Family Watch Newswire

April 14, 2025

PIERRE POILIEVRE DOUBLES DOWN ON SUPPORT FOR ABORTION ON DEMAND. Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre has affirmed his unwavering commitment to abortion on demand in Canada, throughout all nine months of pregnancy—and this time he extended that commitment. Read more here.

YUCATÁN BECOMES 22ND MEXICAN STATE TO APPROVE PRO-ABORTION LEGISLATION. Mexico’s Yucatán state Congress has approved the decriminalization of abortion up to 12 weeks of gestation, amending the penal code, although the state constitution continues to protect life from the moment of fertilization. Read more here.

CATHOLIC STUDENTS REVOLT AFTER PRO-ABORTION FORMER IRISH PRESIDENT IS INVITED TO SPEAK AT GRADUATION. Students at the all-women’s Saint Mary’s College in Notre Dame, Indiana have rebelled against a decision to invite Dr. Mary McAleese, a pro-abortion former president of Ireland, to give the commencement address and receive a special honor at this year’s graduation ceremony. Read more here.

ILLINOIS PRO-LIFERS WILL APPEAL RULING THAT FORCES DOCTORS TO REFER PATIENTS TO ABORTIONISTS. U.S. District Court Judge Iain D. Johnston determined that aspects of the Illinois Health Care Right of Conscience Act should not be thrown out, ruling the state cannot force pro-life ministries to inform women about abortion, but it can mandate doctors to refer them to abortion providers. Read more here.

PRO-LIFE ACTIVIST SHARES UGLY TRUTH ABOUT ABORTION AT MAJOR UN MEETING. Surrounded by pro-abortion and population control activists, youth coordinator for the Canadian Campaign Life Coalition’s Kim Headley delivered a strong defense of the unborn at a meeting of the United Nations Commission on Population and Development. Read more here.

BILLBOARD CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED IN TEXAS TO COMBAT ABORTION TOURISM IN NEW MEXICO. Life Ministries U.S. has launched a billboard campaign in Texas to combat abortion tourism into New Mexico, strategically placing signs along two separate major roadways in Texas toward its neighbor state to reach women traveling for abortions. Read more here.

LANDMARK PUBERTY BLOCKER DECISION A BLOW TO TRANSGENDER ACTIVISTS. A Family Court judge dealt a blow to transgender activists by giving a father the custody of a boy whose mother was trying to put him on puberty blockers. Justice Andrew Strum’s landmark judgment contains many broad criticisms of gender clinics and how hospitals treat children who question their gender. Read more here.

FEDERAL JUDGE DEMANDS TRUMP RESTORE MAINE FUNDING AMID TRANS SPORTS FIGHT. A federal judge has ordered that the Trump administration must lift its freeze on federal funding to the state of Maine after the administration froze the state’s federal funding over Maine not abiding by a ban of trans-identified athletes in women’s sports. Read more here.

CALIFORNIA HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETE SUES OVER TRANSGENDER TEAM REPLACEMENT. Taylor Starling, a 16-year-old student at Martin Luther King High School in Riverside, California, says she was understandably upset when she found out she’d lost her spot on the girls’ cross-country team to a male who had an impossible physical advantage over her, saying she felt like her hard work was being cast aside because she was a girl. Read more here.

MILITARY ACADEMIES CRITICIZED FOR REMOVING GENDER-RELATED BOOKS FROM LIBRARIES. As a result of President Donald Trump’s executive order “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling,” the U.S. Naval Academy’s Nimitz Library has been stripped of 381 titles exploring gender, among other topics. Read more here.

MOTHER BANNED FROM PLAYGROUND AFTER CHALLENGING UK SCHOOL OVER GENDER LESSONS. Karina Conway raised concerns about what Sunnyside Spencer Academy in Beeston was teaching kids about gender, discovering that children as young as nine were being taught that “transgender identity” is a protected characteristic, and she was ordered to stay away from the playground for eight months. Read more here.

DUTCH TRANSGENDER DARTS PLAYER WINS WOMEN’S SERIES TITLE IN NETHERLANDS. Trans-identified male darts player Noa-Lynn van Leuven has won the women’s Professional Darts Corporation Women’s Series title for the fifth time in the Event 9 final and has also won the Event 10 event. Read more here.

GREEK SUPREME COURT HEARS CASE ON CONSTITUTIONALITY OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGE. Greece’s Supreme Court is hearing a case that challenges the constitutionality of Law 5089/2024, which for the first time recognized marriage between same-sex partners and extended parental rights, including joint adoption. Read more here.

TRUMP STATE DEPT. AXES GLOBAL PRO-LGBTQ PROGRAM. A $25 million dollar program that offered taxpayer funds to promote LGBTQ ideology abroad has been removed from the U.S. State Department website by the Trump administration. Read more here.

