Family Watch Newswire

April 17, 2026

MPS SPEAK OUT AGAINST ABORTION UP TO BIRTH CLAUSE IN HOUSE OF COMMONS. Members of Parliament criticized Tonia Antoniazzi’s amendment, clause 208, which would change the law so it would no longer be illegal for women to perform their own abortions for any reason, including sex-selective purposes, and at any point up to and during birth. Read more here.

NIH URGED TO PERMANENTLY END TAXPAYER-FUNDED DESTRUCTION OF HUMAN EMBRYOS. For the first time in years, the National Institutes of Health have announced a temporary pause on the review and approval of new human embryonic stem cell lines. Read more here.

FEDERAL JUDGE RULES OREGON CAN’T FORCE PRO-LIFE GROUP TO PAY FOR ABORTIONS. A federal judge has sided with Oregon Right to Life in its challenge to the state’s “Reproductive Health Equity Act,” ruling that the pro-life organization cannot be forced to subsidize abortions. Read more here.

ABORTION BIZ WILL PERMANENTLY CLOSE IN TWO WEEKS. A Greensboro, North Carolina abortion center that was once the busiest in the region will shut down next month. Read more here.

THIS TEXAS COUNTY JUST BECAME 22ND IN THE NATION TO BAN ABORTIONS. By a 5-0 vote, the Commissioners’ Court of Lynn County, Texas considered an ordinance “Outlawing Abortion Within the Unincorporated Area of Lynn County, Declaring Lynn County a Sanctuary County for the Unborn.” Read more here.

UN ACCUSES LABOUR OF ENDANGERING WOMEN WITH TRANS GUIDANCE DELAY. Reem Alsalem, the UN’s special rapporteur on violence against women and girls, called on the UK Government to “walk the talk” on its support for women by releasing the transgender guidance without delay. Ms Alsalem said access to women-only spaces was “central to safeguarding women’s safety, privacy and dignity, and to combating male violence against women and girls.” Read more here.

IDAHO GOV. SIGNS LAW REQUIRING DOCTORS, TEACHERS TO INFORM PARENTS OF CHILD GENDER CONFUSION. Idaho Republican Gov. Brad Little has signed into law a measure banning schools and medical providers from “transitioning” a gender-confused child behind parents’ backs, and requiring they be informed of a child’s desire to use “transgender” names or pronouns. Read more here.

TRANS MALE APPOINTED TO HEAD WOMEN’S HEALTH CHARITY STEPS DOWN AFTER BACKLASH. Steph Richards, a trans-identified male volunteer chosen to represent an endometriosis charity in UK Parliament, has stepped down from the role following criticism surrounding the decision. Read more here.

COLE BACKS LEGISLATION SEEKING TO PROTECT CHILDREN FROM IRREVERSIBLE PAIN. In support of two legislative bills, Chloe Cole is fighting to protect children from being poisoned and mutilated through transgender surgery by the very same trans-pushers who poisoned and mutilated her young body. Read more here.

SPAIN MOVES TRANS SERIAL KILLER TO WOMEN’S PRISON. Joan Vila Dilmé is one of Spain’s most notorious convicted serial killers, and he has been transferred to a women’s prison unit after claiming he is a woman, while serving a sentence for multiple murders at a nursing home. Read more here.

MEN CAUGHT COMPETING IN THE WOMEN’S CATEGORY OF PRESTIGIOUS SOUTH AFRICAN MARATHON. The men were disqualified from one of South Africa’s flagship marathon races after they finished in the top 10 of the women’s race, an example of cheating that has overshadowed the performance of honest runners. Read more here.

CALIFORNIA-BERKELEY SOCIOLOGY NAMES TRANSGENDER ACTIVIST AND AI RESEARCHER AS COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER. The University of California, Berkeley’s Department of Sociology will host Alex Hanna, an AI researcher, LGBT advocate and transgender activist, as its commencement speaker May 17. Read more here.

CHURCH IN WALES APPROVES BLESSINGS OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGES. The governing body of the Church in Wales has approved a bill to make the blessing of same-sex marriages permanent, though dissenting clergy can opt out. Read more here.

TRUMP BUDGET PLAN CUTS BILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO PRO-LGBT PROGRAMS, TARGETS GENDER ‘EXTREMISM.’ The Trump administration’s budget proposal for the 2027 fiscal year includes numerous cuts to pro-LGBT programs as well as a funding request for a new mission center to counteract gender “extremism.” Read more here.

