Family Watch Newswire

February 11, 2026

MISSOURI HOUSE PASSES BILL TO PROTECT ABORTION SURVIVORS. Missouri’s Born Alive Abortion Survivors Act (HB 1667) seeks to ensure that a baby born alive during the process of an abortion will receive the same life-saving care as any other child. Read more here.

VIRGINIA DEMOCRATS DEFEAT BILL TO TELL WOMEN ABOUT ABORTION ALTERNATIVES. Virginia Democrats in a House of Delegates subcommittee have defeated a Republican-backed measure that would have helped pregnant women find abortion alternatives. Read more here.

ABORTION PILLS NOW ACCOUNT FOR TWO-THIRDS OF ALL ABORTIONS. New research shows abortion pills are associated with far higher complication rates than previously acknowledged, prompting a renewed federal review of mifepristone. Read more here.

IOWA COMMITTEE PASSES BILL TO STOP MAIL ORDER ABORTIONS. An Iowa Senate subcommittee advanced a bill that would stop mail-order abortions that are killing hundreds of thousands of babies nationwide. Read more here.

16TH TEXAS COUNTY OUTLAWS ABORTION AND USE OF ROADS FOR ‘ABORTION TRAFFICKING.’ Action Hall County is the first county in the Amarillo-Region of Texas to pass a Sanctuary County for the Unborn Ordinance, and the first county to cut off U.S. Highway 287 – the major route of travel from the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex to Amarillo for those traveling to abortion facilities in Albuquerque, New Mexico or Pueblo, Colorado. Read more here.

‘TRANSGENDER’ SHOOTER IN CANADA LEAVES 10 DEAD, 25 WOUNDED. Initial reports described the suspect in the shootings in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, as a “female in a dress with brown hair,” and details about the shooter from official sources remain sparse. Multiple locals have identified the perpetrator as Jesse Strang, a young male who identified as ‘transgender.’ Read more here.

NEW HAMPSHIRE GOP GOVERNOR VETOES BILL TO KEEP MEN OUT OF WOMEN’S SPORTS, PRISONS, BATHROOMS. New Hampshire Republican Gov. Kelly Ayotte has once again vetoed legislation that would keep gender-confused males out of intimate facilities, athletic teams and prisons intended specifically for women, calling it a repeat of a previous “impractical” effort to fix the issue. Read more here.

WASHINGTON TEEN GIRL ALLEGES SEXUAL ASSAULT BY ‘TRANSGENDER’ WRESTLER. A 16-year-old sophomore Puyallup, Washington high school wrestler was allegedly sexually assaulted by a transgender boy on December 6 during a girls’ wrestling match at the Emerald Ridge High School. Read more here.

VETERINARY STUDENT FACING UP TO 10 YEARS IN PRISON FOR ‘TRANSPHOBIC’ SOCIAL MEDIA COMMENTS. A Brazilian woman, Isadora Borges, appeared before a federal court after being criminally charged for posting comments on social media expressing her views on gender ideology, exposing her to a possible prison sentence of four to 10 years. Read more here.

UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COURSE MANDATES GENDER FRAMEWORKS. The class syllabus states that “much of the analysis will employ a gender lens” and lists abortion, infertility, assisted reproductive technologies and non-heterosexual parenthood among the central topics of the course. Read more here.

‘ANTI-GAY PREJUDICE’ INCREASING AMONG YOUNG PEOPLE, NORTHWESTERN PROFESSOR SAYS. Professor Tessa Charlesworth released a preprint study which purports to find lower levels of acceptance of homosexuality in younger generations, even among liberals. Read more here.

BINGHAMTON Q CENTER TO HOST LIVE DEMO OF ‘TRANSTAPING.’ The LGBTQ Center at Binghamton University, in New York, has announced a list of events for February that range from a TransTaping demo to a “Queer Safe Sex & Consent” event. Read more here.

TRUMP ADMIN YANKS RAINBOW FLAG FROM NYC’S STONEWALL MONUMENT. The U.S. National Park Service removed a large rainbow flag from a pole in Christopher Park in front of the famed Stonewall Inn in Manhattan. Read more here.

FIRST-EVER LGBT JUDGE IN TEXAS COUNTY SUSPENDED. Bexar County Court at Law Judge Rosie Speedlin Gonzalez surrendered to authorities on charges of unlawful restraint and official oppression. Read more here.

CALIFORNIA DEMOCRATS GIVE PLANNED PARENTHOOD $90 MILLION TO ABORT MORE BABIES. California Democrats approved $90 million in taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood — a move pro-life advocates condemned as enabling the abortion giant to continue killing unborn babies and offset the loss of federal funding. Read more here.

CANADIAN LIBERALS RETURN TO PUSHING BILL C-9, WHICH COULD CRIMINALIZE QUOTING BIBLE ON HOMOSEXUALITY. Canada’s Liberals are pushing Bill C-9, a dangerous “hate speech” law that would remove protections for sincerely held religious beliefs. Read more here.

ILLINOIS SCHOOL DISTRICT SUED FOR DISCRIMINATING AGAINST GOOD NEWS CLUBS. Liberty Counsel filed a lawsuit on behalf of Child Evangelism Fellowship of Illinois against the Moline-Coal Valley Community Unified School District for unlawfully denying Good News Clubs equal access to three elementary school facilities while allowing similar non-religious organizations access. Read more here.

ADF TO ATLANTIC CAPE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: RESTORE STUDENT GROUP FUNDING TO RELIGIOUS CLUBS. Alliance Defending Freedom sent a letter to Atlantic Cape Community College informing the school that its policy of barring religious and political student groups from its funding program is unconstitutional. Read more here.

HERE’S THE REAL REASON GEN Z DOESN’T WANT KIDS (AND IT’S NOT THE ECONOMY), by Julianna Frieman. “Vox published an article recently titled ‘Generation Dad,’ profiling young men who say they want children, even as birth rates collapse and cultural elites insist family formation is passé. On its surface, the piece reads as cautiously optimistic. Despite economic anxiety, political polarization, and social fragmentation, young men still express a desire to become fathers. But beneath that optimism is a far more revealing contradiction, one that Vox gestures toward but never fully confronts.” Read more here.

HRC’S CORPORATE INFLUENCE COLLAPSES, AS FORTUNE 500 COMPANIES FLEE THE LGBT CAUSE, by Suzanne Bowdey. “Three years ago, if you’d asked the smartest conservatives in the room what it would take to change corporate America, nobody would’ve guessed six beer cans. But looking back, one of the best things that’s ever happened in this century will also go down as one of the worst business decisions ever made.” Read more here.

FINNISH MP TARGETED OVER BIBLE VERSES TESTIFIES BEFORE US HOUSE ON EUROPE’S CENSORSHIP LAWS, by Jonathon Van Maren. “On February 4, Finnish parliamentarian and former cabinet minister Päivi Räsänen appeared as a witness before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee to detail her ongoing, six-year persecution by the Finnish government for posting Bible verses on social media.” Read more here.

ANTI-CONVERSION THERAPY CAMPAIGN PEDDLING ‘DISINGENUOUS’ CLAIMS, by Michael Curzon. “An issue as serious as the potential banning of ‘conversion practices’—a move which critics warn could criminalise legitimate conversations between parents and their own children—should surely be approached with the utmost care. Yet those pushing for it to be outlawed have been accused of making ‘disingenuous’ and ‘misleading’ claims, motivated—of course—by their own politics.” Read more here.

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