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 24, 2025

STUDY FINDS BIRTHS INCREASED 2.8% IN STATES WITH ABORTION BANS AFTER REVERSAL OF ROE V. WADE. Abortion bans allowed to take effect after Roe v. Wade’s 2022 reversal increased anticipated birth rates by 2.8 percent in the affected states, according to a new study by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Read more here.

 

CANADIAN MAN FOUND GUILTY OF MURDERING GIRLFRIEND WHO REFUSED ABORTION. Wazhir Gafoor was found guilty of first-degree murder in a case of abortion coercion. The body of his girlfriend, Christina Yadram, was found in woodland in 2021, and DNA found on the scene was traced back to him. Read more here.

 

ABORTIONIST FACES LAWSUIT FOR LEAVING HALF OF BABY’S BODY INSIDE MOTHER IN BOTCHED ABORTION. A medical negligence lawsuit filed against a Champaign, Illinois abortionist alleges he left half of an unborn baby inside a woman’s body after a botched abortion, causing her to undergo emergency surgery. Read more here.

 

MAN IN CUSTODY FOR KILLING HIS PREGNANT TEENAGE GIRLFRIEND WHO REFUSED ABORTION. A 19-year-old Kenyan man is in custody after allegedly murdering his 16-year-old classmate because she refused to abort their child. Read more here.

 

ICE CREAM GIANT BEN & JERRY’S CELEBRATES NATIONAL ABORTION PROVIDER APPRECIATION DAY IN ‘DISGUSTING’ ONLINE CAMPAIGN. Ben & Jerry’s celebrated National Abortion Provider Appreciation Day on March 10 with a post on X that subsequently went viral, stating that the ice cream company “stand[s] with abortion providers today and every day”. Read more here.

TRANS EUROPEAN TRAVELERS WARNED ABOUT TRAVEL TO U.S. AMID TRUMP ‘TWO-SEXES’ ORDER. Finland, Denmark, the U.K. and Germany are all urging cautionary planning for transgender people when traveling to the U.S. and applying for a visa. Read more here.

 

BILL BANNING MEN FROM WOMEN’S SHOWERS, SPACES IN JAILS SIGNED INTO LAW IN MISSISSIPPI. The legislation, dubbed the Dignity and Safety for Incarcerated Women’s Act, prohibits men who self-identify as transgender women from accessing women’s changing rooms, restrooms, showers, sleeping quarters, and other facilities. Read more here.

 

SOUTH DAKOTA GOVERNOR SIGNS BILL TO KEEP MEN OUT OF GIRLS’ LOCKER ROOMS, RESTROOMS. South Dakota Gov. Larry Rhoden signed three bills into law reflecting the values of the state, including one law that will prevent males from entering girls’ restrooms or locker rooms in any public school or public building. Read more here.

 

‘IT’S CRIMINAL!’ LAWMAKER WANTS TO DEFUND SCHOOL THAT FORCED GIRLS TO SHARE LOCKER ROOM WITH BOY. Rep. Mary Miller (R-IL) is calling for the federal government to defund an Illinois school district that allegedly forced middle school girls to change clothes in front of a boy in a girls locker room. Read more here.

 

SCHOOL SENDING SECOND-GRADERS ON GENDER JUSTICE FIELD TRIP. New Jersey parents are demanding answers after Fleetwood Elementary School, in Mount Laurel, scheduled a field trip for second-graders to visit the Alice Paul Center for Gender Justice and refused to allow parent chaperones to attend the event. Read more here.

 

ET TU, OXFORD? LATIN CEREMONY GETS ‘NON-BINARY’ MAKEOVER. Oxford University intends to make an 800-year-old Latin ceremony gender-neutral for the sake of students who claim to be “non-binary,” pending approval by the university’s governing body. Read more here.

 

TEXAS PUBLIC SCHOOL OFFICIALS ACCUSED OF TREATING FEMALE STUDENT AS BOY. Attorneys are seeking answers from a Texas school district over an alleged attempt by school officials to repeatedly identify a teenage girl by using a masculine name and male pronouns against the parents’ wishes. Read more here.

