Family Watch Newswire

September 11, 2026

OREGON UNIVERSITY FUNDS TRAVEL, HOUSING FOR RESIDENTS SEEKING ABORTION TRAINING. Oregon Health and Science University, a public health sciences university in Portland, operates a visiting resident program that includes training in “contraceptive counseling and provision” and “pre-procedure counseling and procedures for abortion and early pregnancy loss.” Read more here.

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN FELLOWSHIP TRAINS FAMILY PHYSICIANS TO PERFORM ABORTIONS. The University of Michigan Medical School, in collaboration with the Reproductive Health Access Project, offers a year-long fellowship that trains family physicians to perform abortions and teach reproductive health procedures to other clinicians. Read more here.

CALIFORNIA PASSES BILL TO MANDATE COMMUNITY COLLEGES PROVIDE ABORTIONS. A California bill sent to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk for signing into law will require public community colleges to provide abortion pills on campus, expanding a mandate that already applies to state universities. Read more here.

IDAHO SUPREME COURT APPROVES BALLOT MEASURE LANGUAGE FOR PRO-ABORTION PROPOSITION. The Idaho Supreme Court has approved a revised version of the ballot measure language for Proposition 1, a pro-abortion measure that seeks to create a law guaranteeing a “right” to “reproductive freedom” (including abortion) in the currently pro-life state. Read more here.

FIFTH CIRCUIT PANEL APPEARS ‘HOSTILE’ TOWARD LOUISIANA IN LEGAL FIGHT OVER ABORTION PILL. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments in a case that could decide whether abortion pills can be legally sent by mail into states that have laws in place that ban them. Read more here.

FIRST LIBERTY ASKS U.S. SUPREME COURT TO OVERTURN WASHINGTON LAW ALLOWING GOVERNMENT TO HIDE RUNAWAY CHILDREN FROM FAMILIES. First Liberty is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a Washington state law that says the government can hide runaway children from their parents and facilitate “gender-affirming” treatment without parental notice or consent. Read more here.

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND HOSTS QUEER EVENT PROMOTING POLICIES THAT OPEN WOMEN’S FACILITIES TO BIOLOGICAL MALES. The University of Maryland welcomed students back to campus with a queer-focused event that connects attendees with university resources and policies allowing males to access women’s restrooms, locker rooms and changing rooms. Read more here.

CONGRESSMAN GREEN DEMANDS HORMONES FOR ‘TRANS’ ICE DETAINEES. Rep. Al Green, Dem-Texas, held a press conference demanding that transgender immigrants in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody receive hormones and other specialized medical care. Read more here.

COURT DENIES APPEAL TO WOMAN’S RIGHTS CAMPAIGNER ORDERED TO PAY $120,000 TO TRANS-IDENTIFIED MALE FOR CORRECTLY RECOGNIZING HIM AS A MAN. The High Court of Australia has denied an appeal lodged by women’s rights advocate Sall Grover in a landmark case which ruled that “sex is changeable” and ordered her to pay $20,000, and additionally at least $100,000 in court fees, to a trans-identified male for recognizing him as a man. Read more here.

PACIFIC JUSTICE INSTITUTE BACKS PARENTS AND TEACHERS FIGHTING CALIFORNIA’S GENDER SECRECY POLICIES. Pacific Justice Institute has filed a friend-of-the-court brief in Mirabelli v. Bonta, urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to uphold constitutional protections for parents and teachers challenging California policies that restrict communication with parents about a child’s gender identity at school. Read more here.

CONSERVATIVE GROUPS SPLIT ON IF COLLEGE SPONSORSHIP BILL WOULD ALLOW FOR TRANS ATHLETES. The Protect College Sports Act, set for U.S. congressional votes in mid-September, largely focuses on how colleges and athletes are allowed to create “name, image, and likeness” financial deals, but certain language can be exploited to override laws in 27 states that currently prevent males from competing in women’s sports. Read more here.

SOPHIE CUNNINGHAM LAUNCHES NEW PODCAST AFTER PREVIOUS CO-HOST SHARED OPPOSING VIEWS ON TRANS ATHLETES. Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham has returned to podcasting with a new co-host after her previous partner publicly shared an opposing position to Cunningham on the topic of transgender athletes in women’s sports. Read more here.

‘GO GET MARRIED’: SCHOLARS LAUNCH NEW PROJECT TO ENCOURAGE LASTING RELATIONSHIPS IN GEN Z. Brad Wilcox, a sociology professor at the University of Virginia, recently launched the Go Get Married Project, an initiative targeted at Gen Z that features research on the topic and an interactive map where users can see marriage and singleness statistics across the U.S. Read more here.

