Family Watch Newswire

December 12, 2025

EU YANKS FUNDING FROM PRO-LIFE GROUPS. The European Union blocked funding to two European pro-life groups, charging that they do not adhere to “EU values,” specifically abortion, homosexual marriage and gender ideology. Read more here.

SENATE VOTE WILL DETERMINE OBAMACARE ABORTION FUNDING. The U.S. Senate is preparing for a high stakes vote on the fate of the enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies that expire at the end of the year, and a major point of contention remains the inclusion of Hyde Amendment safeguards ensuring federal funds do not subsidize abortion. Read more here.

FBI OFFICE CITED FAR-LEFT GROUP IN LABELING PRO-LIFE, CATHOLIC GROUPS AS ‘HATE GROUPS.’ According to an explosive document newly uncovered by a Federal Bureau of Investigation whistleblower, the FBI’s Richmond office repeatedly cited the Southern Poverty Law Center, a far-left smear factory, for violating longstanding FBI guidelines on the SPLC’s lack of credibility. Read more here.

NEW MEXICO ABORTION CLINICS KILLED ONE WOMAN, INJURED OVER 50 IN BOTCHED ABORTIONS. Since 2010, Abortion Free New Mexico has documented more than 50 abortion-related injuries, including one confirmed patient death, using 911 records, eyewitness testimony and confidential informants. Read more here.

FAROE ISLANDS PARLIAMENT LEGALIZES ABORTION UP TO 12 WEEKS. The Faroe Islands parliament has voted to legalize abortion for any reason through 12 weeks of pregnancy, removing a decades-old law that only allowed abortion for the so-called “exceptions” of rape, incest, fetal diagnosis and life of the mother. Read more here.

NEW PARTNERSHIP WILL HELP MORE WOMEN FIND ABORTION ALTERNATIVES. Cogency Strategic announced the formation of a new strategic partnership with Heartbeat International and the National Religious Broadcasters, through which a nationwide series of public service announcements will point women directly to OptionLine.org. Read more here.

THIS TEXAS TOWN IS THE 88TH CITY NATIONWIDE TO BAN ABORTIONS. The City Council of Sudan, Texas made its town the 88th city in the nation, and the 71st city in the State of Texas to pass a Sanctuary City for the Unborn Ordinance. Read more here.

CANADA’S CENSORSHIP OF THE PRO-LIFE MESSAGE CONTINUES IN BC. Canada’s abortion activists are relentless in their campaign to keep the pro-life message away from Canadians – and they’ve just scored a victory in British Columbia, where a major billboard company has decided to ban all signs dealing with abortion. Read more here.

U.S. MAIL-ORDER DRUG ABORTIONS UP 40 PERCENT UNDER BIDEN-ERA FDA RULE. A remaining Biden policy that subverts pro-life laws in 21 states has led to a 40-percent increase in mail-order abortions from the first six months of 2024 to the first half of 2025. Read more here.

TEXAS AND FLORIDA SUE FDA FOR NOT PROTECTING WOMEN FROM DANGEROUS ABORTION PILLS. Texas and Florida have both sued the Food and Drug Administration, accusing the agency of failing to properly evaluate the safety of the abortion pill mifepristone and disregarding the risks it poses to women. Read more here.

LEGAL REQUESTS TO ‘CHANGE’ GENDER IN UK REACH A RECORD HIGH. The number of people requesting to legally “change” their gender reached a record high in the past 12 months, after the Supreme Court’s ruling on sex. There were 1,987 applications for gender recognition certificates (GRCs) received in the year to September, the highest for any 12-month period. Read more here.

ALBERTA PASSES BILL TO PROTECT PROVINCE’S TRANSGENDER SURGERY BAN, OTHER PRO-FAMILY LAWS. The Conservative government of Alberta passed into law a bill that will ensure three bills passed this year – a ban on transgender surgery for minors, stopping men from competing in women’s sports, and protecting kids from extreme aspects of the LGBT agenda – remain law via the use of a rare constitutional tool. Read more here.

NO. 1 TENNIS STAR ARYNA SABALENKA SAYS WOMEN FACING ‘TRANSGENDER’ ATHLETES IS ‘NOT FAIR.’ In an interview on Piers Morgan Uncensored ahead of the “Battle of the Sexes” tennis exhibition, Aryna Sabalenka said that men have a significant advantage over women in sports because of their biological makeup. Read more here.

SAME-SEX COUPLES APPEAL TO SUPREME COURT TO OVERTURN JAPAN’S MARRIAGE BAN RULING. Same-sex couples and other plaintiffs in a lawsuit on Japan’s ban on same-sex marriage took their case to the Supreme Court, appealing a high court ruling last month that recognized the ban as constitutional. Read more here.

NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL DISTRICT FACES GOP PRESSURE OVER PARENTAL RIGHTS LAW. A North Carolina school district faced pressure from Republican lawmakers at a heated oversight hearing, where legislators threw LGBTQ children’s books and accused school officials of openly violating parts of a new parental rights law that requires parents be notified about gender identity changes and LGBTQ-themed curriculum for young children. Read more here.

WOMAN INTENTIONALLY HIT PRO-LIFE ACTIVIST WITH HER SUV AT PLANNED PARENTHOOD. Sierra Godfrey has been arrested on charges of second-degree assault and hit-and-run after shoving a pro-life man outside a Planned Parenthood facility in Kennewick, Washington, before using her SUV to hit a person and then driving away. Read more here.

TEXAS LIBRARY CAN KEEP SEXUALLY EXPLICIT MATERIAL FROM MINORS… FOR NOW. A Texas public library can continue to leave 17 sexually explicit books off its shelves which it had deemed inappropriate for minors, due to the Supreme Court’s decision not to hear a court challenge. Read more here.

ONE IN EIGHT NEW ZEALAND TEENS HAS HAD UNWANTED SEXUAL EXPERIENCES. Sexual violence remains widespread among teenagers in Aotearoa, New Zealand with 1 in 8 (12.4 percent) reporting unwanted sexual experiences. Read more here.

‘THIS HAS GONE WAY TOO FAR’: VIDEOS SHOW BIZARRE SEXUAL CEREMONY THAT ELITE AMHERST COLLEGE PUSHES ON ALL FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS. To Attend Amherst College has become a hotbed of administratively sanctioned sex performances and “sexual skills” programs, with a focus on “queer” and transgender students and on free-sex practices such as polyamory. Read more here.

EUROPEANS RUN FROM ABORTION FIGHT AT UN, by Stefano Gennarini. “The Ambassador of Sweden withdrew a UN resolution on humanitarian assistance Wednesday in order to prevent a vote on pro-life amendments proposed by the Trump administration, a vote pro-abortion Europeans seemed slated to lose. The strategic withdrawal at the eleventh hour shows just how much Europeans seem to fear Trump’s pro-life policies.” Read more here.

SHOCKER: NEW STUDY IDENTIFIES DRAMATIC RISE IN MORTALITY FOR ‘TRANS-WOMEN’ WHO USE CROSS SEX HORMONES, by David Strom. “One of the most frustrating things for opponents of alphabet ideology is that the entire intellectual framework is based on lies. A lot of the support for treating ‘gender dysphoria’ medically instead of through psychology is based on a belief that ‘experts’ and physicians are authorities whom we should trust. Their judgment, after all, is based on science and not intuition, so rejecting their advice is just another example of the growing anti-science movement among conservatives.” Read more here.

SORRY, LIZ GILBERT, MARRIED WOMEN ARE (INCREASINGLY) HAPPIEST OF ALL. by Sophie Anderson and Brad Wilcox. “The repeated salvos against marriage and motherhood from left-leaning women help explain why so many single women, especially young and liberal ones, believe that marriage is a bad deal for them and a good deal for men. …There’s only one problem with the progressive case against marriage and family for women: It’s completely wrong.” Read more here.

HOW EMBRACING TRANSGENDERISM PUTS WOMEN IN DANGER, by Zachary Faria. “The United Kingdom has fully embraced transgenderism, reorienting society around the ideology and sacrificing women’s safety in the process. Police data … reveals that, in 2023, there were 80 sexual assaults in leisure center changing rooms (or recreation center locker rooms, for the more American translation). There were also 16 rapes and 65 acts of voyeurism. This comes as more and more leisure centers are making mixed-gender ‘village-style’ changing rooms the new ‘default.’” Read more here.

TRANS LAWYER WHO ASKED SCOTUS TO REDEFINE ‘SEX’ CAN’T PRODUCE A DEFINITION WHEN ASKED, by Glenn T. Stanton. “Late last week, Chase Strangio, an ACLU attorney who worked on the landmark Supreme Court cases Bostock and Skrmetti, sat for a long-form interview with Ross Douthat on his New York Times podcast, “Interesting Times.” Despite Strangio’s belief that SCOTUS and society in general should redefine “sex” to suit her desires, she found herself totally unable to present a coherent alternative definition without resorting to personal feelings and ideological babble.” Read more here.

NEWSWEEK PEDDLES ‘ELITE MISINFORMATION’ ABOUT GENDER TREATMENTS FOR KIDS, by Benjamin Ryan. “I was dismayed yesterday to read an editorial published in Newsweek in which two LGBTQ policy advocates set out, in their minds, to correct the record about pediatric gender medicine; but, as it happens, the authors only served their readers a buffet of false claims about the recent mammoth U.S. Department of Health and Humans Services (HHS) report about this controversial medical field.” Read more here.

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