Family Watch Newswire

October 10, 2025

PRIME MINISTER OF SPAIN CALLS FOR DRACONIAN ‘BLACKLIST’ OF DOCTORS WHO REFUSE TO PERFORM ABORTIONS. Shortly after vowing to make abortion a constitutional right in Spain, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez of the Socialist Party is now seeking to publicly name and blacklist doctors who refuse to intentionally kill preborn human beings. Read more here.

TEXAS AG PAXTON BUSTS ILLEGAL ABORTION CLINIC RING. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced the arrests of eight individuals in a sweeping crackdown on a network of unlicensed abortion centers in the Houston area. Read more here.

JUDGE DISMISSES LAWSUIT CHALLENGING PRO-ABORTION MICHIGAN AMENDMENT. A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit challenging a Michigan amendment that enshrined the right to abortion in the state’s constitution, declaring the plaintiffs had no standing to sue. Read more here.

LOUISIANA SUES FDA TO STOP ILLEGAL ABORTION PILLS FROM FLOODING THE STATE. Louisiana sued the Food and Drug Administration, charging that the agency’s 2023 policy allowing mail-order abortion drugs has unleashed a torrent of illegal shipments into the pro-life state, enabling coercion, abuse and the deaths of countless unborn children while endangering women’s health. Read more here.

MISSOURI AMENDMENT ON 2026 BALLOT WILL BAN ABORTIONS, SAVE BABIES. Judge Daniel Green ruled that the rewrite of the 2026 Amendment 3 ballot language and summary by Secretary of State Denny Hoskins are sufficient to inform the general public the truth about what they will be voting on in 2026, which is to ensure protections for women, children and babies in reference to abortion. Read more here.

CALIFORNIA PREGNANCY CENTERS APPEAL FREE SPEECH CASE TO 9TH CIRCUIT. Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys seeking to protect the National Institute of Family and Life Advocates right to inform women about how supplemental progesterone can reverse the effects of abortion drugs have presented their case to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. Read more here.

VICTORY: COURT DISMISSES RADICAL ABORTION GROUP’S LAWSUIT TO OVERTURN MISSOURI’S PARENTAL CONSENT LAW. In a decisive victory for life, parental rights and the rule of law, a Missouri court has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a radical abortion group that sought to overturn the state’s commonsense parental consent law. Read more here.

JUDGE RULES NORTH DAKOTA CAN BAN TRANSGENDER MUTILATION OF CHILDREN. South Central District Court Judge Jackson Lofgren ruled that North Dakota’s ban on underage ‘gender transitions’ does not violate the state constitution, noting concerns about the risks they pose to children. Read more here.

SWEDEN: TRANSGENDER ‘MERMAID’ ACCUSES LOCAL POOL OF ‘DISCRIMINATION’ AFTER BEING BANNED FROM WOMEN’S CHANGING ROOM. A trans-identified male in Linköping, Sweden, filed a complaint with the country’s Discrimination Ombudsman after being told he was not allowed to use the women’s changing room at the Tinnerbäcksbadet swimming pool.
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REPORT: PITTSBURGH HOSPITALS ACCUSED OF LYING TO MAKE INSURANCE COVER HORMONES FOR TRANSING CHILDREN. A Pittsburgh hospital may reportedly have been involved in “fraudulent billing practices” uncovered as President Donald Trump’s administration reviews medical facilities that provided transgender services to children. Read more here.

FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE TO DITCH BEN FRANKLIN FOR ‘GENDER-NEUTRAL’ MASCOT. The Mascot Working Group at Franklin & Marshall College, a private institution in Pennsylvania named after Benjamin Franklin and former U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Marshall, is making plans to replace its two namesake mascots with one that is more “gender-neutral.” Read more here.

TEXAS CONSERVATIVES DEFEND DECISION FOR DEI AUDIT OF UT SYSTEM’S GENDER STUDIES COURSES. A recently announced audit of the University of Texas System’s gender studies course has academic freedom advocates sounding the alarm and conservatives defending a broader agenda for accountability and reform under a recently passed anti-DEI law. Read more here.

