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.
September 19, 2025
STUDY: WOMEN MORE LIKELY TO HAVE GRIEF THAN RELIEF AFTER ABORTION. A new study from the Elliot Institute comparing women who had miscarriages or other natural pregnancy losses to women who had abortions found that both sets reported comparable levels of grief, depression, and anxiety. However, the women who’d had abortions reported much higher levels of guilt, shame, and regret. Read more here.
CALIFORNIA PASSES BILL MAKING IT EASIER FOR MINORS TO GET ABORTIONS WITHOUT PARENTS’ KNOWLEDGE. The California Legislature gave final approval to the Family Preparedness Plan Act of 2025 that will make it vastly easier for minors seeking abortions to do so behind their parents’ backs by expanding the range of non-parent “caregivers” who could assume authority over medical decisions. Read more here.
TOP DOCTOR SPREADS FALSE CLAIM THAT ABORTION PILL CANNOT BE REVERSED. Diane Francoeur, a pro-abortion doctor, falsely claims that the abortion pill is irreversible despite evidence showing abortion pill reversal has saved thousands of unborn children. Read more here.
ABORTION PILL KILLS WOMAN, CAUSED SEPSIS THAT TOOK HER LIFE. Rheanna Laderoute was 19 when she discovered that she was pregnant, and at a women’s health clinic in Brampton, she was prescribed the abortion pill Mifegymiso. She experienced heavy bleeding and severe abdominal pain for two weeks, became septic and died. Read more here.
WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION ADDS ABORTION PILLS TO ‘ESSENTIAL MEDICINES’ LIST. The World Health Organization added mifepristone and misoprostol to this list, which are used to chemically end the lives of babies in the womb despite reported dangers of chemical abortions and just weeks after a Canadian teenager died following a chemical abortion. Read more here.
TEXAN AIMS TO GIVE BABIES FACING ABORTION A CHANCE TO LIVE. Texas State Rep. August Pfluger is working to give babies who face being aborted a “second chance at life,” introducing a bill requiring abortion pill providers to inform women that it is possible to reverse the effects of the drug if they change their mind about abortion. Read more here.
PRO-LIFE AUSTRALIAN GROUP MOURNS ‘A QUARTER OF THE NEXT GENERATION’ LOST TO ABORTION. The pro-life group Love Australia says that with 88,000 abortions in the nation each year, a quarter of the next generation of Australians are missing, and it is commemorating the 2019 decriminalization of abortion in New South Wales with an annual walk for life to draw awareness to the human cost of abortion. Read more here.
SEX TESTS BROUGHT IN AFTER DATA SHOWED 50-60 DSD ATHLETES IN FINALS, WORLD ATHLETICS SAYS. Between 50 and 60 athletes who went through male puberty have been finalists in the female category in global and continental track and field championships since 2000, according to a senior World Athletics official. Read more here.
TRUMP URGES SUPREME COURT TO BACK PASSPORT GENDER RULES. President Donald Trump’s administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court to allow it to block the issuance of passports that reflect the gender identities of transgender and nonbinary Americans. Read more here.
TRANSGENDER MINISTER TO SKIP U.S. TRADE MISSION. Belgium’s first transgender minister, Petra De Sutter, won’t attend an upcoming U.S. trade mission in protest against President Donald Trump’s policies, which allegedly target trans people. Read more here.
UC SAN DIEGO FORCES STUDENTS TO AFFIRM GENDER IDEOLOGY IN MANDATORY TRAINING OR RISK LOSING CLASS ENROLLMENT. Students at the University of California, San Diego are facing mandatory student training requiring them to agree that refusing to use a transgender person’s preferred name or pronouns, or objecting to their use of bathrooms matching their gender identity, constitutes a ‘‘hostile environment’’ and is classified as prohibited conduct. Read more here.
TEXAS A&M PRESIDENT WELSH RESIGNS AFTER GENDER LESSON BACKLASH. Texas A&M University President Mark Welsh is stepping down after a professor taught “gender ideology.” during a class on his watch. Read more here.
SCOTUS TO REVIEW LAWS REGARDING MALES IN FEMALE SPORTS. Liberty Counsel filed an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in two consolidated landmark sports cases, Little v. Hecox and West Virginia v. B.P.J, each centered on whether states may lawfully ban gender-confused males from participating in female sports. Read more here.
‘THAT MUST STOP’; FORMER OLYMPIC SWIMMER JOINS FIGHT AGAINST TRANSGENDER PARTICIPATION IN WOMEN’S SPORTS. Former swimming star Sharron Davies is launching a new group to fight against men participating in women’s sports, threatening to potentially file a lawsuit. Read more here.
COURT ALLOWS CASE AGAINST MICHIGAN SCHOOL THAT HID ‘SOCIAL TRANSITION’ FROM PARENTS TO MOVE FORWARD. The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan allowed the Alliance Defending Freedom case Mead v. Rockford Public School District to move forward on Dan and Jennifer Mead’s claims that the school district violated the couple’s parental rights by treating their middle-school daughter as a “boy” without their knowledge or consent and taking steps to conceal these actions. Read more here.
CANADIAN MOM BARRED FROM SCHOOL PROPERTY FOR CRITICIZING TEACHER’S PRO-LGBT SHIRT. A Canadian mom named Bryony Dixon has been barred from the property of the school her son attends after objecting to a teacher wearing a transgender pride flag shirt at school. Read more here.
