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.
August 29, 2025
IRELAND: DOCTORS COULD MAKE OVER €21,000 EACH PER YEAR EXTRA FOR PROVIDING ABORTIONS, IRISH PARLIAMENT REVEALS. Doctors in Ireland are receiving an average of €21,029 extra per year in taxpayers’ money for providing abortions, receiving an average of almost €430,000 per month of taxpayers’ money for abortion consultations from January to May 2025. Read more here.
US CHINA FEUD BREAKS OUT AT UN. In rhetoric similar to his pro-abortion domestic opponents, a Chinese Ambassador at the UN attacked President Trump’s pro-life policies and accused the U.S. government of denying women abortion and contraception. Read more here.
MEN SUE OVER PARTNER ABORTIONS IN GROUNDBREAKING U.S. LAWSUITS. In newly emerging legal cases within the pro-life movement, men across Texas are filing wrongful-death lawsuits on behalf of unborn children after their partners obtained abortions, marking a significant escalation in efforts to hold abortion providers accountable. Read more here.
‘WE HAVE A PATIENT WHO IS NOT BREATHING’ – WOMAN DEAD AT PRE-TERM ABORTION CLINIC? Operation Rescue recently confirmed that a 2024 emergency phone call from the Preterm abortion facility in Cleveland revealed a 23-year-old woman had stopped breathing during an abortion procedure. Read more here.
TEXAS HOUSE PASSES MAJOR BILL TO STOP ABORTION PILLS. The Texas House of Representatives passed a major pro-life bill aimed at stopping mail-order abortion pills, and it now goes to the Senate for a vote. Read more here.
CHURCHES AND PRO-LIFE ORGANIZATIONS IN CANADA COULD LOSE TAX EXEMPTIONS. The government Standing Committee on Finance recommended that pro-life organizations and churches lose charitable status. Read more here.
MINNEAPOLIS MAYOR PREACHES ABOUT TRANS RIGHTS DURING PRESS BRIEF ABOUT COLD-BLOODED TRANS KILLER SHOOTING UP ANNUNCIATION CATHOLIC SCHOOL. In the wake of a devastating mass shooting at Annunciation Catholic School that left two children dead and 17 others injured, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey preached about transgender rights during a press conference after it was revealed that the trans male killer identified as a “woman.” Read more here.
TRANS-IDENTIFIED MALE SEIZES WOMEN’S GOLF TOURNAMENT HONOR IN CANADA. The male named Veronica Ivy, 43, dominated the competition despite only having taken up competitive golfing in February of this year. Read more here.
‘WOMEN-ONLY’ SMITH COLLEGE FACES CIVIL RIGHTS COMPLAINT FOR ADMITTING TRANS STUDENTS. Smith College, a private Massachusetts institution, is a “women-only” college, and it is facing a federal civil rights complaint for accepting men who identify women. Read more here.
ALASKA MEDICAL BOARD VOTES TO CLASSIFY TRANSGENDER PROCEDURES ON MINORS AS UNPROFESSIONAL CONDUCT. The Alaska Medical Board voted to protect minors in the state from gender transition procedures through advancing draft regulations deeming such interventions as “unprofessional medical conduct.” Read more here.
FLORIDA STATE U. MAY SCRUB ‘GENDER IDENTITY,’ ‘EXPRESSION’ FROM DISCRIMINATION POLICIES. A proposal to remove “gender identity” and “gender expression” from Florida State University discrimination policies is facing criticism from the faculty union and a student Democrat leader. Read more here.
OHIO SCHOOL DEFENDS GUIDANCE COUNSELOR SEEN IN UNDERCOVER VIDEO. An Ohio school district is considering its legal options after a watchdog group released undercover video that purportedly shows a high school guidance counselor telling an activist journalist posing as the parent of a boy identifying as “female” how to circumvent the state’s laws. Read more here.
RISING REFUGEE CLAIMS: TRANS AMERICANS SEEK ASYLUM IN CANADA. More Americans are applying for refugee status in Canada, with a notable increase in trans individuals seeking asylum due to changes in trans rights policies in the U.S. Read more here.
BOOKSTORE WEDDING MARATHON IN RESPONSE TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE THREAT. All She Wrote Books in Somerville, Mass., is hosting a “wedding marathon” in light of the U.S. Supreme Court being asked to overturn the 2015 decision that granted equal marriage rights to LGBTQ+ couples. Read more here.
HILLARY CLINTON PREDICTS SUPREME COURT WILL EVENTUALLY OVERTURN SAME-SEX MARRIAGE. Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton predicted that the Supreme Court will “do to gay marriage what they did to abortion” and send it back to states to decide. Read more here.
