Family Watch Newswire

April 28, 2025

MASSIVE STUDY SHOWS MAJOR COMPLICATIONS FROM ABORTION PILL 22 TIMES HIGHER THAN FDA REPORTS. A new study reveals that the abortion pill mifepristone carries a rate of serious or life-threatening complications 22 times higher than what the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the drug’s manufacturer, Danco Laboratories, have claimed. Read more here.

COLORADO GOVERNOR JARED POLIS SIGNS BILL FORCING TAXPAYERS TO FUND ABORTIONS. Polis signed SB25-183, a recently approved state measure that would allocate a minimum of $1.5 million per year of taxpayer funds to cover elective abortions. With Colorado having abortions up to birth, that means taxpayers will be on the hook for paying for aborting viable babies who could easily live outside the womb. Read more here.

UK COURT HEARS CASE OF WOMAN WHO BROUGHT DEAD BABY TO HOSPITAL AFTER ALLEGED ILLEGAL ABORTION. A woman is on trial in the UK for allegedly having an illegal chemical abortion at 26 weeks gestation after obtaining abortifacients from provider Marie Stopes. Read more here.

MINNESOTA HOUSE DEMOCRATS VOTE DOWN BILL TO RESTORE FUNDING FOR PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTERS. The Minnesota House Democratic majority has again prevented taxpayer funding for pregnancy resource centers after a Republican-sponsored bill, the Positive Alternatives Grant Program, failed to get the 68 votes required for passage. Read more here.

ATLANTA CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL STOPS SEX CHANGE SERVICES FOR MINORS. Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta will no longer be performing sex change services for minors after the Trump administration increased pressure on healthcare institutions to stop the practices. Read more here.

CANADA’S PRIME MINISTER VOWS TO PROVIDE STERILIZING PUBERTY BLOCKERS TO CHILDREN ‘WITHOUT EXCEPTION.’ Prime Minister Mark Carney doubled down on his dedication to furthering the LGBT agenda by committing to protect the so-called “fundamental right” to irreversible drugs and surgeries for gender-confused Canadians. Read more here.

UK’S NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE TO TEST ALL ‘TRANSGENDER’ KIDS FOR AUTISM: REPORT. Britain’s National Health Service will reportedly test all supposedly transgender children for autism, adopting recommendations from a landmark report which criticized the previous practice of putting adolescents on the path of life-altering gender reassignment procedures. Read more here.

ASU WEBSITE CHANGES ‘LGBTQIA’ TO ‘LGB’ WITHOUT UNIVERSITY APPROVAL. The Global Education Office at Arizona State University changed its website and provided less information regarding transgender, queer, intersex, asexual and other diverse identities. The changes align with President Trump’s executive order stating, “It is the policy of the United States to recognize two sexes, male and female.” A University spokesperson said the original language is being restored. Read more here.

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE REVERSES BIDEN-ERA SUPPORT FOR TAXPAYER-FUNDED TRANS SURGERIES FOR INMATES. The Department of Justice has withdrawn a Biden administration statement of interest supporting taxpayer-funded “transgender surgeries” for inmates, calling the stance by the prior administration an abuse of the legal system driven by politics rather than law. Read more here.

CALIFORNIA BILL TO BAR TRANS-IDENTIFIED MALE SEX OFFENDERS FROM WOMEN’S PRISONS HEADS TO COMMITTEE. Women’s rights groups are hoping that after California Democrats blocked two bills to restore sex-separated sports in schools, they might be persuaded to at least prohibit trans-identified male prisoners who have committed sex offenses from preying on incarcerated women. Read more here.

PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL BOARD VOTES TO RETURN TO SCHOOL LIBRARY SEXUALLY EXPLICIT BOOK ‘GENDER QUEER.’ The Radnor Township School District board voted 6-0 (with three abstentions) to put back on its lone high school’s library shelves “Gender Queer,” along with “Fun Home” and “Blankets.” Read more here.

UK NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE TO TEST ALL ‘TRANSGENDER’ KIDS FOR AUTISM: REPORT. The United Kingdom’s National Health Service will now require that gender clinics screen children for disorders such as ADHD, autism, learning disabilities or other mental health issues, as they could be the foundation of their gender stress. Read more here.

‘DEEPLY INSULTING’: CONTROVERSIAL POLICY UNDER FIRE IN WOMEN’S SPORTS. Fencer Stephanie Turner’s disqualification at the Cherry Blossom Open in Maryland has triggered a debate over safety and transgender inclusion in women’s sports. She refused to compete against transgender athlete Redmond Sullivan, prompting Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to investigate whether USA Fencing’s policies complied with state law. Read more here.

EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN AMERICA WILL NOT REMOVE CONSCIENCE PROTECTIONS FOR OPPONENTS OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGE: OFFICIAL. The liberal mainline denomination voted to approve an editing process for a 2009 document, which, among other things, required the denomination to respect different opinions on LGBT issues among members. Read more here.

IRELAND SAW AN OVERALL SLIGHT DECREASE IN MARRIAGES IN 2024. Ireland’s Central Statistics Office has released its Marriages 2024 report, showing a 3.8 percent decline from the previous year, though same-sex marriages increased by 3.4 percent. Read more here.

