Family Watch Newswire

August 26, 2026

U.K. MARCH FOR LIFE TO FEATURE THOUSANDS MARCHING IN LONDON SEPT. 5. The March will host the Pro-life Family Summit and end with a rally in Parliament Square that will include Isabel Vaughan-Spruce, co-director of March for Life U.K., who became the first person in Britain to be charged under new buffer zone laws for silently praying outside an abortion clinic. Read more here.

TRUMP’S FDA NOMINEE COULD RENEW SCRUTINY TO ABORTION DRUG RISK. President Donald Trump’s Food and Drug Administration nominee, Dr. Heidi Overton, could bring renewed scrutiny to mifepristone, the abortion drug at the center of an ongoing federal safety review. Read more here.

NEW JERSEY ABORTION, GENDER LAW GOES FROM SHIELD TO SWORD. A Department of Justice review found that Biden-era prosecutors sought an average sentence of 26.8 months for pro-life FACE Act defendants, compared with 12.3 months for pro-abortion defendants, and it alleged that the DOJ worked closely with pro-abortion organizations in identifying and pursuing pro-life activists. Read more here.

WATCHDOG GROUP FLAGS SAFETY CONCERNS AT COLORADO ABORTION CLINICS AFTER DEATH OF TEENAGER. In Colorado, advocates for life are gathering to remember Alexis Arguello, a young woman who died during a second-trimester abortion at a Fort Collins Planned Parenthood, during a three-day “Justice for Lexi” campaign. Read more here.

OREGON CELEBRATING SECOND ANNUAL ADOPTION DAY. Oregon is celebrating its annual Adoption Day, which was established last year by a life-affirming measure advanced by Representative Lucetta Elmer (R-McMinnville), who had been adopted as a baby. Read more here.

AMERICANS WHO SUPPORT TRANSGENDER INTERVENTIONS MORE LIKELY TO JUSTIFY POLITICAL VIOLENCE: HHS STUDY. A new study commissioned by the Department of Health and Human Services has found a correlation between people who believe in radical gender ideology and a greater willingness to justify political violence. Read more here.

TRUMP PUTS SCHOOLS ‘ON NOTICE’: PUSHING TRANSGENDERISM IS ‘CHILD ABUSE.’ President Donald Trump issued a stark warning to public schools to stop encouraging “gender transitions” for confused students or face consequences. In the speech in the Rose Garden, the president lamented “extreme ideologies” that have taken root in schools in recent years. Read more here.

FEMALE OFFICER FILES $15M SUIT AFTER LOCKER ROOM INCIDENT WITH MALE RECRUIT. A female police officer is suing the city of Norfolk, Virginia and its police chief for $15 million after allowing a male trans-identified recruit to use the women’s locker room and requiring others to use the man’s chosen pronouns. Read more here.

CHARLES BARKLEY SAYS ONLY BIOLOGICAL WOMEN SHOULD PLAY IN THE WNBA. Former NBA star Charles Barkley is calling on WNBA leadership to put an end to the controversy surrounding two former professional male basketball players who have claimed they should be eligible for the league and to make clear that only biological women should play in the league. Read more here.

MARRIAGES ARE LARGELY HAPPENING IN MIDDLE AMERICA AND NOT IN URBAN CENTERS, STUDY FINDS. The report, published by the Institute for Family Studies, found that the largest share of unmarried young adults in their 20s and 30s are in urban centers like Cleveland, Detroit, Philadelphia, Chicago and Washington, D.C. Read more here.

PASADENA COLLEGE WORKFORCE DEAN MUST HAVE ‘QUEER COMMUNITIES’ EXPERIENCE. Pasadena City College is seeking a new associate dean with the stipulation that applicants must have experience working with “queer communities,” according to the posted job description. Read more here.

MOM BANNED FROM SCHOOL GROUNDS AFTER PROTESTING LGBT ‘PRIDE.’ An Oregon mother is suing Portland Public Schools for banning her from her children’s elementary school for protesting its promotion of LGBT pride. Read more here.

FEDERAL JUDGE KILLS TEXAS DRAG SHOW BAN. A federal judge struck down a 2023 Texas law, ruling that the state cannot enforce its drag show ban as it violated the First Amendment’s guarantee of free speech. Read more here.

CANADA UNVEILS 30-FOOT-TALL ‘2SLGBTQI+ MONUMENT.’ On August 21, dignitaries gathered near the intersection of Wellington Street and Portage Bridge in Ottawa, Ontario, to unveil Thunderhead, billed as Canada’s “first national 2SLGBTQI+ monument.” Read more here.

PLANNED PARENTHOOD WHISTLEBLOWER CLAIMS SHE WAS FIRED FOR REPORTING ‘ILLEGAL’ ABORTION. Jacqueline C. Colyer was formerly the vice president of human resources for Planned Parenthood Great Rivers in Illinois, and after reporting an illegal 28-week late-term abortion at a Planned Parenthood facility, she was fired for alleged “insubordination and dishonesty.” Read more here.

ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ADVANCES FREE SPEECH, BIOLOGICAL TRUTH IN 2026 SESSION. Alliance Defending Freedom, in collaboration with its sister organization ADF Action, announced engagement on more than 250 state and federal bills advancing freedoms during the 2026 legislative session, including dozens that became law. Read more here.

SINGAPORE TO PAY NEW PARENTS £40,000 PER CHILD IN DESPERATE BID TO COUNTER PLUNGING BIRTH RATE. The measure has been announced by the government to try and persuade young people to start a family after Singapore registered a record-low fertility rate last year.. Read more here.

ONLY IN LOS ANGELES: TAXPAYER-FUNDED ‘SEXUAL RELIEF CLINICS’ FOR THE HOMELESS PROPOSED. A private citizen used public comment time at a Los Angeles City Council meeting to propose “sexual relief clinics” for homeless people, spaces where they could pleasure themselves or have consensual sex rather than engage in such behavior on public streets. Read more here.

STUDY CONFIRMS LIBERALS HAVE FEWER KIDS THAN CONSERVATIVES. The report, based on survey results from more than 7,000 Americans aged 18-54, shows statistically significant gaps between ideology types in both the number of children adults currently have and the number of children they want, and the gap is due, at least in part, to higher fears about parenting among liberals. Read more here.

ENES FREEDOM TO NEWSMAX: WILL DOMINATE WNBA IN NAME OF EQUALITY, by Sam Barron. “Former NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom told Newsmax on Tuesday he simply wants the WNBA to define what a woman is. Freedom has said he is declaring for the 2027 WNBA Draft, claiming to identify as a woman, after he looked at the league’s collective bargaining agreement and found it doesn’t specify what a woman is.” Read more here.

WHEN YOU HEAR ‘NORMALIZE X,’ RUN THE OTHER DIRECTION, by David Strom. “One of the most dangerous words in the English language is ‘normalize,’ as in ‘normalize transgenderism.’ It shouldn’t be. People in the normal world use it to mean pretty basic things, like making graphs with different scales conform to a common one. But in contemporary parlance, what it means is something quite different: to change the Overton Window of acceptable behavior or beliefs to include things that ordinary people consider, usually correctly, to be well outside the bounds of ‘normal’ behavior.” Read more here.

‘BABY CANCELLED’: WHAT A VIRAL, FAKE ABORTION POST REVEALED ABOUT ABORTION ATTITUDES, by Nancy Flanders. “With just eight total Instagram posts and over 28,000 followers, an account holder called ‘Moraa’ recently scammed the internet with a fake abortion story — one that exposed how abortion on demand is growing in acceptance. …The Instagram post, labeled as ‘AI content,’ stated, ‘A Baby Don’t Keep Me’ and included an image featuring typical baby announcement objects curated by AI. But instead of announcing a baby, it announced an abortion. ‘Baby Cancelled,’ it said.” Read more here.

BARBARISM BEGINS AT HOME, by Jude Russo. “Massachusetts’s Gov. Maura Healey on August 10 signed a new law giving doctors the prerogative to perform late-term abortions based on their own medical judgment in the Bay State, where previously abortion had been limited to the 24th week of pregnancy barring medical exceptions explicit in the statute. The usual suspects (shirts) hailed this measure as a blow for freedom, health, human empowerment, The Cause of Women, and all that jazz. The usual suspects (skins) denounced it as an assault on the dignity of the person, an attack on society’s most vulnerable, and so on.” Read more here.

GAY PRIDE 2026: LEADERS CONFESSED LOSING CONTROL OF THEIR MOVEMENT, by Glenn T. Stanton. “The gay program, now actually operating as ‘queer pride,’ is built on an intentionally radical and incoherent anthropology. It cannot cohere because it set out, from day one, to challenge the most fundamental truth of being human: the universal telos of man and woman and the biological and cultural fact that they require each other, that they find their fullest natural meaning in the other. The first irrefutable fact of life is that humanity doesn’t work anywhere without this beautifully profound and complementary mystery.” Read more here.

ABORTION NOW LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH IN SCOTLAND, A NEW ANALYSIS OF DATA HAS REVEALED, by Society for the Protection of Unborn Children. “According to the most recent data published by Public Health Scotland, there were 18,783 terminations of pregnancy recorded in a single year. …When these figures are integrated into wider human mortality data from the National Records of Scotland—where all cancers combined accounted for 16,486 deaths recorded in Scotland in 2025, ischaemic heart disease for 7,000 deaths and dementia accounting for 6,612 deaths—the loss of unborn life stands as the highest single source of mortality in the nation.” Read more here.

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