Family Watch Newswire

May 15, 2026

U.S. SUPREME COURT PRESERVES ABORTION PILL ACCESS OVER ALITO, THOMAS DISSENTS. Abortion pills can remain available through the mail for the immediate future after the Supreme Court on Thursday paused a lower court ruling that would have blocked access while a lawsuit proceeds. Read more here.

JUSTICE ALITO: MAIL ORDER ABORTIONS UNDERMINE STATE ABORTION BANS. The U.S. Supreme Court temporarily allowed the abortion drug mifepristone to continue being prescribed remotely and shipped over state lines, but Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito both dissented, arguing that the Supreme Court should have denied the stays and blocked the remote prescribing and dispensing of mifepristone while litigation continues in the Fifth Circuit. Read more here.

JUSTICE THOMAS CONFIRMS COMSTOCK ACT BANS MAIL-ORDER ABORTIONS. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas commented that the Comstock Act bans using the mail to ship any “drug…for producing abortion” and “[Drug companies] are not entitled to a stay of an adverse court order based on lost profits from their criminal enterprise.” Read more here.

MINNESOTA’S DEMOCRAT AG REFUSES TO PUBLISH ALLEGED COMPLAINTS AGAINST PRO-LIFE PREGNANCY CENTERS. Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison has called the services offered by life-saving pregnancy resource centers “misleading” and “potentially deceptive,” but his office is blocking public access to records that would show whether or not anyone has ever actually complained about them. Read more here.

NEW FEDERAL PROBE EXAMINES WHETHER TAXPAYER DOLLARS FUND CHILD GENDER TRANSITIONS, LEGAL DEFENSES. Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., asked two Rhode Island health care providers to explain reports saying they provided puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, surgical referrals or related services to patients under 19 years old. Read more here.

PAXTON FORCES TEXAS CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL TO OPEN FIRST-OF-ITS-KIND ‘DETRANS’ CLINIC, FIRE WOKE DOCTORS, PAY BACK $10 MILLION FOR BILLING MEDICAID FOR CHILD ‘SEX CHANGES.’ Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has secured a $10 million settlement in a case against Texas Children’s Hospital over illegal “sex changes” in the form of surgeries and prescriptions being given to minors, and the hospital will also be forced to fund a “detransition” clinic and treat those patients free of charge for the first five years. Read more here.

FOUNDER OF WOMEN-ONLY APP IN AUSTRALIA ORDERED TO PAY UP TO $120,000 TO TRANS-IDENTIFIED MALE FOR RECOGNIZING HIM AS A MAN. Entrepreneur and founder of a women’s-only application Sall Grover has been ordered to pay $20,000, with an additional maximum of $100,000 in court fees, to a trans-identified male after he was denied access to the platform. Read more here.

CALIFORNIA GIRLS TRACK STAR OPENS UP ON VIRAL PODIUM PROTEST OF TRANS OPPONENT. Crean Lutheran High School girls’ track and field star Reese Hogan went viral one year ago after stepping up from second place to the top spot on a medal podium to protest a trans athlete who beat her in the triple jump, and now she is set to face off against that same trans athlete in the very same round of the postseason this weekend. Read more here.

UTAH TRANS KILLER MIA BAILEY TOLD POLICE HE SHOT PARENTS BECAUSE MOTHER ‘SABOTAGED’ HIS ‘SEX CHANGE’ SURGERY. Footage of Mia Bailey—a trans-identified male from Utah who pleaded guilty to killing both his parents—has shown him confessing to police in an interrogation where he blamed the brutal killing on his mother for supposedly thwarting him from getting “sex change” surgery. Read more here.

COLORADO PASSES NEW CONVERSION THERAPY BAN IN ATTEMPT TO GET AROUND SUPREME COURT BLOCK. The Colorado Legislature passed legislation allowing residents to sue mental health providers for “injury” stemming from “conversion” therapy for unwanted same-sex attraction or gender confusion, hoping to get around the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling against their previous outright ban on the practice. Read more here.

INDIANA SUPREME COURT REJECTS PLANNED PARENTHOOD CHALLENGE TO STATE ABORTION BAN. The Indiana Supreme Court ruled almost unanimously to reject Planned Parenthood’s bid to transfer jurisdiction in its challenge to the state’s abortion ban, allowing a lower court ruling upholding the law to stand. Read more here.

PROSTITUTES OUTRAGED AT CONFERENCE CANCELLATION. After a human rights conference in Zambia was abruptly cancelled, a spokesman for the International Planned Parenthood Federation said: “spaces like RightsCon 2026 are critical for communities who are already pushed to the margins, including sex workers, LGBTQIA+ people, and those seeking sexual and reproductive healthcare.” Read more here.

