Family Watch Newswire

July 16, 2025

4TH CIRCUIT UPHOLDS WEST VIRGINIA LAW THAT PROTECTS WOMEN, THE UNBORN. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit rejected a bid by GenBioPro—the generic manufacturer of the abortion drug—to federalize the regulation of prescription drugs, including the abortion drug mifepristone. Read more here.

NON-PHYSICIANS CAN NOW PRESCRIBE ABORTION PILL IN OHIO. A judge in Hamilton County, Ohio granted a preliminary injunction against state regulations that may have prevented non-physicians (like physician assistants and certified nurse midwives) from distributing the abortion pill. Read more here.

LATE-TERM ABORTIONIST’S DOCUMENT: CARRYING TO TERM SAFER FOR WOMEN THAN ABORTION AT 18+ WEEKS. The later a woman seeks an abortion in pregnancy, the more dangerous it is — as even infamous (now retired) late-term abortionist Curtis Boyd — who has ended the lives of an estimated 250,000 preborn babies — openly stated on one of his abortion patient consent forms. Read more here.

HEARINGS BEGIN IN LAWSUIT CHALLENGING MINNESOTA ABORTION LAWS ON 14TH AMENDMENT GROUNDS. The first hearing has taken place in a lawsuit challenging Minnesota abortion laws on the grounds that they violate the equal-protection rights of preborn babies and on the novel legal argument that they impermissibly empower private entities to irrevocably terminate the relationship between mother and child. Read more here.

BOSTON U. COURSE WILL TEACH SOCIAL WORKERS TO ADVANCE ‘REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE.’ Boston University will offer a course during the fall 2025 semester that teaches social work students how to cultivate “reproductive justice” by prioritizing “bodily autonomy,” and the president of a pro-life organization told The College Fix the course “fails both social workers and women.” Read more here.

BRAZILIAN SUPREME COURT URGED TO PROTECT CHILDREN FROM GENDER IDEOLOGY EXPERIMENTS IN BRIEF FILED BY HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS. Pending before the supreme court of Brazil is a decision to ban so-called “gender transition” of minors. “Trans-activist” groups challenged the guidelines in court. In response, ADF International and Brazilian organization Instituto Isabel filed an amicus brief urging the court to uphold the Council’s authority and shield minors from experimental gender interventions. Read more here.

COLORADO DA FACES RECALL AFTER SEEKING TO DISMISS CHARGES AGAINST TRANS SEX OFFENDER ACCUSED OF TRYING TO KIDNAP 11-YEAR-OLD BOY. In the wake of a Colorado district attorney’s office moving to dismiss charges against a sex offender who has been accused of attempting to kidnap a boy from a schoolyard, a local city councilwoman has said that efforts to recall the DA are underway. Read more here.

FLORIDA AG THREATENS LEGAL ACTION AGAINST SWIMMING ORGANIZATION THAT ALLOWS MEN IN WOMEN’S RACES. Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier held a press conference demanding U.S. Masters Swimming rescind its policy of allowing biological males to swim in female events or face legal action. Read more here.

NEW HAMPSHIRE COURT ALLOWS FEMALE ATHLETES TO HELP DEFEND TRUMP EO, STATE LAW PROTECTING WOMEN’S SPORTS. The U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire’s order in Tirrell v. Edelblut, allows female athletes to intervene in the case to defend New Hampshire’s women’s sports law and two executive orders issued by the Trump administration that protect female athletes. Read more here.

CHURCH OF ENGLAND VOTES TO REMOVE OUTDATED DOCUMENT ON SEXUALITY FROM CLERGY SELECTION. The Church of England’s governing body voted on Tuesday to do away with requiring those who want to become clergy to agree to a 1991 document titled “Issues in Human Sexuality,” that described “homosexual practice as especially dishonourable” and called on homosexual Christians to lead a life of abstinence. Read more here.

VIRAL VIDEO SHOWS BARNES & NOBLE WITH ENTIRE SECTION FOR LGBT CHILDREN’S BOOKS. A video by two lesbians has gone viral exposing dominant U.S. book retailer Barnes & Noble for devoting an entire stand to LGBT books aimed at children. Read more here.

IOWA’S PRO-LIFE LAWS COULD SHUT DOWN PLANNED PARENTHOOD CENTERS STATEWIDE, GOVERNOR SAYS. Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds said in a speech to The Family Leadership Summit that pro-life legislation passed in the state during her time in office could help close Planned Parenthood facilities in Iowa for good. Read more here.

WASHINGTON GOVERNOR FERGUSON WANTS TO GIVE PLANNED PARENTHOOD MILLIONS TO ABORT BABIES. Washington’s Governor Bob Ferguson announced that he intends to make up for soon-to-be missing federal Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood with state funds. Read more here.

