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.

December 20, 2024

UK: CROWN PROSECUTION SURRENDERS TO ABORTION IDEOLOGY AFTER COUPLE ALLEGEDLY ABORTS CHILD PAST LEGAL LIMIT. A couple that allegedly aborted their baby past the legal limit have been sentenced to community service and unpaid work for concealing the body of their stillborn baby in a rubbish bin, but the Crown Prosecution Service said that after “careful reflection” it had decided not to pursue the additional charge of illegal abortion as it was “not in the public interest.” Read more here.

 

SAM’S CLUB REMOVES ABORTION PILL FROM PHARMACY WEBSITE. Just days after grocery giant Kroger claimed the abortion drug mifepristone was listed on their Health Savings Club pharmacy website due to an “error” and removed the listing, wholesale giant Sam’s Club has likewise stated that it too erroneously listed the abortion pill on its pharmacy website due to an error committed by a “third-party vendor.” Read more here.

 

PRO-LIFERS CLAIM VICTORY FOR FREE SPEECH AFTER MINNEAPOLIS BUFFER ZONE LAWSUIT. Pro-lifers in Minneapolis are claiming a victory after the city amended its ordinance that had prohibited pro-life speech outside abortion facilities. Read more here.

U.S. SENATE PASSES DEFENSE BILL THAT INCLUDES BAN ON GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE FOR MINORS. The bill passed, 85 to 14, despite Democratic opposition to a provision banning coverage of gender-affirming care for the transgender children of military service members. Read more here.

 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION WITHDRAWS PROPOSED RULES ON SINGLE-SEX SPORTS PARTICIPATION BY GENDER IDENTITY. The Biden administration’s Department of Education, Office of Civil Rights, withdrew a proposed rule that would have largely barred policies that forbade student athletes from participating in single-sex sports according to their gender identity rather than their sex. Read more here.

 

VOLLEYBALL PLAYER ‘FIGHTS FOR TRUTH’ AFTER BEING SEVERELY INJURED BY TRANS OPPONENT. Payton McNabb tells her story of how a male volleyball player’s vicious spike nearly killed her and her dream of college athletics in the new documentary “Kill Shot: How Payton McNabb Turned Tragedy Into Triumph,” created by the Independent Women’s Forum. Read more here.

 

WOMEN FLEE SAN JOSE STATE VOLLEYBALL TEAM AFTER SCANDAL-PLAGUED SEASON INVOLVING TRANS PLAYER. San Jose State University has finally acknowledged that it has lost a significant number of women from its volleyball team amid the ongoing controversy over the school’s decision to include a transgender player. The mass exodus comprises at least seven players who have entered the college transfer portal and will leave the team after this 2024 school year. Read more here.

 

OHIO SCHOOL DISTRICT PAYS FINE FOR FORCING TEACHER TO RESIGN OVER TRANSGENDER DISPUTE. Jackson Local School District in Ohio must pay teacher Vivian Geraghty a financial settlement after it forced her to resign for refusing to participate in the “social transition” of minor students. Read more here.

 

TRANS KILLER COMPLAINS AFTER BEING REMOVED FROM WASHINGTON STATE WOMEN’S PRISON FOLLOWING SEX WITH INMATE. A trans-identifying male murderer serving a life sentence in Washington filed a court petition through the ACLU of Washington, arguing that a transfer to a men’s prison is cruel punishment. Read more here.

 

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA OFFERED TO PAY FIVE-YEAR-OLDS TO PLAY WITH TRANSGENDER DOLLS WITH GENITALS. The University of Minnesota offered to pay children as young as five cash to play with MyGender transgender dolls. The “MyGender Dolls” are similar to classic paper dolls, but they have movable internal sex organs, external genitals, hairstyles, clothing, and other accessories. Read more here.

‘AGAINST SOCIETY’S RULES’: NITIN GADKARI ON LIVE-IN RELATIONSHIPS, SAME SEX MARRIAGES. In India, Union minister Nitin Gadkari said live-in relationships are wrong and against the rules of society, while adding that same-sex marriages would lead to the collapse of social structure. Read more here.

PARENTS BLAST HIGH SCHOOL LGBTQ ASSIGNMENT GIVEN TO THEIR KIDS. Southern California parents blasted their kids’ school after a math teacher at Rancho Buena Vista high school gave his students an LGBTQ assignment in which they were to come out as homosexual. Read more here.

 

BOSTON U. ‘QUEERING HEALTH’ CLASS TO TEACH ‘LGBTQ+ AFFIRMING THERAPIES.’ Boston University is offering a class called “Queering Health” next year to teach students about “LGBTQ+ affirming therapies, healthcare, public policy, and legislation,” and the course is a requirement for graduation. Read more here.

SUPREME COURT WILL HEAR CASE UPHOLDING STATES’ RIGHT TO DEFUND PLANNED PARENTHOOD. The U.S. Supreme Court has accepted the case of Kerr v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, a case that could decide whether pro-life states like South Carolina can direct Medicaid funds—funds intended to help low-income individuals obtain necessary medical assistance—away from abortion companies like Planned Parenthood. Read more here.

 

PLANNED PARENTHOOD EXPLOITED TEEN GIRL’S DEPRESSION, SOLD HER ‘SEX CHANGE’ HORMONES. As a young teen, Helena Kerschner began experiencing severe depression, gender confusion and other problems, and she was encouraged by Planned Parenthood to self-determine cross-sex hormone drug usage. Read more here.

OHIO SENATE PASSES PARENTAL RIGHTS BILL, SCHOOL RELEASE TIME FOR STUDENTS’ RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION. The Ohio Senate has passed a bill that advances parental rights issues that include allowing public school students to be taken off campus during school hours to have religious instruction, and the bill now needs the signature of Gov. Mike DeWine to become law. Read more here.

