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.
December 3, 2025
SUPREME COURT APPEARS SYMPATHETIC TOWARD PREGNANCY CENTERS IN FIRST AMENDMENT CASE. The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in First Choice Women’s Resource Centers v. Platkin, a case challenging a broad investigative subpoena infringing on the First Amendment rights of a pro-life pregnancy center, and many of the Justices focused their questions on whether New Jersey’s subpoena actually carried an enforcement mechanism to punish First Choice if it didn’t reveal its donor information. Read more here.
JUDGE BLOCKS TRUMP FROM DEFUNDING PLANNED PARENTHOOD IN 22 STATES. U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani issued a preliminary injunction against a provision in Congress’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which bars Medicaid reimbursements to tax-exempt organizations that abort babies and which received more than $800,000 in such funds during fiscal year 2023. Read more here.
APPEALS COURT UPHOLDS FREE SPEECH FOR NY PREGNANCY CENTERS. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit unanimously upheld the free speech rights of 51 New York pro-life pregnancy centers to inform pregnant women about the abortion pill reversal protocol. Read more here.
JOLIET JUNIOR COLLEGE STUDENTS BATTLE ABORTION – AND THEIR ADMINISTRATION. Pro-life students at Joliet Junior College continue to advocate for preborn babies, moms and families despite obstacles they say are being put in place by the administration. Read more here.
MILITARY ABORTIONS DROP TO LOWEST NUMBER IN FIVE YEARS. Abortions among members of the U.S. military and their families have dropped to a five-year low, according to the most recent data available from the United States’ Defense Health Agency. Read more here.
ABORTIONS DOWN 18 PERCENT SINCE TEXAS HEARTBEAT ACT TOOK EFFECT: STUDY. A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) confirms what previous years reports have discovered regarding the positive impact of the Texas Heartbeat Act passed in 2021. Read more here.
EU SURVEY ASKS CHILDREN ABOUT GENDER AND LGBT IDENTITY. The European Union has introduced a new survey for children as young as eight, asking them to declare their gender and sexual identity, a move parental groups warn is part of Brussels’ expanding effort to shape children’s views on gender and family. Read more here.
TRANS APPLICANTS—I.E. MALES—BANNED FROM JOINING GIRLGUIDING AND WOMEN’S INSTITUTE IN UK. Two British organizations, Girlguiding and the Women’s Institute, have decided they will no longer accept people born male who claim to be female as members, and new members “not recorded female at birth will no longer be able to join Girlguiding as new young members.” Read more here.
FIVE ALABAMA UNIVERSITIES KEEP ‘GENDER STUDIES’ AS LAWMAKER CALLS TO SCRAP IT. Five of Alabama’s 14 public universities continue to support “gender studies” departments, and a state representative is questioning the academic discipline of “gender studies,” calling it comprised of “fringe, liberal, extremist beliefs and nonsense.” Read more here.
PRINCETON HIT WITH TITLE IX COMPLAINT OVER GENDER-NEUTRAL COMMUNAL BATHROOMS. Defending Education filed a Title IX complaint against Princeton University over its policy of exclusively gender-neutral communal bathrooms in two residence halls, arguing it violates federal laws against sex discrimination. Read more here.
TEXAS A&M PANEL URGES UNIVERSITY TO REINSTATE PROFESSOR FIRED OVER ‘GENDER IDEOLOGY’ TEACHING. A Texas A&M University faculty appeals panel unanimously ruled that the school shouldn’t have fired Professor Melissa McCoul for teaching “gender ideology” in class and recommended her reinstatement. Read more here.
UK’S NEW LEFT-WING PARTY PLATFORMS TRANS-IDENTIFIED MALE PREVIOUSLY ACCUSED OF SEXUAL MISCONDUCT AT INAUGURAL CONFERENCE. A trans-identified male named Eryn Browning, who previously faced allegations of sexual misconduct with minors appeared as a speaker at a conference for the UK’s newest left-wing party, using his platform to complain of “transphobia.” Read more here.
YOUNG GIRL FORCED TO SHARE BED WITH BOY ON SCHOOL TRIP. Joe and Serena Wailes are suing Jefferson County, Colorado Public Schools in federal court for making their 11-year-old daughter share a bed with a boy on an overnight school trip to Washington, D.C. Read more here.
SEATTLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS TEACHES KINDERGARTENERS THAT BOYS CAN BE GIRLS WITH ‘GENDER BOOK KIT.’ Books included in the indoctrination efforts by Seattle Public Schools feature a “transgender” boy and a character who is “both a boy and a girl,” as well as a character who is “neither a boy nor a girl.” Read more here.
WHO DEMANDS IVF FOR HOMOSEXUALS, PEOPLE IN ‘GENDER-DIVERSE RELATIONSHIPS.’ The World Health Organization recently called for free and easy access to embryo-destroying in-vitro fertilization for everyone, including those in “gender-diverse relationships.” Read more here.