TOP DOCTORS KNEW ‘SEX CHANGE’ RESEARCH WAS ‘SHODDY’ YET STILL PUSHED THEM ON CHILDREN. Private emails from the leaders of a clinic at the University of California San Francisco expose how ideology and consensus, rather than science, has undergirded the explosive growth of the child “sex change” industry. Read more here.

COURT RULES FLORIDA SCHOOL BOARD CAN REMOVE CHILDREN’S BOOK PROMOTING SAME-SEX MARRIAGE. A federal judge recently ruled that Florida’s Escambia County School Board can remove a penguin-themed children’s book depicting “same-sex marriage” from its libraries and that such action does not violate the First Amendment. Read more here.

MAJORITY OF COURT APPEARS SKEPTICAL OF COLORADO’S ‘CONVERSION THERAPY’ BAN. The Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared largely sympathetic to a Colorado licensed counselor who is challenging the state’s ban on conversion therapy – that is, treatment intended to change a client’s sexual orientation or gender identity – for young people. Read more here.

UMINN HOSTS ‘TRANS AND QUEER STRENGTH GROUP’ LED BY ‘CERTIFIED QUEER PERSONAL TRAINER.’ The University of Minnesota’s Recreation and Wellness Center has started offering a “Trans and Queer Strength Group” for LGBTQ students on campus, and the class is hosted by a “certified queer personal trainer.” Read more here.

WEISS MAKES LGBT HISTORY AT CBS NEWS. Bari Weiss has become the first openly LGBT journalist to lead a major network newsroom, assuming the role as editor in chief of CBS News. Read more here.

JUDGE SAYS TRUMP CAN’T BLOCK GRANTS TO PLANNED PARENTHOOD PROGRAMS PUSHING SEX ON KIDS. A federal judge blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to withhold millions in taxpayer-funded grants from Planned Parenthood affiliates to stop its agenda of pushing sex on kids. Read more here.

PLANNED PARENTHOOD CLOSES A MEMPHIS CLINIC AFTER TRUMP ADMINISTRATION STOPS MEDICAID PAYMENTS. Planned Parenthood has temporarily closed one of two Memphis clinics as the result of a federal appeals court decision that allowed the Trump administration to block patients from using Medicaid as their insurance at the abortion center. Read more here.

REVISED CHINESE LAW SPARKS DEBATE ON SEXUALITY EDUCATION. Minutes before Professor Liu Wenli was set to speak in a webinar on the development of sex education in China, she learned that the country’s top legislative body had passed an amendment making sex education mandatory starting next year with the amended law mandating inclusion in school syllabuses of “sex education.” Read more here.

CHILDREN IN CHARGE? THE EU IS PUSHING SELF-IDENTIFICATION FOR KIDS, by Lauren Smith. “Brussels has completely lost its mind over trans ideology. Under a new EU proposal, children could be allowed to choose their own gender, regardless of age. According to the ‘LGBTIQ+ equality strategy 2026-2030,’ the European Commission intends to ‘facilitate exchanges of best practices among member states to support the development of legal gender-recognition procedures based on self-determination that are free from age restrictions.’ In other words, children should be free to declare themselves transgender or nonbinary at whatever age they please, and the adults around them should take their new identities at face value.” Read more here.

PRESSURED BY TRANSGENDER ACTIVISTS, STAR ACADEMIC BACKS OUT OF HIS OWN RESEARCH, by Benjamin Ryan. “A renowned Canadian researcher has bowed to a pressure campaign by transgender activists who have sought to blunt the impact of research they consider a threat to minors’ access to medical gender treatments. The scholar, evidence-based medicine expert Dr. Gordon Guyatt, led his junior academic colleagues in collectively jumping ship as coauthors, in a leading medical journal, of a pending paper on this controversial subject.” Read more here.

