Family Watch Newswire

December 10, 2025

FDA COMMISSIONER MAKARY PROMISES THOROUGH REVIEW OF ABORTION PILL DANGERS. After pro-life advocates called for his resignation for allegedly slow-walking a review of the mifepristone abortion drug until after the 2026 elections, Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary is promising a thorough review of the risks and dangers associated with the abortion pill. Read more here.

STUDY: ABORTIONS CAUSE WOMEN EMOTIONAL DISTRESS EVEN DECADES LATER. A new study suggests that nearly half of American women who have had abortions experience moderate to high levels of emotional distress related to the procedure, with symptoms persisting for decades and unaffected by the passage of time. Read more here.

OHIO DOCTOR CHARGED WITH SIX FELONIES FOR FORCING ABORTION PILL ON WOMAN. A Lucas County Grand Jury indicted Dr. Hassan-James Abbas on six felonies, including felony charges of abduction, unlawful distribution of an abortion-inducing drug, disrupting public services, deception to obtain a dangerous drug, identity fraud and tampering with evidence. Read more here.

SOUTH DAKOTA GOVERNOR AIMS TO STOP OUT OF STATE ADS FOR ABORTION PILLS. Gov. Larry Rhoden urged Attorney General Marty Jackley to investigate a new abortion ad campaign, which appears to conflict with South Dakota’s pro-life stance, and Jackley quickly agreed to pursue the investigation. Read more here.

NEW BOOK AIMED AT 5-YEAR-OLDS CLAIMS ABORTION IS ‘SUPERPOWER.’ The organization known as Shout Your Abortion is promoting a book aimed at children five to eight years old called “Abortion is Everything,” framing abortion as the actualization of a uniquely human superpower that helps humans shape their destinies. Read more here.

FLORIDA SUES 3 TRANS GROOMER GROUPS FOR ‘MUTILATING KIDS AND MISLEADING FAMILIES.’ Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, R-Fla., filed a lawsuit Tuesday against three of the most insidious organizations pushing the mutilation of children in fealty to “transgender” ideology: the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), the Endocrine Society, and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). Read more here.

LOW SUICIDE IDEATION CLAIMS BY NEW STUDY REFUTED. A recent retrospective, uncontrolled chart-review-based study of 432 gender-dysphoric youth (ages 12–20), treated at Children’s Mercy gender clinic in Kansas City, showed highly negative rates of suicidal ideation, but serious concerns about the study’s data collection and analytic approach undermine this interpretation. Read more here.

BRUSSELS AUTHORITIES FACE LEGAL CHALLENGE AFTER ARRESTING INDIVIDUALS EXPRESSING CONCERNS ABOUT PUBERTY BLOCKERS. A UK citizen and Canadian campaigner are seeking compensation after they were arrested by Brussels authorities for peacefully expressing views about the harmful effects of puberty blockers on children. Read more here.

TRUMP SCORES WIN AS DC APPEALS COURT UPHOLDS TRANSGENDER SERVICE LIMITS. The Trump administration scored another appellate-level win as the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals granted the administration’s request for a stay pending appeal of a lower court injunction barring the Trump administration’s new rules on transgender individuals serving in the armed forces. Read more here.

DOJ SUES LOUDOUN COUNTY FOR TRANSGENDER BATHROOM POLICY. The Department of Justice is suing the Loudoun County, Va. school board after the district punished Christian students who oppose sharing bathrooms with students of the other biological sex. Read more here.

MARIE CLAIRE BRAZIL NAMES MALE POLITICIAN ‘WOMAN OF THE YEAR.’ Erika Hilton, a male identifying as a woman, was elected to São Paulo’s municipal government in 2020, and he has been celebrated by international media as being a “symbolic triumph” for transgender people. Read more here.

WASHINGTON SWIM LEAGUE FINDS WORKAROUND TO KEEP BOYS COMPETING IN GIRLS’ EVENTS. A Washington swim league says it has found a procedural workaround it believes will let meets continue under USA Swimming rules while still complying with Washington’s gender-identity laws, effectively allowing athletes to compete based on self-identification, which means boys can keep entering girls’ events despite President Trump’s executive order aimed at keeping men out of women’s sports. Read more here.

FOLLOWING ADF LAWSUIT, HOUSTON SCHOOL DISTRICT RESPECTS PARENTS’ WISHES CONCERNING DAUGHTER. Six months after an Alliance Defending Freedom lawsuit, Houston Independent School District officials agreed to respect the wishes of parents Sarah and Terry Osborn by agreeing to treat their daughter as a girl with female pronouns rather than a boy as the district had been doing. Read more here.