PLANNED PARENTHOOD RESUMES ABORTIONS IN WISCONSIN AFTER SKIRTING FEDERAL FUNDING BAN. Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin is rescheduling abortions after designating itself an “essential community provider,” with the Department of Health and Human Services, in order to claim it is no longer bound by the federal government’s one-year ban on funding for Planned Parenthood. Read more here.
CANADIAN GOVERNMENT SET TO REMOVE RELIGIOUS EXEMPTIONS FROM HATE-SPEECH LAWS. Lawmakers with the Liberal Party of Canada have reportedly struck a deal with the Bloc Québécois party to remove religious exemptions from the national code. Read more here.
TRANS OKLAHOMA U. INSTRUCTOR FACES COMPLAINT AFTER TPUSA CHAPTER CALLS OUT FAILING GENDER ESSAY GRADE GIVEN TO CHRISTIAN STUDENT. A student from the University of Oklahoma has filed a discrimination report after she received a grade of 0 from a transgender graduate assistant instructor for citing the Bible in her essay in response to an article on gender stereotypes. Read more here.
ADELAIDE MOTHER TO TAKE LEGAL ACTION AFTER TEEN DAUGHTER EXPOSED TO ‘DISTURBING’ SEX ED CONTENT. Following a presentation that exposed Year 9 girls – including her daughter, aged 14 – to highly inappropriate and explicit sexual content without parental knowledge or consent, Nicki Gaylard has withdrawn her children from school in Adelaide, Australia and is ready to take legal action against the Department for Education. Read more here.
WIN FOR CHILDREN: GOVERNMENTS VOTE TO REMOVE ‘SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH’ LANGUAGE. In the Third Committee of the UN General Assembly, 48 governments voted in favor of removing “sexual and reproductive health” language from a resolution on children. Read more here.
STUDENTS FORCED TO VIEW PORNOGRAPHIC ‘ART’ IN CLASS. The American Center for Law and Justice is defending families after the Watertown, New York school district exposed seventh-grade students to pornographic images under the guise of an “art lesson” and then attempted to downplay what happened. Read more here.
SCOUTING AMERICA ACCUSED BY U.S. WAR DEPARTMENT OF ‘ATTACKING BOY-FRIENDLY SPACES.’ U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is preparing to cut all ties between the military and Scouting America because the organization has become genderless and promotes diversity, equity and inclusion while distancing itself from the mission to cultivate masculine values. Read more here.
ACTIVISTS ARE RE-DEFINING ‘GENDER’ TO SAVE A COLLAPSING NARRATIVE, by Colin Wright. “Over the last decade, academic biology has been under full-scale ideological assault by activists pursuing the narrow political goal of convincing the public that the biology of sex has undergone a revolution. Whereas biologists traditionally viewed the reproductive categories of male and female as a strict binary, these activists and ideologically captured scientists now claim that modern biology has abandoned this overly ‘simplistic’ view in favor of a more complex model involving myriad traits that fall on a continuum.” Read more here.
THE LGBT MOVEMENT THINKS IT OWNS EUROPE, by Jonathon Van Maren. “Just before the Polish presidential debate on April 11, Karol Nawrocki placed a Polish flag on his lectern. ‘I will represent it,’ he said. Then, he walked across the stage to his liberal opponent Rafał Trzaskowski’s podium and set an LGBT flag in front of him. ‘I also have for Mr. Rafal Trzaskowski [The LGBT flag] because he has been running away from this symbolism,’ he added, as Trzaskowski swiftly stashed the flag out of sight. The moment went viral immediately because Nawrocki had, in a single, brilliant gesture, highlighted a primary source of power in Europe: the LGBT movement.” Read more here.
CDC WON’T RELEASE UPDATED ABORTION FIGURES UNTIL NEXT YEAR, by Michael New Ph.D. “Thanksgiving week is an interesting week for those in the pro-life movement. That is because we eagerly anticipate the release of updated abortion data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Indeed, every year since 2011, the CDC has maintained the odd practice of releasing updated abortion data the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. …Last week, the CDC failed to release updated abortion data. …The delay is disappointing. The most recent abortion data available from the CDC are from 2022. As such, there is no CDC abortion data from any full year after the Dobbs decision.” Read more here.
EVIDENCE BACKS THE TRANSGENDER SOCIAL-CONTAGION HYPOTHESIS, by Colin Wright. “I was an academic scientist at Penn State in February 2020, when I became the target of an online mob for tweeting about transgender identity. I shared a link to an article from the Guardian with the accompanying quote: ‘Sweden’s Board of Health and Welfare confirmed a 1,500% rise between 2008 and 2018 in gender dysphoria diagnoses among 13- to 17-year-olds born as girls.’ My commentary was brief: ‘Two words: social contagion.’” Read more here.
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