PEOPLE ARE WAKING UP TO THE GENDER MEDICINE SCAM, by Andrea Mew. “For years, people have been gaslit into silence, told that questioning “gender-affirming care” made them bigots, that acknowledging biological sex made them hateful, and that protecting children from divisive ideology made them dangerous. But this year, something changed, and it’s seismic.” Read more here.

THE RAINBOW PEOPLE ARE NOT GOING TO LEAVE YOUR KIDS ALONE, by Nathanael Blake. “The rainbow people won’t leave the kids alone. We were told that the LGBT movement was about adults — giving everyone equal rights and getting the government out of the bedrooms of consenting adults. But this was a lie; LGBT activists were always coming for the children.” Read more here.

PERSPECTIVE: IS MARRIAGE REALLY A COIN-TOSS? DEPENDS ON WHAT KIND OF MARRIAGE, by Jason Carollo. “Many people today now see marriage as fragile and unpredictable. I often ask my students, ‘How many of you have heard that there is a 50% divorce rate in our society?’ Nearly every hand in every class goes up. Because they have heard statistics like this, far too many people mistakenly believe that their own chances for marriage success are a 50-50 coin toss — and there is nothing they can do about it. Is this true? Is marriage fragile and unpredictable? My answer to this question is ‘What kind of marriage are you talking about?’” Read more here.

IS ABORTION A POVERTY ISSUE?, by the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children. “Why do women have abortions? A lack of financial resources is often claimed to be the reason that the majority of women choose abortion. However, in a new paper commissioned by SPUC, Dr Greg Pike finds that the link between poverty and abortion is not so simple. …When we look at abortion figures, which show women living in the most deprived areas of England and Wales have nearly twice as many abortions as those living in wealthier areas, we naturally tend to think that their poor financial situation is the dominant reason. But it would be wrong to jump to that conclusion.” Read more here.

SOCIAL MEDIA PUSHES PORNOGRAPHY ON CHILDREN WITHIN MINUTES, REPORT FINDS, by Jonathon Van Maren. “Social media is now one of the primary pipelines to porn addiction for both children and young adults. Global Witness, a campaign organization that investigates the impact of Big Tech on human rights, recently conducted a number of tests to determine how quickly children could access pornography on social media platforms. According to the Guardian, Global Witness conducted one test before the implementation of the U.K.’s Online Safety Act in July, and one after. In just a few clicks, TikTok directed children’s accounts to pornography.” Read more here.

AT BOISE STATE: BOYS SHOULD COMPETE AGAINST BOYS, by Terence P. Jeffrey. “On March 20, 2020, Gov. Brad Little, R-Idaho, signed the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act. It included a simple, straightforward rule: ‘Athletic teams or sports designated for females, women, or girls shall not be open to students of the male sex.’ The law made clear that it was referring to ‘the student’s biological sex.’ Thus, the law would prevent a 6-foot, 7-inch, 310-pound offensive lineman on the Boise State men’s football from also playing on the women’s soccer team.” Read more here.

LGBT HISTORY MONTH: FROM MARGINALIZATION TO DOMINATION, by Ryan Bomberger. “How many months out of the year need to be focused on you before you’re no longer ‘marginalized’? October has been dubbed (by some, including Democratic Presidents Obama and Biden) ‘LGBT History Month.’ This is the third full month devoted to all things LGBTQIA+++++. June, of course, is ‘Pride Month’ and March is ‘Bisexual Health Awareness Month.’ One single official ‘Gay Pride Day’ on June 22, 1975, in Washington D.C. has metastasized into a colossal calendar whose growth knows no bounds. It’s activism also has no use for the truth.” Read more here.

EUROS BRING ABORTION TO SECURITY COUNCIL, by Stefano Gennarini. “Liberal Western governments pledged to make abortion and feminism a central component of global security policy at the UN Security Council on Monday. A representative of the European Union said the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda is ‘central’ to the EU Gender Action Plan, which includes the promotion of ‘sexual and reproductive health and rights.’ Nordic Countries praised the UN system for promoting sexual and reproductive health and rights in humanitarian programming.” Read more here.

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