 

PIZZA PARLOR UNDER FIRE FOR REFUSING TO CATER HOMOSEXUAL WEDDING. The Pizzeria Cortile restaurant in Chattanooga, Tennessee is facing the wrath of LGBT activists for declining to cater a same-sex wedding ceremony, receiving insults amid calls for an audit by the Internal Revenue Service. Read more here.

LEGISLATION WOULD UPDATE HOW SEX EDUCATION IS TAUGHT IN MICHIGAN SCHOOLS. State Rep. Rachel Hood, sponsor of a Michigan House Bill aimed at altering sex education and ending the prohibition against school distribution of condoms, said sex education laws focus too much on teaching abstinence and lack inclusive language for students who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, or questioning, and the many other identities that fall under the umbrella known as LGBTQ+. Read more here.

ADF LAUNCHES NEW CENTER FOR FREE SPEECH THAT WILL DEFEND PRO-LIFE CHRISTIANS. Responding to the rising threat of global censorship, Alliance Defending Freedom is launching a new litigation team, the Center for Free Speech, in an effort to defend every person’s right to speak freely and hold the government and powerful corporations accountable when they unlawfully censor or punish speech. Read more here.

CANADA’S LGBT ACTIVISTS DON’T WANT TOLERANCE. THEY WANT DOMINATION, by Jonathon Van Maren. “For decades, the LGBT movement demanded ‘toleration.’ As I have noted in this space many times, that was never the goal; it was just the pitch, carefully curated for public consumption. The truth is that the LGBT movement sought—and seeks—cultural dominance. They seek to have every level of government positively affirm their agenda, to have their flags fly in front of government buildings, to enforce speech codes that constitute compelled speech (‘preferred pronouns’), and to use whatever mechanisms available to punish those who oppose or stand in the way of these goals.” Read more here.

 

BIDEN ADMINISTRATION ATTACKS IDAHO’S PRO-LIFE LAW WITH LIES, by Kelsey Pritchard. “The Biden-Harris administration isn’t easing up on their abortion agenda. In their last 30 days, the federal government is continuing its quest to dismantle Idaho’s pro-life law by twisting the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA). Democrats went all in on the issue of abortion this election. According to AdImpact, Democrats spent [millions] on abortion-focused TV ads for federal races during the general election.” Read more here.

 

THINK AGAIN, by Bernard Lane. “South Africa’s Health Minister, Dr Pakishe Aaron Motsoaledi, has faced formal questions in the country’s National Assembly about the extent of the use of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgery among young people and whether parental consent is required. ‘[T]his area is currently being reviewed, particularly for children and adolescents, to ensure that all recommendations are in the best interest of this vulnerable population,’ Dr Motsoaledi said in a brief reply to the questions concerning cross-sex hormones.” Read more here.

 

THE BEST (AND WORST!) BOOKS TO BUY KIDS THIS CHRISTMAS, by Kimberly Ellis. “Jean the Book Dragon is a rising star on Instagram, garnering over 50,000 followers in just the past year. What are her followers hungry for? Clean books: Books without steamy sex scenes, raunchy language, or explicit content. And that’s exactly what Jean delivers. This sassy bookworm reviews books and tells her audience which ones to avoid like the plague and which ones are safe to devour with wild abandon.” Read more here.

 

THE LEFT’S TAKEOVER OF ‘SCIENCE’ IS OBVIOUS WHEN IT COMES TO SEX DIFFERENCES, by Robert Gagnon. “Comedian Bill Maher’s exchange with science commentator Neil deGrasse Tyson on male-female ‘inequity’ in sports underscores how unscientific scientists can be when captured by a ‘woke’ agenda. Tyson has used his astrophysicist credentials to spout absurd views about day-to-day changes in gender identity while ignoring the dangers to women in private spaces, minors who get chemical castration, and free speech. Though the spat between Maher and Tyson may be a flash in the pan, the issues at stake matter.” Read more here.

 

MEN ARE IN TROUBLE BECAUSE MARRIAGE IS IN TROUBLE, by Conn Caroll. “After decades of focusing exclusively on boosting female success, many on the Left are finally realizing that many young men are now significantly behind their female counterparts. …In Wednesday’s New York Times, under the headline, ‘If Men Are in Trouble, What Is the Cause?’ Thomas B. Edsall acknowledges this burgeoning problem by highlighting a recent paper … finding that ‘family socioeconomic status particularly influences boys’ relative to girls’ outcomes at the lower tails of the outcome distribution … In other words, whether or not a boy had a married father in the home at birth was the largest predictor of that boy’s academic success.” Read more here.

 

GENDER IDEOLOGY HAS COMPLETELY TAKEN OVER THE TORONTO CATHOLIC SCHOOL BOARD, by Josie Luetke. “As Maya Angelou says, ‘When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.’ The Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB)’s Equity Department and 2SLGBTQ+ Advisory Committee are wolves in sheep’s clothing that’s frayed and two sizes too small. We see through it. The gig is up—hide yo’ kids! Allow me to review some of the alarming events and material from the past year, with an eye towards mounting a resistance in 2025.” Read more here.

 

GROUNDBREAKING TROOP BILL HEADS TO BIDEN’S DESK WITH FIRST-EVER REBUKE OF TRANS IDEOLOGY, by Suzanne Bowdey. “After a frustrating and bitterly divided year in Congress, one thing that will go down as a bright shining success for the GOP is the passage of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). On Wednesday, the Senate voted to send the 1,800-page behemoth to President Joe Biden’s desk, where he will be forced to do something neither side ever thought possible: sign a bill protecting children from his radical transgender agenda.” Read more here.