BOSTON ‘WELLNESS’ PROGRAM FOR LGBTQ MIGRANTS FACES SCRUTINY. A group dedicated to helping “LGBTQ+ migrants” in Boston is flailing after conservative media drew attention to its program distributing “wellness” grants to migrants, which the group claimed was taxpayer funded. Read more here.

WASHINGTON FIRE FIGHTERS APPEAL TO U.S. SUPREME COURT FOR RELIGIOUS ACCOMMODATIONS. A group of firefighters in Washington state were placed on unpaid leave for eight months after they asked their employer for a religious accommodation, and First Liberty filed a petition asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear their case and make it clear that Americans should not be forced to choose between their faith and their job. Read more here.

TENNESSEE DECLARES JUNE ‘NUCLEAR FAMILY MONTH,’ REJECTS LGBT ‘PRIDE.’ Tennessee Governor Bill Lee signed a resolution, that passed 72-18 in the House and 26-4 in the Senate, recognizing the month of June as “Nuclear Family Month” instead of “Pride Month,” triggering backlash from LGBT activists. Read more here.

AMERICA’S FERTILITY RATES CRASH AMONG WOMEN OF ALL AGES. According to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control. U.S. birth rates have been steadily declining for more than a decade now, and the total fertility rate (the number of births a woman is projected to have over her lifetime) has continued to hit new lows for several years. Read more here.

THE AUTHOR OF THE CONTROVERSIAL FINNISH STUDY ON YOUTH GENDER CARE RESPONDS TO CRITICS, by Benjamin Ryan. “Dr. Riittakerttu Kaltiala, a professor of adolescent psychiatry at Tampere University in Finland, is the author of a new study about youths attending gender clinics that is making waves. …The study provoked a round of protestations and recriminations from advocates of pediatric gender medicine.” Read more here.

PRO-LIFERS WIN AGAIN AT UN CONFERENCE, by Stefano Gennarini. “Pro-lifers chalked up another win at the United Nations this week as the chairman of the UN Commission on Population and Development refused to put a document forward for approval. He objected to the European efforts to load up the document with abortion and gender ideology. Ambassador Zéphyrin Maniratanga of Burundi did not present a final agreement for adoption because the draft agreement that had been negotiated in recent weeks could not be adopted unanimously.” Read more here.

PRIDE MONTH AIN’T WHAT IT USED TO BE: MANY EVENTS CANCELLED, SCALED BACK NATIONWIDE, by Tim O’Brien. “If you were to celebrate the Tucson Pride Festival this past February, you were out of luck. Organizers of Tucson Pride had to dissolve their organization and cancel the annual festival, which for some reason wasn’t held during national Pride Month, which is in June.” Read more here.

PSYOPS, by Bernard Lane. “We’re psychologists, not script-writing medicos, and so we don’t need to know that the evidence for puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones is so weak that there is no firm basis for claiming these interventions improve the mental health of minors. My paraphrase, but that, in effect, appears to be the official line from the Australian Psychological Society (APS). In a 2024 draft position statement on transgender mental health support.” Read more here.

VIRAL VIDEO OF GAY MEN LAUGHING AS BABY CALLS FOR ‘MAMA’ SHOWS COMMERCIAL SURROGACY IS HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND SLAVERY, NOT FAMILY FORMATION, by Daniel Hayworth. “A video is making the rounds this week, which every Christian, conservative, and American should watch. And after watching it, we should all weep for how far our culture has fallen. In the video, two men, a gay couple, are bouncing a young baby. The baby is fussing, reaching, and out of his mouth tumbles the oldest word any human being ever learns. Mama. But Mama is not there. She was never going to be there. And the men laugh.” Read more here.

ABORTION IS A LUXURY EUROPE CANNOT AFFORD, by Jonathon Van Maren. “In France, there are over a quarter of a million abortions annually. In the Netherlands, nearly 40,000. In Germany and Spain, over 100,000 each. In Europe overall, the average annual butcher’s bill stands at between 3 and 3.5 million abortions, which is more than the collective populations of eight EU countries. Only 5% of the world’s babies are projected to be born in Europe in 2026. The fertility crisis is, without doubt, a many-headed hydra—but it is also true that abortion is ending the lives of millions before they are even born.” Read more here.

TRANS INSANITY LIVES ON, DESPITE THE SUPREME COURT RULING, by Janet Murray. “I was in the courtroom when the UK Supreme Court judgment on gender was handed down a year ago today. It felt like witnessing a pivotal moment in history. After years of politicians, institutions and a vocal minority of the public insisting we go along with the pretence that men could be women, the judges stated something that should never have been in doubt: that in equality law, the term ‘sex’ means biological sex.” Read more here.

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