Family Watch Newswire

September 9, 2026

PRO-LIFERS SEEK TO REPEAL MASSACHUSETTS’ RADICAL NEW ABORTION LAW. Massachusetts Citizens for Life and Massachusetts Family Action have wasted no time in launching an effort to repeal the state’s radical new pro-abortion law, hoping to put the question before voters in 2028. Read more here.

5TH CIRCUIT COURT TO DECIDE WHETHER MAIL-ORDER ABORTIONS CAN FLOW INTO PRO-LIFE STATES. In a hearing at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit in New Orleans in the case of State of Louisiana v. U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Louisiana asked the court to require the FDA to restore the in-person dispensing requirement for the abortion drug mifepristone. Read more here.

ALMOST 50 PERCENT OF AMERICANS HAVE SAFETY CONCERNS WITH ABORTION PILL. Fifty-one percent of Americans support distributing abortion pills by mail according to a new poll, contradicting another recent poll indicating the opposite and forecasting the difficult road ahead for reshaping U.S. public opinion on life. Read more here.

ABORTION ACTIVIST TELLS WOMAN SHE WILL GET ‘CHARLIE KIRKED’ FOR PROTESTING ABORTION. A leftist defending abortion on a college campus told a Christian woman she would “get Charlie Kirked” if she kept speaking up for unborn children. Read more here.

MAJOR BLUE STATE HOSPITAL PULLS PLUG ON CONTROVERSIAL CHILD TRANSGENDER TREATMENTS AFTER DOJ INTERVENTION. Mount Sinai, one of the largest hospitals in New York City, will stop providing sex reassignment procedures to minors after entering an agreement with the Trump administration. Read more here.

FORMER COLLEGE SOCCER PLAYER TAKES ON NIKE OVER ‘GENDER TRANSITION’ SURGERIES FOR MINORS. Sophia Lorey, an alumnus of The Vanguard University, addressed Nike shareholders on behalf of a proposal from the Christian investment firm Inspire Investing that calls for greater scrutiny of the sneaker giant’s charitable partnerships, focusing on its relationship with the Human Rights Campaign and arguing the company’s support for the LGBTQ advocacy organization clashes with its marketing of women’s athletics. Read more here.

PARENTS URGE U.S. SUPREME COURT TO ALLOW SUIT CHALLENGING WASHINGTON STATE LAW THAT REVOKES RIGHTS REGARDING RUNAWAY KIDS. An initial brief has been filed at the Supreme Court of the United States on behalf of a group of parents urging the Justices to reverse a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit that prevents parents from challenging Washington state laws that strip parents of their rights if they refuse to affirm their runaway child’s claimed “gender identity.” Read more here.

NEW JERSEY SCHOOL DISTRICT SUED FOR ALLOWING KIDS TO ‘CHANGE GENDER’ ON SCHOOL RECORDS WITHOUT PARENTS KNOWING. The controversial Chathams School District policy also keeps parents in the dark when giving students access to bathrooms and locker rooms based on what gender they identify with. Read more here.

PACE UNIVERSITY AUTOMATICALLY ENROLLS STUDENTS IN $4,288 PLAN COVERING ‘GENDER AFFIRMING CARE.’ Students may waive the insurance requirement if they demonstrate comparable coverage, but if they do not request a waiver, students are automatically enrolled. Read more here.

‘MISGENDERING’ IS ‘VIOLENT,’ WEST CHESTER U. LGBT CENTER SAYS. It is “harmful” and “violent” to refer to someone by their true sex, according to a guidance sheet from West Chester University’s “Center for Trans and Queer Advocacy.” Read more here.

DOZENS OF PRO-LIFE GROUPS ASK PRESIDENT TRUMP TO DEFUND PLANNED PARENTHOOD. Nearly 40 pro-life and pro-family groups called on the Trump administration to defund the Planned Parenthood abortion business and to cut it off from receiving federal taxpayer money. Read more here.

WASHINGTON FATHER SUES SCHOOL DISTRICT FOR DENYING RELIGIOUS OPT-OUT FROM LGBTQ INSTRUCTION. Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys filed a federal lawsuit against the Lake Washington School District on behalf of Konstantin Averkiev, a Washington father who has repeatedly asked to opt his son out of LGBTQ instruction only to be refused. Read more here.

INVADING THE DOMAIN OF SCIENCE, by Gary Geelhoed. “In January, a four-year-old model of care for the gender clinic at Perth Children’s Hospital finally reached daylight. After months of resistance, the Western Australian government had tabled the document in parliament. It showed that the public clinic will connect interested girls under 18 who identify as boys with private surgeons for double mastectomy—’top surgery’—while placing ‘personal responsibility’ on the child and her family.” Read more here.

PROTECTING WOMEN’S SPORTS ISN’T HATEFUL, IT’S COMMON SENSE, by Senator Jim Justice. “I’ve coached girls’ basketball in West Virginia for nearly 50 years. When you spend that much time in a gym you get to see up close just how much these young women put into the game. …So when I’m asked why I care so much about protecting women’s sports, the answer really isn’t complicated. I’ve spent a big part of my life around young female athletes, and I know what these opportunities mean.” Read more here.

SCAM: ABORTIONISTS LETHALLY INJECT BABIES, THEN SEND MOMS TO HOSPITALS FOR ‘STILLBIRTHS,’ by Carole Novielli. “Rise Collective, a late-term abortion business in Boulder, Colorado, which reorganized under a new banner after the retirement of well-known, late-term abortionist Warren Hern, is following in Hern’s footsteps. The business offers ‘injection only’ abortions (feticide to kill the baby) through 34 weeks of pregnancy, which some experts claim can place women at risk. The woman is then advised to see her physician to deliver the dead baby, which some speculate may amount to insurance fraud.” Read more here.

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