FLIGHT ATTENDANT FIRED FOR CATHOLIC BELIEFS ALLOWED TO SUE UNION FOR DISCRIMINATION. A federal judge has ruled that a Catholic flight attendant fired by United Airlines may proceed with a lawsuit against his labor union, after alleging it failed to defend him for expressing church teachings on marriage and sexuality. Read more here.

ONE OF TOP U.S. SEX ED LEADERS IS UNHAPPY THAT STATES CAN NOW PROTECT KIDS FROM PORN. The Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States, part of a coalition that favors sexually graphic sex education standards for minors, is upset about a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision that allows states to limit minors’ access to online pornography. Read more here.

MONROVIA TO HOST 2026 FAMILY CONFAB. As the curtains fell on the 7th edition of the Strengthening Families Conference 2025, organizers announced that the next chapter of this growing regional movement to promote women’s empowerment, child protection and family-centered development as the bedrock of national progress will be written in Monrovia, Liberia, where the eighth conference is set to take place in June 2026. Read more here.

NEW POLL SHOWS AMERICANS VALUE FAMILY ABOVE EVERYTHING ELSE. Gallup surveyed more than 2,000 adults in April, giving respondents a list of 23 values and asking them to select all that they considered to be important to them. Eighty-two percent selected family, which tied for first place with the values of respect, trustworthiness and freedom. Read more here.

‘FROGGY GIRL’—ONE THERAPIST’S ANSWER TO THE GENDER BOOK INDUSTRY, by Pamela Garfield-Jaeger. “In recent years, a flood of children’s books has hit the shelves promoting gender ideology under the guise of kindness and self-discovery. Titles like I Am Jazz, Who Are You? The Kid’s Guide to Gender Identity, and Phoenix Goes to School are often read in classrooms and libraries across the country. These books are pitched as inclusive and affirming—helping children discover ‘who they truly are.’ But the underlying message is troubling: if a child feels uncomfortable in their body or doesn’t conform to stereotypical gender roles, they may actually be the opposite sex ‘on the inside.’ Read more here.

TRANS LIMBO, by Bernard Lane. “The populist-Left Lula government in Brazil has reportedly shelved a contentious transgender health program that would have lowered the age thresholds for hormones and surgery such as double mastectomy. Under the program known as PAES Pop Trans, taxpayer-funded hormones now restricted to adults would be available from the age of 16 and the threshold for trans surgery would drop from 21 to 18, while experimental puberty blockers would be provided to minors outside clinical trials.” Read more here.

LATE-TERM ABORTIONISTS AND INDUSTRY INSIDERS ADMIT TO THE DANGERS OF INDUCTION ABORTION, by Carole Novielli. “According to testimony from abortion providers, outpatient abortion facilities are likely ill-equipped (compared to hospitals) to handle life threatening complications that may occur during induction abortions committed later in pregnancy. …Multiple abortion industry insiders have been clear in stating that late-term induction abortions typically take days to complete and should be done in hospitals instead of clinics. This even includes the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.” Read more here.

JUDGE INDIRA TALWANI’S UNHINGED PLANNED PARENTHOOD ORDER AMOUNTS TO JUDICIAL TERRORISM, by Nathan Stone. “Indira Talwani, an Obama-appointed judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, ushered in the next chapter of judicial supremacy when she blocked the provisions of the ‘big beautiful bill’ which deprived Planned Parenthood and its affiliate organizations of Medicaid funds. If Judge Talwani had ‘found’ those provisions ‘unconstitutional,’ or if she had found the whole reconciliation package ‘illegal,’ it would be another example of judicial usurpation.” Read more here.

HIGHER ED GROUPS DEBATE IF STRIPPING, PORN, AND NUDITY SHOULD BE ALLOWED IN CLASSROOM, by Noah Farb. “’Stripping, flashing, and titillating have no place in academics,’ Patrick Reilly, the president of the Cardinal Newman Society, told The College Fix via email. …Reilly, and other higher education experts, provided comments in response to a Santa Clara University professor who showed students graphic pornography and had them write a ‘sexual autobiography’ in class.” Read more here.

NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION SPENT $1.75 MILLION ON ‘QUEERING OF MATHEMATICS’ THROUGH ‘WEAVING,’ by Matt Lamb. “Move over underwater basket weaving – two math scholars are going further and asking: what if we made math gay? And of course they did it with taxpayer dollars. The International Society of the Learning Sciences recently published a three-page academic paper discussing an undergraduate course on the ‘queering of mathematics’ through weaving. As disclosed at the bottom of the paper, the research came via a National Science Foundation grant.” Read more here.

UN EXPERTS DUEL OVER ‘SEX’ AND ‘GENDER’ AT HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL, by Grace Melton. At the latest session of the U.N. Human Rights Council, which just concluded last week, delegates dialogued with two U.N. human rights experts who have written reports focused on gender ideology. These two experts’ views on ‘gender questions,’ and their recommendations for how countries can protect human rights, reflected radically different views on society and ‘gender.’” Read more here.

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