RFK JR.’S HHS SLASHES $122M ACROSS NEARLY 200 DEI, LGBT-FOCUSED RESEARCH PROJECTS. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Department of Health and Human Services has stopped nearly $122 million in grants to research deemed a poor use of taxpayer funds due to focus on LGBT topics. Read more here.
CRACKER BARREL TAKES DOWN PRIDE PAGE AFTER BACKLASH. The company’s website previously featured a page that said it was “bringing the porch to Pride,” but that link now redirects to its “Culture and Belonging” section. Read more here.
ANOTHER PLANNED PARENTHOOD FAILS A STATE HEALTH INSPECTION. Yet another Pennsylvania abortion center has failed inspection. An inspection report on the PA Department of Health website indicates there was an unannounced Special Monitoring survey that determined Planned Parenthood – West Chester Surgical Center was not in compliance with the requirements of Pennsylvania law. Read more here.
THIS MILITARY HERO WILL NOT BE CANCELED. The family and career of an anonymous and highly decorated U.S. military member are at risk because he dared to peacefully speak out against secret LGBTQ programming in his children’s public school. Read more here.
FEDERAL APPEALS COURT VICTORY FOR PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT FIRED FOR RELIGIOUS BELIEFS. A federal appeals court reversed a lower district court ruling that had removed physician assistant Valerie Kloosterman’s case out of court and into arbitration, and now First Liberty can seek justice for her over termination from the University of Michigan Health System because of her religious beliefs. Read more here.
STANDING WITH TEACHERS OF FAITH: ACLJ DEFENDS STACI BARBER’S RELIGIOUS LIBERTY IN COURT. Staci Barber, a teacher at Cardiff Junior High in Texas, faced an unconscionable choice to either abandon her faith or risk her career when the principal banned a “See You at the Pole” prayer event. Read more here.
POLISH BISHOPS URGE PARENTS TO BOYCOTT NEW SEX ED CLASSES. Poland’s Catholic Church has appealed to parents not to allow their children to take part in a new school program that will include anti-family elements of sex education and gender ideology, which will “morally corrupt children.” Read more here.
EDUCATION DEPT. PROBES SCHOOL DISTRICT ACCUSED OF FORCING STUDENTS TO TAKE SEXUAL SURVEY DESPITE PARENT OPT-OUTS. The U.S. Department of Education has launched an investigation into a Massachusetts school district over allegations students were forced to take a sexually explicit survey, despite their parents opting them out. Read more here.
THIS TRUTH BOMB ON TRANS VIOLENCE IS A MUST WATCH, by Matt Margolis. “The nation was left reeling Wednesday after a tragic shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis, where a gunman killed two young children and injured several others. Authorities later identified the shooter as a transgender-identifying male with radical left-wing views—a detail the media was quick to downplay. Sadly, this has become an all-too-familiar pattern.” Read more here.
THEM BEFORE US: THE NEEDS OF BABIES SHOULD MATTER MORE THAN THE DESIRES OF ADULTS, by Valerie Hudson. “In this age of pervasive alienation and loneliness, it is worth remembering the root of all human connection and the template for human love: that is, the mother-child dyad. That connection begins in the womb, and modern science has brought to light the many different forms in which the in utero connection manifests itself, whether in epigenetics, microchimerism or a dozen other ways.” Read more here.
WHERE HAVE ALL THE BABIES GONE? U.S. POPULATION CHANGES, by Lois M. Collins. “The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released yet another demographic report showing that people in the U.S. are having fewer babies — a trend holding true in much of the world. According to the latest National Vital Statistics report released Wednesday, the number of U.S. births fell 10% overall between 2010 and 2023, though there were periodic fluctuations.” Read more here.
AFRICANS/EUROPEANS FEUD OVER UN STRATEGIC PLAN, by Stefano Gennarini. “A war of words broke out during a UN meeting to approve the three-year strategic plan for the UN Population Fund (UNFPA). It pitted Africans against Europeans and Nordics. Africans complained that UNFPA’s uses ‘sexual and reproductive health’ concepts to promote issues not agreed upon like abortion, sexual rights for children, and gender ideology. Europeans and Nordic countries insisted these issues are essential to the work of the agency.” Read more here.
GENDER-CRITICAL ACADEMICS MUST PUT THEIR HEADS ABOVE THE PARAPET, by Connie Shaw. “Earlier this week, the Daily Mail reported that University College London (UCL) is continuing to allow men into women’s toilets and changing rooms. I struggled to understand why this was news – after all, it’s no secret that universities across the UK are proudly ignoring April’s Supreme Court ruling, which affirmed the right of women to have single-sex spaces. No, what struck me most was that all the UCL academics the Mail spoke to chose to remain anonymous.” Read more here.
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