Family Watch Newswire

September 28, 2026

DEMOCRATS PLAN BILL FOR ABORTIONS UP TO BIRTH NATIONWIDE IF THEY WIN CONGRESS. An 84-page health policy agenda circulated among House Democrats outlines the party’s legislative priorities should they win a congressional majority, including a concerted effort to make abortion on demand the law nationwide. Read more here.

‘DIRTY WORK’: HOW ABORTION INDUSTRY WORKERS REALLY FEEL ABOUT THEIR JOBS. For decades, abortionists and abortion workers have noted the negative feelings and views associated with their chosen profession, with many of them having difficulties in dealing with the direct killing and/or disposal of the remains of aborted children and expressing disdain toward women who come for repeat abortions. Read more here.

LOUISIANA SUES NEW YORK, CALIFORNIA AND MASSACHUSETTS FOR ENABLING MAIL-ORDER ABORTIONS. Louisiana is moving to halt what Attorney General Liz Murrill calls an organized pipeline of mail-order chemical abortions from shield-law states, starting with planned federal lawsuits against New York and California after those states refused to extradite illegal abortionists charged with sending abortion pills into Louisiana. Read more here.

MORE THAN 3,000 JOIN MARCH FOR LIFE IN VILNIUS, LITHUANIA. The march took place amid continuing political debate in Lithuania over family policy and declining birth rates, as lawmakers are divided over reproductive legislation, including access to abortion and in vitro fertilization. Read more here.

SENATOR LAUNCHES BILL TO SHIELD PARENTS, KIDS FROM TRANS IDEOLOGY. U.S. Sen. Eric Schmitt, a Missouri Republican, has introduced a bill to protect parents from state-sponsored kidnapping by social workers when the parents refuse to agree to a child’s identification as transgender. Read more here.

FEDERAL JUDGE DESTROYS LAWSUIT AGAINST NCAA OVER TRANSGENDER POLICIES. A federal judge threw out a lawsuit against the National Collegiate Athletic Association filed by former college swimmer Riley Gaines, who along with other female athletes, sued the organization over its policy allowing biological males to compete in women’s sports. Read more here.

FORMER WPATH PRESIDENT HAS DECADES-LONG TIES TO PRO-PEDOPHILIA ACADEMICS, ACTIVISTS. Dr. Eli Coleman, who previously served as president of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, contributed to three of the group’s most recent Standards of Care, one edition which includes the category of “eunuch” as a protected gender identity. Read more here.

RUTGERS WOMEN’S RUGBY TEAM REBRANDS TO ‘RUTGERS WOMXN’S RUGBY.’ The Rutgers women’s rugby team has changed its name in an effort to reflect the team’s “commitment” to be inclusive, with the team now being called Rutgers Womxn’s Rugby. Read more here.

VIRGINIA PASTORS REBUKE PRO-ABORTION, SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AMENDMENTS. More than 150 pastors signed an open letter urging Virginians to vote “no” on proposed amendments that would enshrine abortion and same-sex marriage into the state constitution. Read more here.

OKLAHOMA STATE U. STUDENT PLEADS GUILTY TO TRASHING YAF DISPLAY ‘MARRIAGE = 1 MAN + 1 WOMAN.’ Oklahoma State University student Jacob Avery recently pleaded guilty to malicious injury to property after vandalizing a Young America’s Foundation student tabling event displaying a sign that read, “Marriage = 1 man + 1 woman.” Read more here.

BIDEN RECEIVES PLANNED PARENTHOOD AWARD, SLAMS DOBBS DECISION. Former President Joe Biden denounced the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs Decision overturning Roe v Wade as he received an award from Planned Parenthood of Delaware. Read more here.

CANADA’S FERTILITY RATE REMAINS AT ALL-TIME LOW. Data from statistics Canada show that the nation’s fertility rate remains at an all-time low, with a 2025 birth rate of just 1.26 births per woman. Read more here.

NO, PARENTS SHOULDN’T BE BROWBEATEN INTO ‘AFFIRMING’ THEIR GENDER-DYSPHORIC CHILDREN, by Do No Harm. “Rarely does a single journal article capture the full range of intellectual errors committed by pediatric ‘gender’ activists. A June 2026 ‘clinical perspective’ in the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry comes very close. A mere glance at Michal J. McDowell et al.’s ‘Using a Cognitive Behavioral Family Therapy Model to Join Caregivers of Transgender and Gender Expansive Youth’ is enough to alert the reader that he or she is in strange territory indeed.” Read more here.

FEWER TEENS NOW IDENTIFY AS LGB, WITH NINTH-GRADE GIRLS DRIVING THE DECLINE, by Becky Noble. “Being a teenager is one of the most awkward times in your life. You are figuring out who you are, what you believe, and what your place in the world really is. But in the middle of all of that, some teens are coming to grips with their sexuality. However, a new study shows that the number of teens who do have to come to terms with the fact that they might be a bit different from their peers is changing, and it’s encouraging.” Read more here.

SHOULD CHILDREN’S TELEVISION SHOWS HAVE WARNINGS ABOUT ‘TRANSGENDER’ IDEOLOGY?, by Jeff Johnston. “If children’s television programming includes ‘transgender’ ideology, should parents be warned? If Gonzo dresses up as Cinderella on Disney Jr.’s Muppet Babies, or Nickelodeon’s Rubble and Crew has a ‘nonbinary’ character, should that be reflected in the shows’ ratings and content description? That question has Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr at odds with the Congressional Equality Caucus, a group of U.S. representatives who support and promote homosexuality and transgenderism.” Read more here.

GENDER IDEOLOGY MAY BE FADING, BUT IT’S STILL HARMING CHILDREN AND FAMILIES, by Daniel Nuccio. “The “great awokening” that began in the mid-2010s and peaked sometime late in the Biden administration by most measures seems to have largely receded — and with it the progressive fetishes of diversity, equity, and inclusion and gender ideology. Hence, it has become easy to roll one’s eyes at these ideologies as risible features of some bygone era. By and large, much of society has moved on.” Read more here.

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