HOUSE BILL 798 COULD AMEND MONTANA CONSTITUTION FOR SAME-SEX MARRIAGE RIGHTS. House Bill 798 would amend the state’s constitution to provide a state right to same-sex marriage by attempting to repeal Article 13 Section 7, which currently states that only a marriage between one man and one woman is recognized in Montana. Read more here.

DISNEY INVESTORS VOTE TO REMAIN IN LGBTQ RANKING INDEX. Disney shareholders rejected an investor proposal to withdraw participation in the Human Rights Campaign’s corporate equity index, which rates workplaces on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer equality. Read more here.

MORE THAN A DOZEN PLANNED PARENTHOOD EMPLOYEES MADE MORE MONEY THAN DR. FAUCI. The highest-paid employees at numerous affiliates that belong to the tax-exempt nonprofit known as Planned Parenthood made more money than Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, according to figures supplied The American Life League. Read more here.

 

PLANNED PARENTHOOD CORPORATION ‘HOPES’ TO EXPAND ‘GENDER AFFIRMING CARE’ FOR MINORS. Planned Parenthood, described by staff as one of the top U.S. providers of so-called “transgender” or “gender affirming care,” has been steeped in the idea of population control since its founding, and is now grooming children to accept transgender ideology. Read more here.

DIOCESE OF SPRINGFIELD, PRO-LIFE PREGNANCY CENTER SUE ILLINOIS STATE OFFICIALS. On behalf of the Diocese of Springfield and an Illinois pro-life pregnancy center, Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys filed a federal lawsuit challenging a state law that forces religious organizations to hire employees who violate their religious beliefs on reproductive issues like abortion. 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.

ADOPTIONS HAVE INCREASED 3 PERCENT, MORE CHILDREN WILL BE ADOPTED THANKS TO ABORTION BANS. A new study has revealed that domestic adoptions of American children increased by over 3 percent in the U.S. between 2019 and 2022, which may be due in part to increased restrictions on international adoptions put in place by countries like China and Ukraine. Read more here.

DYLAN MULVANEY GETS A DOSE OF TRUTH, by Kimberly Ross. “Ever since he burst onto the scene, Dylan Mulvaney, a biological male, has been a poster child for the transgender movement. Except that Mulvaney is not interested in the ‘live and let live’ mentality. Instead, the social media influencer is determined to rub his ideology in our faces. His popular ‘Days of Girlhood’ TikTok series documenting the transition process, which thrust Mulvaney into the spotlight, is just one example. It’s one thing if a person desires to live as the opposite sex with no expectation for the rest of society to show vocal support. It’s another thing altogether if they believe they are the opposite sex while demanding others accept their attempt at ‘womanface.’” Read more here.

 

APOSTLES OF THE NO-KID MOVEMENT ARE CRAFTING AN UNLIVABLE WORLD, by Hélène de Lauzun. “The ‘no-kid’ trend—that idea that a woman, to truly flourish and be free, should refrain from having children—has become, in France as elsewhere, a real mania. Young women publish an increasing number of essays, more or less inspired, in which they try to convince themselves and others that the world would be so much better if we did not reproduce. The press piles on, explaining with a lot of statistical arguments why it is not a good idea to have kids.” Read more here.

 

TRUMP ADMIN CUTS FUNDING OF AUSTRALIAN UNIVERSITIES THAT PROMOTE GENDER IDEOLOGY, by Jonathon Van Maren. “According to the Guardian, the U.S. government has cut off research funding at six Australian universities, including Monash University, Australian National University, the University of Melbourne, the University of Sydney, the University of South Wales, and the University of Western Australia. The reason? The Trump administration has informed researchers that the ‘temporary’ funding pause was due to the new U.S. policy of avoiding ‘DEI, woke gender ideology, and the green new deal.’” Read more here.

 

OHIO COULD BE THE NEXT STATE TO PROTECT KIDS ONLINE, UNLESS THE PORN INDUSTRY GETS ITS WAY, by Logan Washburn. “Ohio could become the next state to protect children from obscene content online if legislation introduced last month becomes law. ‘We’re just trying to protect kids who are in the state of Ohio from adult content and the prevalence of obscene material in our society,’ Republican state Rep. Josh Williams told The Federalist. ‘The idea is to make sure that parents have a voice in the room when it comes down to what their children are exposed to on a daily basis.’” Read more here.