NEARLY HALF OF NETFLIX KIDS’ SHOWS FEATURE LGBT CONTENT. Some 41 percent of children’s shows on Netflix are pushing the LGBT agenda, according to a recently released report by Concerned Women for America. Read more here.

HOLLYWOOD’S DIVERSITY BUBBLE POPS: HALF OF LGBTQ TV CHARACTERS SET TO DISAPPEAR NEXT YEAR. Around 11 percent of television characters are LGBTQ, but the activist Left is warning there’s going to be a sharp decline in that representation in the next television cycle. Read more here.

STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL PRESSURES CITY TO CANCEL CHRISTMAS-THEMED DRAG SHOW. Florida’s attorney general is pressuring the City of Pensacola to cancel an upcoming Christmas-themed drag queen show titled “A Drag Queen Christmas,” which is a touring production performed in several cities. Read more here.

COURT OVERRULES LEFTIST JUDGE, ALLOWS PLANNED PARENTHOOD DEFUNDING TO CONTINUE. The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday overruled a preliminary injunction from liberal U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani, allowing a federal provision to defund the Planned Parenthood abortion business through Medicaid to take effect and continue during ongoing litigation. Read more here.

TRUMP’S BOLD HUMAN RIGHTS SHIFT EXPOSES AUSTRALIA’S HIDDEN ABUSES. State-sponsored abortions, castrating children with drugs and surgery, “hate speech” prosecutions, and other practices will now be considered human rights abuses by the U.S. Department of State. Read more here.

ACLJ FILES FEDERAL LAWSUIT AFTER SEVENTH-GRADE STUDENTS WERE FORCED TO VIEW PORNOGRAPHIC ‘ART’ IN CLASS. The American Center for Law and Justice filed a federal lawsuit after Watertown City School District in New York forced seventh-grade students to view pornographic images during class – over multiple days – without any parental notice, consent or opt-out opportunity. Read more here.

BOY SCOUTS HAVE THEMSELVES TO BLAME FOR LOSING THE PENTAGON’S FAVOR, by Paul Siewers. “A young man I know was a fifth-grade Cub Scout when Scouting’s Boys’ Life magazine arrived in the mail for the first time with girls on the cover. He tossed aside the magazine unread, although he had been an avid reader before. The gender studies era of Scouting’s ‘Great Awokening’ had arrived.” Read more here.

CLASSROOM SEGREGATION IS BACK, THIS TIME ENFORCED BY A ‘GENDER-NONBINARY’ ACTIVIST, by Amy Curtis. “The Left has said for years that education is a right, and one that must be provided by the government. They don’t allow parents to exercise that right by taking tax dollars to put their children in private schools, of course, because that would be ‘unfair’ and ‘harm public schools.’ But when the Left says something is a ‘right,’ what they really mean is ‘we want government to control it, so we can use it as a cudgel against our political opponents.'” Read more here.

BIDEN TELLS LGBT POWER-BROKERS TO ‘KEEP THE FAITH’ BECAUSE ‘WE’RE THE UNITED STATES OF AMERIGOTIT’, by Jonathon Van Maren. “In a profane, a gaffe-ridden speech at the International LGBQ+ Leaders Conference in Washington, D.C. on Friday, the ailing former President Joe Biden once again declared his allegiance to the LGBT cause. Biden was receiving an award for pushing the LGBT agenda during his administration, and condemned President Trump’s rollback of his presidential activism. … ‘All of us are dismayed by the present state of the union,’ Biden claimed. ‘This is not time to give up. Get up and fight back.’” Read more here.

MASSACHUSETTS ALLOWS BOYS TO COMPETE IN GIRLS’ SPORTS, AND HERE’S THE DAMAGE THAT’S DONE, by Amy Curtis. “Last month, Townhall reported how Massachusetts ‘grossly misinterpreting’ Title IX led to boys — not ‘trans identifying boys’ but boys — to participate in girls’ sports. That meant boys were helping teams cheat their way to state championships. It also means many girls have been denied the ability to succeed in athletics. And if you thought this was a recent phenomenon, it’s not.” Read more here.

THE LATEST ATTEMPT TO DISPROVE THE SEX BINARY FALLS FLAT, by Colin Wright. “Over the past decade, a wave of pseudoscientific papers has tried to dismantle one of biology’s most fundamental truths: that there are only two sexes—male and female. These papers often claim that viewing sex as binary isn’t just outdated, but oppressive, and that it’s more accurate to say sex exists on a broad and continuous “spectrum.” Read more here.

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