GOP LAWMAKER DENOUNCES SUPREME COURT’S LANDMARK SAME-SEX MARRIAGE RULING. Oklahoma State Senator Dusty Deevers, also an evangelical pastor, said that the Supreme Court’s Obergefell v. Hodges decision, which legalized same-sex marriage nationwide, is not “settled law,” and he argued that there is “no right to gay marriage.” Read more here.

SCHOOL: GIRL WHO REFUSED TO TAKE LGBT CLASS WILL NOT GRADUATE. An anonymous star student at a high school in Montgomery County, Maryland will not be allowed to graduate because she refused to complete a mandatory, homosexual indoctrination health class. Read more here.

CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES ORDERED TO PAY $60K TO HOMOSEXUAL EX-EMPLOYEE. U.S. District Judge Julie Rubin ruled that Catholic Relief Services — the official international humanitarian agency of the U.S. Catholic Church — was not exempted from the Maryland Fair Employment Practices Act when it withdrew same-sex spousal benefits from the employee, identified in court filings as John Doe. Read more here.

DOZENS OF ABORTION BUSINESSES CAUGHT VIOLATING INFORMED CONSENT LAWS. A new report by Americans United for Life highlights failures by dozens of clinics, including Planned Parenthood, to provide women with critical information before performing abortions. Read more here.

COLORADO UNIVERSITY CANCELS ‘SEX ED SUMMER CAMP’ FOR KIDS. The University of Colorado sought to partner with an abortion clinic to host a now-canceled “Sex Ed Summer Camp” for incoming 5^th– through 8^th-grade students that was going to focus on “bodies beyond the binary” and “gender and sexuality.” Read more here.

WSJ: META’S AI CHATBOTS ENGAGED IN EXPLICIT SEXUAL ROLEPLAY WITH MINORS. A Wall Street Journal investigation has revealed that Meta’s AI chatbots on Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp are empowered to engage in “romantic role-play” with users that can turn sexually explicit, even with accounts belonging to minors as young as 13. Read more here.

GOP GOVERNOR VETOES BILL MEANT TO SHIELD KIDS FROM ‘SEXUALLY EXPLICIT’ BOOKS AT SCHOOL. North Dakota Republican Governor Kelly Armstrong vetoed a bill this week that would have required school districts to keep books determined to be “sexually explicit” out of the reach of students, saying that the bill was a “misguided” attempt to “legislate morality.” Read more here.

SCIENTISTS WANT TO GROW HUMAN BODIES WITHOUT BRAINS TO HARVEST THEIR ORGANS. A recent article by three Stanford researchers, in the MIT Technology Review, explored commodifying human life by growing human bodies without brains or consciousness in order to harvest their organs for transplant, and they say it could be closer to becoming reality than people think. Read more here.

PERSPECTIVE: THE CASE FOR EARLY PARENTHOOD, by Matt Rich. “When my wife and I found out we were expecting, I was ecstatic. I had always dreamed of being a father. But as the initial excitement faded, fear and anxiety set in. I was 25 and in the middle of my first year of law school — buried in outlines, case law, job interviews and exams. If I was already struggling to balance my current responsibilities, how could I possibly take on the added challenge of raising a child? How would I support my wife and baby without a steady income? …The more I thought about it, the more I struggled with the outlook of my new life. And then my son was born. It was the happiest day of my life, and my perspective quickly changed.” Read more here.

UK SEX EDUCATION CLASS PROMOTED ‘CHOKING’ TO TEENAGERS, by Jonathon Van Maren. “The experts agree: Pornography is driving a crisis of sexual violence and sexualized violence. But most still avoid the obvious answer to this crisis: Pornography must be enormously restricted, if not banned entirely as a genuine threat to our society and certainly to the health, safety, and well-being of young people in general and young women and girls (as the recipients of this violence) in particular. …A council-funded sex education PowerPoint shown to teenagers referenced asking for consent before choking a partner. The material … was shown to pupils studying PSHE lessons at a range of secondary schools.” Read more here.

NANCY MACE BLASTS CLEMSON’S 15-GENDER LUNACY, by Sarah Arnold. “Republican Rep. Nancy Mace (S.C.) is turning up the heat on Clemson University after the school reportedly rolled out a form that offered 15 different gender identity options. Mace didn’t mince words, declaring that South Carolina would follow the science and ‘not some radical, woke, leftist, lunatic ideology.’ She also blasted the taxpayer-funded institution for promoting radical gender politics instead of focusing on academic excellence. In a social media post on Friday, Mace put Clemson on the map for offering a health portal menu that included terms such as ‘genderqueer,’ ‘two-spirit,’ ‘cis female,’ and ‘cis male.’” Read more here.

THE NEW ORTHODOXY SHOWS UP IN COURT, by Tony Perkins. “The title ‘prophet’ isn’t on my business card, but you don’t need to be a prophet — just a student of history — to have predicted the cultural and legal conflicts unleashed by the Supreme Court’s 2015 Obergefell decision. That ruling overturned the laws of nearly 30 states and imposed same-sex marriage on the entire country. In the immediate aftermath of the court’s redefinition of marriage — back when cable news still allowed organizations that supported biblical marriage to appear — I said plainly: the court could make same-sex marriage a legal right, but it could not make it morally right.” Read more here.

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