Family Watch Newswire
The Family Watch Newswire is a service of Family Watch International that highlights important news items and useful analysis on the family and family-related issues from around the world.
January 30, 2026
PRO-ABORTION BILL IN IRELAND WOULD DENY WOMEN INFO, KILL MORE BABIES. People Before Profit-Solidarity TD Ruth Coppinger brought forward another abortion-related bill in the Dáil, this time aimed at removing the mandatory three-day waiting period. Read more here.
VA STOPS ABORTING BABIES AFTER TRUMP ISSUES NEW POLICY. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has halted the abortion of unborn babies at its facilities nationwide, complying with a Justice Department opinion that restores longstanding federal prohibitions on taxpayer-funded abortions for veterans and overturns a 2022 Biden administration policy that had expanded abortion access within the VA system. Read more here.
KENTUCKY AG INVESTIGATING ABORTION PILL ADS PLACED AT GAS STATIONS BY NEW YORK GROUP. The office of Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman is investigating a scheme to promote illegal mail-order abortion pills advertised through six gas stations across the state. Read more here.
ALASKA USED TAX DOLLARS FOR ELECTIVE ABORTIONS AGAINST FEDERAL LAW. According to the Alaska Watchman, Alaska used federal Medicaid tax dollars to pay for elective abortions for several months following the enactment of the Big Beautiful Bill (HR 1), which prohibited the funds for abortion providers (like Planned Parenthood) which met certain criteria. Read more here.
TEXAS TECH CANCELS PRESENTATION BY THIRD-TRIMESTER ABORTIONIST AFTER OUTCRY. Texas Tech University had planned to host longtime third-trimester abortionist Shelly Sella for a presentation promoting her new book — until pro-life advocates noted that the presentation would be promoting illegal activity in the state. Read more here.
ADMISSION BY FORMER TRANS PUSHER IS SHOCKING. Case manager Jamie Reed helped facilitate the chemical and surgical mutilation of more than 1,500 children at St. Louis Children’s Hospital in Missouri before her conscience forced her to blow the whistle on the “gender transition” industry for allegedly committing insurance fraud while willfully deceiving parents and children and taking advantage of mentally ill children, just to make a profit. Read more here.
ED DEPARTMENT: CALIFORNIA VIOLATED FAMILY RIGHTS LAW BY SECRETLY ‘TRANSITIONING’ STUDENTS. The U.S. Department of Education found the California Department of Education (CDE) in violation of federal family rights law for facilitating the gender ‘transition’ of children and hiding it from their parents. Read more here.
SAN JOSÉ STATE UNIVERSITY IN VIOLATION OF TITLE IX OVER TRANS ATHLETES. The U.S. Department of Education announced that San José State University is in violation of Title IX for allowing transgender-identifying males into female sports and spaces. Read more here.
JUDGES WEIGH TITLE IX FUNDING FIGHT OVER VIRGINIA SCHOOLS’ PRO-TRANSGENDER BATHROOM POLICIES. A federal appeals court weighed the Trump administration’s use of federal education funding to pressure two major Northern Virginia school systems to abandon policies allowing students who identify as transgender to use bathrooms and locker rooms of their choosing. Read more here.
RESPECT TRANS PATIENTS! OFFICIAL UK GUIDANCE URGES AVOIDING ‘SIR’ AND ‘MADAM.’ The NHS staff at Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Trust have been advised to stop addressing patients as “sir” or “madam” to avoid offending transgender individuals. Read more here.
TACOMA CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL CLOSES GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE CLINIC. MultiCare’s Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital in Tacoma, Washington confirmed it will stop conducting “gender transition” procedures on confused minors. Read more here.
CONSERVATIVES MOBILIZE TO OVERTURN OBERGEFELL. A coalition of 47 conservative organizations is launching a campaign to challenge the Supreme Court’s 2015 ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, which the groups claim redefined marriage to emphasize the desires of adults over the needs of children. Read more here.
FREE LGBTQ+ CLASS HOSTED BY UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA PULLED OFFLINE AFTER QUESTIONS ABOUT TAXPAYER FUNDING. LGBTQ+ 101 is a free, self-paced course hosted on UCF’s official Canvas platform and administered through the Ginsburg Center for Inclusion and Community Engagement. The class had raised alarms about improper use of tax dollars. Read more here.
