removing a rule forbidding “self-avowed practicing homosexuals” from being ordained or appointed as ministers. Read more here.

GLAAD COMPLAINS ABOUT ‘CONCERNING’ DROP IN LGBTQ CHARACTERS ON TV, DEMANDS HOLLYWOOD CREATE MORE ‘INCLUSIVE’ CONTENT. The number of LGBTQ characters in Hollywood TV shows fell more than 20 percent during the 2023-24 season. GLAAD (formerly the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) chastised Hollywood studios for failing to create more gay and transgender characters. Read more here.

PROSECUTOR DISMISSES CASE AGAINST FRENCH PRIEST WHO SAID HOMOSEXUAL RELATIONS ARE A SIN. French priest Matthieu Raffray disclosed that the Paris prosecutor’s office has dismissed a case initiated against him for stating that homosexual relations are a sin and for calling homosexuality a “weakness.” Read more here.

JAPAN’S FUTURE IN JEOPARDY AS ABORTION PILL HASTENS SEVERE DEMOGRAPHIC CRISIS. Recent national data show that Japan’s population fell by 595,000, or 0.48 percent, in one year, resulting in a marking the 13th consecutive year of population decrease for Japan, a country already plagued with a graying population and a sharp fall in births. Read more here.

‘SELF-MANAGED’ ABORTION ISN’T THE RESULT OF PRO-LIFE LAWS. IT WAS ALWAYS THE ABORTION INDUSTRY’S PLAN, by Carole Novielli. “Some recent pro-abortion media propaganda has attempted to gaslight the public by painting ‘self-managed abortion,’ sometimes known as ‘DIY’ or ‘at-home abortion,’ as if it is the fault of the pro-life movement and the result of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. But the abortion industry’s plan to move toward self-managed abortion was set in motion long, long before the Supreme Court’s June 2022 decision — in fact, over a decade before. It seems that now, the abortion industry and media’s plan is to blame pro-life laws when anything goes wrong with the self-managed abortions they endorsed and promoted.” Read more here.

SPEED OFFENSE, by Bernard Lane. “Australia’s health ministers and gender clinicians have sought to deny the local relevance of the Cass report by making vague claims about different pathways to treatment in the two countries. However, Australia’s gender clinics loom large in research commissioned by Dr. Cass, especially in a survey of 15 international clinics and an independent evaluation of 21 treatment guidelines around the world. In the newly published guideline research, not one of the three reviewers recommended use of the 2018 ‘Australian standards of care’ treatment guideline issued by the Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH) Melbourne.” Read more here.

‘PRONOUN ENFORCEMENT’ IS UNJUST AND UNCONSTITUTIONAL, by Alex McFarland. “Today’s LGBTQ+ activists have moved far beyond seeking tolerance. We live in an age of pronoun enforcement, a view a step beyond past progressive activism that is at odds with the sacred triumvirate of the Declaration, Constitution, and Bill of Rights. Former Republican President Ronald Reagan said during his 1967 inauguration speech after becoming California’s governor that freedom is not genetic. It is not just automatically passed on. Our Constitution is based on natural law consistent with the Judeo-Christian worldview — including when it comes to issues of gender identity and preferred pronouns.” Read more here.

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