Family Watch Newswire

October 31, 2025

TENNESSEE JUDGES ALLOW CHALLENGE TO STATE’S PRO-LIFE LAW TO MOVE FORWARD. Backed by the American Medical Association, the suit was initially filed in 2023 by a group of OB/GYNs in conjunction with a group of women who experienced medical issues during their pregnancies and now want abortion to be legalized. Read more here.

POLL FINDS 70% OF U.S. VOTERS WANT CHEMICAL ABORTION TO HAVE MORE SAFEGUARDS. The poll, released by McLaughlin & Associates, found seven in 10 voters want to restore protections that were removed by the Biden administration’s Food and Drug Administration for the abortion drug mifepristone. Read more here.

FLORIDA MAN MURDERED GIRLFRIEND FOR REFUSING ABORTION. Donovan Faison was convicted by a jury on charges of first-degree murder after he lured his girlfriend to a remote park and then shot her dead and killed her unborn child after learning she was pregnant. Read more here.

THOUSANDS OF PRO-LIFERS RUN 5,000-MILE RELAY RACE ACROSS AMERICA TO RAISE AWARENESS FOR THE UNBORN. Pro-lifers were cheered across the finish line at Benedictine College, ending this year’s recent LIFE Runners “A-Cross America Relay,” the largest spanning pro-life event with 1,476 legs covering 5,124 miles. Read more here.

OVER 22,000 IN GERMANY ‘CHANGED’ OFFICIAL GENDER AFTER LAW CHANGE. More than 22,000 German citizens have officially changed their gender since a new law facilitating such a step came into effect last year, according to preliminary figures. Read more here.

HARVARD SCRAPS $650 MILLION TRANSGENDER HEALTH COURSE AFTER QUESTIONS OVER ILLEGAL FEE WAIVER. Harvard Medical School recently postponed a $650 million continuing education course on transgender health care after inquiries about the legality of waiving fees for transgender-identifying doctors while charging other medical professionals full price. Read more here.

VIOLENT TRANSGENDER PEDOPHILE RELEASED FROM WOMEN’S PRISON INTO WASHINGTON COMMUNITY, CLASSIFIED AS A ‘FEMALE’ SEX OFFENDER. Jolene Charisma Starr, born Joel Thomas Nichols, a violent transgender pedophile, has been released into the community of Everett, Washington after serving 30 years behind bars for child rape, kidnapping and child molestation – part of it in a women’s prison. Read more here.

INSURANCE FRAUD IS WIDESPREAD IN TRANSGENDER MEDICINE. A common form of potential billing fraud involves use of the diagnosis “Endocrine Disorder Not Otherwise Specified” instead of “Gender Identity Disorders” for patients who do not have or are not being treated for endocrine disorders. Read more here.

WIKIPEDIA PAGE CLAIMS ‘ADULT HUMAN FEMALE’ CONSTITUTES ‘HATE SPEECH.’ A Wikipedia article created earlier this year about the term “adult human female” characterizes it as “hate speech” against transgender individuals. The page was added last month to a navigation box about President Donald Trump’s second term and connects the term to claimed “persecution” of transgender individuals under Trump. Read more here.

GLAMOUR MAGAZINE FILLS ITS ‘WOMEN OF THE YEAR’ COVER WITH MEN. Women’s fashion magazine Glamour UK has chosen a group of nine men, so-called “dolls,” who identify as women for its “Women of the Year” magazine cover. Read more here.

AMERICAN SUPPORT FOR HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAGE DROPS TO 54 PERCENT: NEW POLL. The share of Americans who support same-sex marriage has fallen to 54 percent, according to a new poll, suggesting a backlash to the LGBT extremes of the past decade could be making its way to one of the source issues. Read more here.

BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY OFFERS STUDENTS $2K AWARD TO MAKE ‘SELF-GUIDED TOUR’ OF UNIVERSITY’S ‘QUEER HISTORY.’ In Spring 2026, Binghamton University, in Upstate New York, will offer a paid research opportunity for undergraduate students to document the “queer history” of Binghamton through a self-guided tour. Read more here.

NEW YORK GOV. HOCHUL GIVES PLANNED PARENTHOOD ABORTION BIZ $35 MILLION. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Friday that the state will redirect more than $35 million in taxpayer funds to five Planned Parenthood affiliates operating 47 clinics statewide to offset federal Medicaid cuts. Read more here.

PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN USES LOOPHOLE TO KEEP FEDERAL MEDICAID FUNDS AND PERFORM ABORTIONS. Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin is making use of a loophole in order to keep federal Medicaid funding after the Big Beautiful Bill removed that money for “prohibited entities” for one year. Read more here.

8TH CIRCUIT WEIGHS WHETHER GOVERNMENT BELONGS IN THE COUNSELING ROOM. Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys are at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit on behalf of two Missouri licensed counselors, Wyatt Bury and Pamela Eisenrich, who are challenging ordinances in Kansas City and Jackson County that violate their freedom of speech by censoring private conversations with their clients on gender identity and sexuality. Read more here.

U.S. NOT GOING ALONG WITH U.N. EFFORTS OPPOSING RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, PROTECTION OF THE FAMILY. A U.S. diplomat at the United Nations said: “We will not endorse any language that undermines the inherent and unalienable human rights and fundamental freedoms of individuals in the United States,” committing instead to prioritize violations of human rights, religious freedom and protection of the family. Read more here.

ABORTION DEBATE RESURFACES AT EU, by Iulia-Elena Cazan. “European abortion advocates have gathered more than one million signatures asking the European Union to pay for travel abortions. The idea is that the EU would pay for a Polish woman, for instance, to travel to France for a late-term abortion. Nika Kovač, the representative of the ‘My Voice, My Choice’ petition drive, said, ‘women from Poland have a good network of NGOs which are supporting their travels and medical procedures [for abortion]. But those medical procedures are costly, so what we want to do is to establish a way that NGOs or women themselves do not need to pay for them.’” Read more here.

THE LAST TRIAL OF PÄIVI RÄSÄNEN, by Jonathon Van Maren, “On October 30, Finnish parliamentarian Päivi Räsänen and her co-defendant Bishop Juhana Pohjola faced the [Finnish] Supreme Court. Both face charges of ‘hate speech’ under Finland’s criminal code, which falls under the section dealing with ‘war crimes and crimes against humanity.’ A crowd of supporters gathered at the court to greet Räsänen, who has become an international icon of Christian steadfastness in the face of censorship and malicious prosecution.” Read more here.

HEMINGWAY: IN THE FIGHT TO PROTECT WOMEN’S SPORTS, GIRL DADS NEED TO STEP UP, by The Federalist Staff. “’I kind of wonder when we’re seeing all these stories about trans-identifying men in women’s sports, ‘where are the fathers of these girls to defend them with any action whatsoever?’ asked Federalist Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway during Fox News’ Outnumbered. ‘It’s ridiculous that we expect girls … to handle it when a boy joins their team, but where are the dads? What good is it to be a father if you won’t defend your daughter at a time like this?’” Read more here.

OBAMACARE IS THE LEFT’S TOOL TO PUSH TAXPAYER-FUNDED TRANSGENDER OPERATIONS, by Chris Jacobs. “Lost in the debate over extending enhanced Obamacare subsidies are the specific treatments and services those federal dollars subsidize. President Donald Trump recognized as much recently, posting on social media that Senate Democrats would ‘force Taxpayers to fund Transgender surgery for minors.’ Indeed, continuing enhanced Obamacare subsidies would provide additional taxpayer dollars to insurance plans covering procedures many Americans find morally objectionable.” Read more here.

THE SCANDAL OF ANA CALDAS, AND THE CASE FOR SEX SCREENING IN FEMALE ATHLETICS, by Jonathan Kay. “In 2016, a Portuguese-American athlete named Hannah Caldas participated in the female category of the “Monstar Games,” a large fitness competition held in Rio de Janeiro. …It wasn’t until last week—sixteen and a half years after Caldas first began competing in women’s categories—that anyone in a position of authority in any sport decisively called Caldas to account for masquerading as a female-born athlete.” Read more here.

IT HAPPENED AGAIN: MAN USED GYM’S TRANS-FRIENDLY LOCKER ROOM POLICIES TO SECRETLY FILM WOMEN, by Amy Curtis. “The Left has spent years telling women two contradictory things: 1) all men are rapists, so trust your gut instincts and avoid them at all costs, and 2) you must let men who say they’re women into your locker rooms, lest we label you a bigot. Those same Leftists insist that men would never abuse their laissez-faire locker room policies, and that only ‘trans women’ would access private spaces, because they’re really women. Now we have a case file of men cosplaying as women who have used these lax policies to abuse women.” Read more here.

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