UC-DAVIS LGBTQIA CENTER PROMOTES ‘MENSTRUAL MUTUAL AID’ WORKSHOP FOR ‘NON-CIS MENSTRUATORS.’ The University of California, Davis, event Menstrual Mutual Aid was a hands-on workshop that centered on the experiences of non-cis menstruators while claiming to promote sustainable, inclusive menstrual and pelvic care in alignment with Menstrual Health and Awareness Day. Read more here.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY SPRING COURSES INCLUDE ‘QUEERING HEALTH’ AND ‘THINKING QUEERLY.’ Boston University’s Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies department is offering several courses for the spring 2026 semester that focus on LGBT topics, including Thinking Queerly, Queering Health, according to the University’s official spring course listings. Read more here.
FLORIDA COMMITTEE PASSES BILL TO DEFUND PLANNED PARENTHOOD. A Florida House committee has advanced legislation to cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood, a key victory for pro-life advocates seeking to protect taxpayers from subsidizing the abortion business and to save more unborn babies’ lives. Read more here.
PRO-LIFE GROUP PETITIONS U.S. SUPREME COURT AFTER SCHOOL REFUSED ‘DEFUND PLANNED PARENTHOOD’ POSTER. The Noblesville Students for Life club is sending a petition to the Supreme Court after school officials allegedly censored posters with pro-life messaging. Read more here.
NEW SURVEY: MOST AMERICANS SUPPORT RELIGIOUS LIBERTY IN THE PUBLIC SQUARE. 57 percent of Americans agree that religious freedom is inherently public, and that Americans should be free to share their faith in public spaces, such as at school, work or on social media — a five-point rise since 2020, according to a Becket study. Read more here.
GHANA’S REVISED NACCA SEXUALITY GUIDELINES WORSE THAN WITHDRAWN VERSION. Old Tafo Member of Parliament, Vincent Ekow Assafuah, has criticised the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NaCCA), saying a revised teachers’ manual on sexuality education is more problematic than the version withdrawn after public backlash. Read more here.
ESTONIA WARNED IT MAY HAVE JUST FIVE YEARS TO REVERSE POPULATION COLLAPSE. Experts warn that Estonia has just a few years to reverse its declining birth rate, and the government is being encouraged to take action to spur more people to embrace families and parenthood. Read more here.
IT’S TIME TO END THE SELF-SERVING PARENT REGRET ‘JOURNALISM,’ by Arthur Schaper. “A disturbing trend has emerged in current online commentary: confessions of parent-regret. A growing number of parents are writing about how they hate being parents, and there’s a growing readership for this petty schadenfreude. I presume there’s some small pleasure for readers, specifically those who chose not to have a family, because they can say to themselves: ‘I made the right decision, sparing myself their rancid domesticity!’” Read more here.
TRUMP ENDS ALL FOREIGN ABORTION/GENDER SPENDING, by Lisa Correnti. “The Trump administration issued new massive restrictions on U.S. foreign assistance that will end all direct and indirect funding of abortion, diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), and gender ideology overseas. Vice President J.D. Vance unveiled the ‘historic expansion’ of the Mexico City Policy last Friday at the March for Life in Washington, D.C.” Read more here.
OBERGEFELL HAS HARMED CHILDREN FOR FAR TOO LONG, by Katy Faust. “It has been ten years since the Supreme Court issued its Obergefell v. Hodges decision mandating that states allow same-sex marriage. Save a long shot attempt by County Clerk Kim Davis, no group has attempted any kind of legal challenge to the ruling. Until now. The nonprofit organization that I founded and run, Them Before Us, is spearheading a coalition to overturn Obergefell on the grounds that it victimizes children.” Read more here.
TEACHING YOUR DAUGHTERS TO ASPIRE TO MARRIAGE AND FAMILY IS A GOOD THING, by Amanda Freebairn. “For years, popular stories in the media landscape have treated commitment, and in particular family life, as the thing a serious young woman must outgrow in order to become her best self. Girls hear the message early: Don’t build your life around love and family too soon or you’ll drown in drudgery. Encouraging marriage and family, on the other hand, has been seen as cringe and religiously fundamentalist, at best — and, at worst, as dangerous and misogynistic.” Read more here.
MARRIAGE HAS BECOME AMERICA’S NEWEST PARTISAN BATTLEGROUND, by Steven Taff. ”Highlighting a shift in how Americans are investing in “connection,” OnlyFans model Sophie Rain recently announced she has earned $100 million in revenue since 2024. Instead of investing in a lifelong relationship and the unification of two souls, it is becoming glaringly obvious that the once-revered institution of marriage is no longer the finish line for a generation choosing temporary transactions over permanent foundations.” Read more here.
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