ANALYSIS SHOWS PLANNED PARENTHOOD IS JUST AN ABORTION BUSINESS, VERY LITTLE LEGIT HEALTH CARE. New analysis from the Charlotte Lozier Institute pushes back against abortion advocates’ claim that Planned Parenthood is “irreplaceable” and that alternative providers cannot absorb its entire Medicaid client base, showing that even without the nation’s largest abortion chain, women across the country have access to health care via alternative providers. Read more here.
PLANNED PARENTHOOD INSTRUCTS TEENS HOW TO SECRETLY GET TRANS HORMONES. Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion company, is expanding its reach into selling trans hormones by instructing teenagers on evading parental consent and medical safeguards. Read more here.
OREGON DEMOCRATS SLAM PLANNED PARENTHOOD DEFUNDING, WANT MORE BABIES ABORTED. In a press statement, the Oregon House Majority Office announced that House Democrats plan to create a workgroup including Democratic House and Senate members as well as representatives from Oregon Planned Parenthood affiliates to protect abortion access. Read more here.
DISBANDED GROUP AT CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY DROPS ‘PLANNED PARENTHOOD’ NAME TO RESTART. A student-run ‘reproductive rights’ organization at DePaul University — a Catholic institution — has reopened under a different name after the school shut it down earlier this year due to its affiliation with Planned Parenthood. Read more here.
HIGH SCHOOL COACH FIRED FOR CRITICIZING GENDER IDEOLOGY SENDS LEGAL LETTER TO SCHOOL BOARD. A Canadian high school football coach who was fired for sharing his views opposing transgender ideology on social media in a video discussing his Christian faith sent a legal demand to his former school board demanding he get his job back. Read more here.
MISSISSIPPI’S TEEN BIRTHS CUT IN HALF SINCE TEACHING ABSTINENCE BEGAN. Mississippi’s teen births have decreased from 51 per 1,000 women to 25 per 1,000 since 2011 when abstinence began, though both figures were highest in the nation. Read more here.
VERMONT TO KEEP GENDER TERMS IN SEX ED PROGRAM DESPITE TRUMP THREAT. Vermont officials plan to sidestep a Trump administration demand for states to nix “gender ideology” from a youth sex education program, opting to use state money to counter the threatened loss of over half a million federal dollars. Read more here.
AMERICA’S FERTILITY RATE HITS LOWEST LEVEL IN 90 YEARS. The U.S. fertility rate has plummeted to its lowest level in nearly a century, sparking concern among pro-life advocates about the cultural and societal factors contributing to the decline, including the impact of abortion. Read more here.
ALBERTA RELEASES NEW MANDATE TO KEEP SEXUALLY EXPLICIT BOOKS OUT OF SCHOOL LIBRARIES. Alberta Minister of Education and Childcare Demetrios Nicolaides announced the province’s updated standards that ban sexually explicit books in school libraries. Read more here.
AN APPEAL TO THE NEW POLISH PRESIDENT, by Austin Ruse. “Poland has been a longtime disappointment to the pro-life and pro-family movement at the United Nations. Even when they have had good governments in Warsaw, this has rarely translated into pro-life and pro-family positions at negotiations in New York or Geneva. But Poland has strong pro-life laws domestically, we are told. And this is true. Nonetheless, this has never translated to the UN.” Read more here.
PROTECTED SPECIES, by Sandra Pertot. “Health professionals who practise any version of ‘gender-affirming’ care have been a protected species for more than a decade, unlike those practitioners who express any concern about the medical and surgical treatment of young gender-questioning people or who acknowledge that transwomen are men. Trans advocates are so committed to their position that no comment or disagreement with any aspect of gender ideology is too mild to avoid accusations of bigotry or transphobia—even failure to state your own pronouns.” Read more here.
WE CAN HEAL OUR COUNTRY BY NURTURING FAMILIES, by Daniel Darling. “In the spring of 1965, a little-known assistant secretary of labor, policy, planning, and research in the administration of Lyndon B. Johnson issued an explosive report that would prove to be both controversial in the moment and unquestionably correct half a century later. The report became a lightning rod. The Left, led by radical feminists and others, decried his emphasis on the two-parent family. Moynihan, who later became a US senator, was hung out to dry by the White House, with Johnson quietly abandoning the ideas in the report after delivering a speech in favor of it when it was first released.” Read more here.
TRANSGENDER PROPAGANDA EXPOSES ITS HORRORS EVEN MORE THAN CRITICS DO, by Jonathon Van Maren. “My favorite conspiracy theory – because I invented it myself – is that there is a phalanx of editors within the mainstream media commissioning human interest stories from trans activists for the sole purpose of undermining public support for the LGBT agenda, a conservative fifth column deep within the media matrix. That, at least, is the best theory I can come up with for why the UK Metro – the free newspaper available on public transit – has been publishing a string of stories that seem deliberately designed to provoke a combination of disbelief, chortling, and disgust.” Read more here.
OPPOSING GENDER IDEOLOGY COST ME AND OTHERS MASSIVELY, by Kaeley Harms. “I refuse to be quiet about the silencing and harassment campaigns linked to the trans lobby. I’ve been screaming from the mountaintops about them for fully 10 years now. If you were okay with naked men in girls’ gym locker rooms or violent men raping female inmates in women’s prisons or fetishistic men taking coveted spots in battered women’s shelters… then maybe I’m still shouting into the void. I’m not sure anything I could say beyond this would matter to you. We are not operating on the same wavelength, let alone the same planet.” Read more here.
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