OREGON GOVERNOR GIVES PLANNED PARENTHOOD PERMANENT FUNDING TO ABORT BABIES. Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek signed legislation to permanently direct millions in state taxpayer dollars to Planned Parenthood as a way of replacing federal Medicaid funding blocked by the Trump administration. Read more here.

HARVARD TO BAN ‘RELIGIOUS WORSHIP’ IN NEW BUILDING TO SECURE $675M IN PUBLIC BONDS. To qualify for the financing, Harvard agreed that “no part of the Project, so long as it is owned or controlled by the Institution, shall be used for any sectarian instruction or as a place of religious worship.” Read more here.

THE FAMILY SHAPES HEALTH BEFORE GOVERNMENT EVER DOES, by Valerie Huber. “Walk through a community center in rural Ohio, a village clinic in Uganda, or a maternity ward in Honduras, and you’ll see the same quiet truth. A healthy child was usually carried by a mother who was nourished and supported. A girl who finishes school was encouraged at a kitchen table long before she was encouraged in a classroom. Long before a ministry of health writes a policy, the family has already been shaping one. That’s why, on May 15, the world recognizes the International Day of Families. It is also a reminder that women’s health cannot be separated from the strength of the family itself.” Read more here.

THE TEXAS MEDICAL ASSOCIATION STAYS THE COURSE OF GENDER MEDICINE, by Joseph Figliolia. “Last month, at their annual conference, members of the Texas Medical Association met to develop and approve policies, spearheaded by the organization’s 400-member House of Delegates. Yet despite a changing scientific and legal landscape—with the American Society of Plastic Surgeon’s position statement acknowledging the ‘low quality/low certainty’ evidence underpinning youth gender medicine, and the $2 million payout to detransitioner Fox Varian—the conference reflected a continuation of the gender medicine status quo at TMA.” Read more here.

IN ITS HIT PIECE ON ME, THE SEATTLE TIMES PROVES I’M RIGHT ABOUT OBERGEFELL, by Katy Faust. “On Mother’s Day, The Seattle Times published a front-page article warning readers about me — a Seattle mother of four whose central heresy is believing children have a right to their mother and father and should not be bought and sold. Reporter Jim Brunner identified my neighborhood, church, salary, family history, and upcoming speaking event. He contacted former employees, our board chair, and even my husband while he was deployed in the Pacific.” Read more here.

AMERICAN IDOL’S ‘STRING CHEESE’ SONG IS THE PRO-FAMILY ANTHEM WE NEED, by J.P. De Gance. “An unassuming 25-year-old stay-at-home mom from rural Missouri was crowned the winner of American Idol over the weekend. She didn’t win with a power ballad or a showstopper cover. She won with a song about reheating her coffee for the third time. About Hot Wheels on the floor. About postpartum depression — and the small hand that reached up from the couch and asked, ‘Mama, can you open my string cheese?’” Read more here.

ABANDON THE FRAGILE FEMINIST MONOCULTURE MAKING MEN AND WOMEN MISERABLE, by Carrie Gress. “The newly released novel, Yesteryear, by Caro Claire Burke, features a tradwife who gets transported back to the 19th century to live a truly trad life. …Already a New York Times bestseller, the novel is set to be adapted for film by Anne Hathaway. It takes little imagination to anticipate how the film adaptation will go: Much like the dystopian vision of The Handmaid’s Tale, it will amount to a scolding for those lacking gratitude for feminism.” Read more here.

ABORTION PILLS DON’T JUST END BABIES’ LIVES, THEY CAN ALMOST KILL MOTHERS TOO, by Jonathon Van Maren. “A 25-year-old nursing student is condemning the Trump-Vance administration for allowing abortion pills to remain accessible by mail, saying that taking the pills put her in a coma and almost killed her. The fight over whether abortion pills can be mailed from pro-life states into pro-abortion states has become the most central battle for the pro-life movement since the overturn of Roe v. Wade.” Read more here.

I WATCHED MY FRIENDS CHANGE THEIR NAMES, BODIES, AND IDENTITIES ALMOST OVERNIGHT, by Brooke Brandtjen. “I saw a lot of my high school friends for the last time in March of 2020 — not because they died from COVID-19, but because they transitioned genders. The names of the people I cared about were no more; those were “dead names.” I watched them step away from lunch tables and afternoons at the park so they could inject themselves with cross-sex hormones.” Read more here.

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