WASHINGTON FATHER SUES SCHOOL DISTRICT FOR DENYING RELIGIOUS OPT-OUT FOR 5TH GRADER DURING PRIDE MONTH LESSON. A Washington father is suing his son’s public school district after he said his 10-year-old was taught about gender surgery during a pride month lesson despite previously asking the school to excuse his child from LGBTQ-related instruction. Read more here.

86 PERCENT OF MOUNT HOLYOKE STUDENTS ARE LGBT. A new Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression survey of 62,000+ students at 250+ campuses found that 21 percent of undergrads identify as “gay, lesbian bisexual or queer/questioning,” ranging from four percent of Wake Forest students to 86 percent of students at Mount Holyoke College (in Massachusetts). Read more here.

HOMOSEXUAL DAD INFLUENCERS FURIOUS U.K. LAW DOESN’T RECOGNIZE THEM BOTH AS LEGAL PARENTS OF CHILD CONCEIVED WITH EGG DONOR, SURROGATE. A homosexual United Kingdom couple that traveled to the United States to manufacture and purchase a baby were met with difficulty when they tried to bring the baby home only to discover that they were required to say who the mother was. Read more here.

SPEAKER MIKE JOHNSON STILL WANTS TO DEFUND PLANNED PARENTHOOD. U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson, Rep-Louisiana, says that it’s still a goal of his to cut off federal cash from flowing to the abortion corporation, and he’s making that a priority. Read more here.

COALITION STRIVES TO PROTECT CHILDREN FROM SEXUALLY EXPLICIT MATERIALS IN SCHOOLS. Explicit books heavily promoted by Planned Parenthood, Advocates for Youth and their allies continue to plague school library shelves across the country — books aimed at shaping children’s developing minds to align with gender ideology and a pro-abortion agenda. Read more here.

COLORADO FORCES DOCTORS TO MEDICALLY ‘TRANSITION’ PATIENTS OR RISK PROSECUTION. A federal lawsuit has been filed challenging a Colorado law forcing healthcare professionals to participate in so-called “gender transition” procedures for children and adults, even when doing so violates their religious, ethical and medical judgment. Read more here.

GERMAN GOADS TRUMP AT UN/GA, by Stefano Gennarini. “Annalena Baerbock did not mince words in her final speech as President of the General Assembly. She quite obviously attacked the Trump administration and thanked members of the organization for blocking U.S. efforts to reform the organization. …For the past year, the U.S. government has repeatedly asked European member states to remove controversial issues like abortion, gender ideology, censorship, climate alarmism, and other leftist priorities from UN resolutions.” Read more here.

POLITICS IN THE THERAPY SESSION, by Do No Harm. “Once upon a time, therapists took care to hide their ideological views from their patients, presenting instead a ‘blank screen’ that allowed the therapeutic relationship to function as intended. Mark that down as one more casualty of the Age of Wokeness. Elizabeth Bernstein’s recent Wall Street Journal article ‘Is Your Therapist Biased? Personal Agendas Are Creeping Into the Therapy Room’ provides a useful entrée for the curious reader.” Read more here.

CAN A CONTRACT PUNISH A WOMAN FOR REFUSING AN ABORTION?, by David Manney. “McKenna West signed a surrogacy agreement. Months later, doctors discovered that the baby she was carrying had hypoplastic left heart syndrome, a severe congenital heart defect. Omar Ahmed and Nausheen Gilkar, the California couple who arranged the pregnancy, wanted it terminated. West refused.” Read more here.

TO PROTECT OUR CHILDREN: A DAY OF REMEMBRANCE FOR THOSE ABORTED, by Frank Pavone. “The brutality of abortion continues even after a child is ripped from the womb. Bodies of aborted babies are disposed of with medical waste and incinerated. Sometimes they are dumped into trash bins or fields. In one infamous case in California, the bodies of 16,443 aborted babies were found in a locked storage container outside a private home.” Read more here.

CAN A HAPPY MARRIAGE PROTECT AGAINST HEART DISEASE?, by Scott Hastings. “As a primary care physician treating individuals and families in a community setting, I see firsthand how social interactions with an intimate partner—marriage being a prime example—affects health over the lifespan. In older patients, this difference is stark, particularly in my male patients. Single older men fare poorly compared to married older men in both scientific studies and in my medical practice.” Read more here.

MARRIAGE BEFORE THE BABY CARRIAGE? MORE AMERICANS ARE SAYING ‘YES,’ by Glenn T. Stanton. “‘First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes a baby in the baby carriage.’ Until recently, no generation questioned the logical natural progression of family life. Marriage first. Babies second. In 1940, just 4% of births occurred outside of marriage. For the last few decades, that number has sat at a remarkably high level of 40%.” Read more here.

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