DISNEYLAND ANNOUNCES PRIDE NITE: EMBRACING DIVERSITY WITH FAMILY-FRIENDLY FUN. Disneyland’s upcoming “Pride Nite” in June is inviting children age 3 and up to “enjoy an unforgettable and fun-filled evening that recognizes and embraces the LGBTQIA+ community.” Read more here.

BEER GIANT BEHIND CORONA, MODELO CUTS TIES WITH LGBT ACTIVISTS PUSHING CORPORATE DEI POLICIES. Constellation Brands – which owns the rights to sell the Mexican-made beers Corona, Modelo and Pacifico in the U.S. – told employees that it would cease DEI practices, stop working with the LGBT activist group Human Rights Campaign, stop using the term “Latinx,” and end its advocacy for bills like the Equality Act. Read more here.

NEW AUSTRALIAN LAW MAKES CERTAIN PRAYERS ‘UNLAWFUL.’ The Conversion Practices Ban Act 2024 does not prohibit prayer. However, praying with or over a person with the intent to change or suppress their sexuality or gender identity is unlawful, even if that person has asked you to pray for them. Read more here.

‘THEY WALKED ME OUT OF THE SCHOOL LIKE A CRIMINAL’ SAYS CATHOLIC TEACHER WHO’S THREATENED WITH TERMINATION. Marisol Arroyo-Castro, a teacher in the Connecticut public school system for more than 30 years, was walked out of New Britain School District and threatened with termination for displaying a crucifix, but First Liberty is defending her religious freedom rights. Read more here.

SCOUTH CAROLINA RESISTS ACLU ATTEMPT TO SHUTTER RELIGIOUS FOSTER CARE AGENCIES. South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster has asked the U.S. District Court to protect the state’s right to partner with private, faith-based foster care agencies that help place children in foster care in response to the ACLU’s lawsuit seeking to shut down religious foster care agencies. Read more here.

SEX EDUCATION REMOVALS QUADRUPLE IN THE WAKE OF SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT GENDER REFORM DEBATE. The number of children being pulled out of school sex education lessons more than quadrupled in the wake of the gender reform debate. A number of councils also received official complaints from parents for including transgender issues in lessons. Read more here.

THIS NONPROFIT GOT $22 MILLION IN GOVERNMENT GRANTS TO TEACH KIDS ABOUT SEX TOYS. For nearly a decade, the U.S. government gave $22 million to The Center for Innovative Public Health Research for educating minors about sex toys and keeping it secret from their parents. Read more here.

JUDGE REJECTS CALIFORNIA’S ATTEMPT TO DISMISS LAWSUIT AGAINST ANTI-PARENT TRANSGENDER POLICIES. U.S. District Court Judge Roger T. Benitez denied a motion to dismiss a case filed by California’s Superintendent of Public Instruction and the members of the California State Board of Education in Mirabelli v. Olson, the Thomas More Society lawsuit challenging “Parental Exclusion Policies.” Read more here.

BRAZIL’S DOCTORS HIT THE BRAKES, by Bernard Lane. “The Federal Council of Medicine in Brazil has reportedly adopted a more cautious position on gender medicalisation of young people. The council, the main professional association for doctors, has approved a resolution banning puberty blockers for gender-distressed minors, lifting the minimum age for cross-sex hormones to 18, and not allowing transgender surgery that sterilises until 21, according to an April 10 report in Folha de São Paulo.” Read more here.

SOME COMPANIES START GETTING THE MEMO: PRIDE, DEI DON’T PAY, by Michael Reagan. “During the next approximately six short weeks, plus or minus, you’ll be told, no make that lectured to, ad nauseum in the print and broadcast media, that June is PRIDE month. Not to be confused with HIV Is Not a Crime Awareness Day, Transgender Day of Visibility, Asexuality Day, Lesbian Visibility Day, Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia, Harvey Milk Day, International Drag Day, LGVBTQ History Month or National Coming Out Day. In fact, there are so many public observances of sexual, and other alternative lifestyles, one wag on Twitter/X observed they now have their own liturgical calendar!” Read more here.

ONLYFANS STAR’S STORY ILLUSTRATES HOW PORNOGRAPHY HAS NORMALIZED SEX IN YOUNG MINDS, by Jonathon Van Maren. “In my presentations on pornography to parents, I always emphasize one key fact: If you don’t teach your children about healthy sex and sexuality, the internet will. In today’s hypersexualized digital culture in which sexual imagery and information is almost omnipresent, we must teach our children — or the pornographers will. A recent BBC interview with the infamous OnlyFans star Lily Phillips, who made her name through gut-wrenching, horrific stunts such as sleeping with more than 100 men in a single day, makes that fact crystal clear once again.” Read more here.

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