Family Watch Newswire

January 13, 2025

SENATE TO VOTE ON PRO-LIFE BORN-ALIVE SURVIVORS PROTECTION ACT BEFORE MARCH FOR LIFE. As pro-life Christians make a pilgrimage to the U.S. capitol later this month for the third annual March for Life after the repeal of Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Senate plans to vote on a bill to assure unborn babies who are born during botched abortions receive potentially lifesaving medical care. Read more here.

MAN IN INDIA SEEKS COURT ORDER TO FORCE HIS UNMARRIED DAUGHTER TO ABORT HER BABY. A father in India is asking the high court to force his daughter to abort her preborn child because he says she is unmarried and “mentally ill.” Read more here.

INDIANA BILL WOULD CRIMINALIZE ABORTION DRUGS. New legislation in Indiana would make it a punishable offense to possess abortion drugs and to send the deadly pills into the state. Read more here.

CATHOLIC DOCTORS CHALLENGE BIDEN ADMIN ABORTION MANDATE. Representing the Catholic Medical Association, Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys filed a federal lawsuit against the Biden administration for trying to force emergency room doctors to perform abortions under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act. Read more here.

RHODE ISLAND ABORTIONS DROP 36 PERCENT AS MORE BABIES ARE SAVED. Rhode Island lags behind other states in abortion reporting, but its report to the Centers for Disease Control showed that between 2021 and 2022 abortions decreased by 36 percent overall, with drug-induced abortions decreasing by 76 percent. Read more here.

REPORT REVEALS HOW ABORTION BANS REALLY AFFECT WOMEN. No Texas doctors have been prosecuted for performing one of 132 “medically necessary” induced terminations of pregnancy, according to a report from the Texas Department of Health and Human Services released Jan. 2. Read more here.

MARK ZUCKERBERG REMOVES TAMPONS FROM MEN’S BATHROOMS AT META OFFICES. Mark Zuckerberg announced on Friday that his Meta company, which operates Facebook and Instagram, had abandoned its DEI practices. As part of that move, the company told facilities managers to remove the tampons from the men’s bathrooms. Read more here.

AUSTRIA: CHILDREN EXPELLED FROM KINDERGARTEN AFTER THEIR PARENTS OBJECTED TO POSTER DEPICTING NAKED TRANS-IDENTIFIED MALE DISPLAYING HIS GENITALS. A kindergarten in Austria has expelled two children after their parents expressed concerns about graphic, sexual posters that had been hung in the facility, and which depicted nude trans-identified males in order to “facilitate discussions in kindergarten settings.” Read more here.

INDIANA LAWMAKERS PROPOSE BAN ON ‘TRANSGENDER’ ATHLETES IN COLLEGE SPORTS. Indiana’s HB 1041 would ban self-professed ‘transgender’ individuals from competing on college sports teams for the opposite sex, adding to existing protections for women’s sports at the high school level. Read more here.

CHARLIE KIRK TELLS BEN SHAPIRO ‘IDENTITY CRISIS’ REVEALS THE ‘BRUTALITY’ OF ‘SEX-CHANGE SURGERIES.’ Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk and Daily Wire editor emeritus Ben Shapiro released a new documentary called “Identity Crisis,” which unmasks the “graphic brutality” of so-called “gender transitions” by focusing on the societal failures enabling the continued mutilation of children. Read more here.

MINNESOTA SCHOOL DISTRICT REMOVES LGBTQ CHILDREN’S BOOK WITH NUDITY, DESPITE OBJECTIONS. Rochester Public Schools said it pulled the 2022 book, “The Rainbow Parade” by Emily Neilson, from its elementary school media center last month after a Franklin Elementary School parent raised concerns about nude illustrations in the book. Read more here.

MARATHON OFFERS 500 DISCOUNTED TICKETS TO MINORITY AND LGBT RUNNERS. Grandma’s Marathon in Duluth, Minn., said it will offer 500 discounted tickets to special groups, which include, but are not limited to “communities of color, athletes with disabilities, non-binary athletes, and LGBTQI+ athletes.” Read more here.

REP. CHIP ROY SLAMS UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOR FUNDING PLANNED PARENTHOOD, DEMANDS ANSWERS. Republican Congressman Chip Roy demanded answers from the University of Texas for giving money to Planned Parenthood. Read more here.

PLANNED PARENTHOOD TO ENDORSE CANDIDATES IN PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL BOARD ELECTIONS. Planned Parenthood officials announced they plan to endorse and fund candidates for school board in Pennsylvania’s upcoming local elections, and pro-life supporters are sounding the alarm on why an organization that promotes abortion would be active in elections for offices that oversee school spending and classroom curricula. Read more here.

NOT IN OUR NAME, by Bernard Lane. “The newspaper Le Point has published an open letter from cautious clinicians and researchers protesting against a draft ‘gender-affirming’ guideline that would allow minors from the age of 16 to be given the same swift access to gender medicine as adults. The letter ‘Not in our name,’ organised by the watchdog group The Little Mermaid, says the guideline position adopted by the French National Authority for Health (La Haute Autorité de Santé, HAS) is ‘almost identical to that of the trans-activist associations’ and includes recommendations ‘even more radical’ than those of the scandal-plagued World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH).” Read more here.

PUBLIC OPINION ON SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, by M.D. Perkins. “It doesn’t take a sociologist to tell you a lot has changed in the United States over the past ten years. Having watched the capture of corporate America by LGBT, the stuffing of gay characters into all kinds of media by woke Hollywood, the celebration of drag queens in libraries, schools and churches, and the overall normalization of transgenderism, America has seen major cultural shifts since the Supreme Court’s 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges case. But where exactly is public opinion on the issues of homosexuality and same-sex ‘marriage’?” Read more here.

NO-FAULT DIVORCE PAVED WAY FOR NY’S ENDORSEMENT OF INFIDELITY, by Beverly Willett. “Before the enactment of no-fault divorce, plaintiffs were required to state a cause of action just like in every other lawsuit. Standard reasons for the breach of the marriage contract included adultery, cruelty, and abandonment. Indeed, research shows a high association between infidelity and divorce, with estimates of marital infidelity ranging from 20 to 40 percent. Only betrayed spouses had the right to file for divorce, however, for the simple, logical reason that they were the aggrieved party. But here’s the rub. No-fault divorce laws empowered cheaters to sue for divorce and leave the marriage with impunity, thus rewarding them for their wrongdoing.” Read more here.

THE BIG SORT: AMERICANS ARE MOVING TO STATES THAT SUPPORT THEIR VIEWS ON ABORTION, GENDER, by Jonathon Van Maren. “In 2009, journalist Bill Bishop sounded the alarm in a book titled The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America is Tearing Us Apart. Increasingly, Bishop observed, Americans ‘sorting themselves’ into ‘alarmingly homogenous communities,’ with people choosing to move in neighborhoods where they could live alongside likeminded people. According to Bishop, this has created a country that has become ‘so ideologically inbred that people don’t know and can’t understand those who live just a few miles away.’” Read more here.

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