Family Watch Newswire

July 17, 2026

ACTING AG: DOJ WILL ‘COMMIT RESOURCES’ TO END ABORTION PILL WILD WEST. Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche “pledged to take action to stop abortion medication from being available through the mail” during questions regarding his confirmation hearing in a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. Read more here.

CAMPAIGN WILL SHOW BANNERS ON FREEWAYS SAYING ‘ABORTION TAKES A HUMAN LIFE.’ The groups, organized by the Aurora, Illinois-based Pro-Life Action League, will hold their banners during the morning and evening rush hours as part of National Pro-Life Bridges Day, taking place in more than 50 cities throughout the United States. Read more here.

ONE IN SIX PREGNANCIES NOW RESULTS IN ABORTION IN IRELAND, FIGURES REVEAL. New government data have revealed that abortion has become a routine outcome of pregnancy in Ireland, with 1 in 6 pregnancies now ending in abortion and 10,600 abortions performed in 2025 alone. Read more here.

ADULTS ABLE TO POSE AS 13-YEAR-OLD GIRLS TO ORDER DANGEROUS ABORTION PILLS ONLINE. Dr. Christina Francis, a board-certified OB/GYN and CEO of the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists, conducted the review of the online abortion pill seller AidAccess, accessed through the Plan C website. Read more here.

JUDGE REFUSES TO ORDER TRANSGENDER INMATE BE MOVED TO WOMEN’S PRISON. A judge has ruled against Amanda Cooper, a transgender inmate with a lengthy record of sex crimes involving women, refusing his request to order the Correctional Service of Canada to move him from the men’s prison system into a women’s institution. Read more here.

GERMAN TRANS NEO-NAZI TO SERVE TIME IN WOMEN’S PRISON AFTER LAST-MINUTE ‘GENDER SWITCH.’ A convicted German neo-Nazi who “changed gender identities” before being jailed has been sent to a women’s prison, as the country’s self-identification laws come under further strain. Read more here.

NYU SCHOLAR ARGUES PHILOSOPHICAL CASE AGAINST MEN COMPETING IN WOMEN SPORTS. Professor Daniel Kodsi laid out his case for protecting women’s sports in a new paper in the Journal of Controversial Ideas, arguing that philosophy, not “empirical studies,” can prove why men should not be allowed to compete in women’s sports. Read more here.

NORTHEASTERN ILLINOIS GENDER STUDIES MAJOR ENROLLS JUST FOUR STUDENTS. The university had an enrollment of 3,749 undergraduate students in spring 2025, which means that 0.11 percent of the student body was enrolled in the Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies degree. Read more here.

POLISH PRESIDENT VETOES BILL TO UNDERMINE MARRIAGE WITH CIVIL PARTNERSHIPS. Polish President Karol Nawrocki has vetoed a bill to allow unmarried cohabitating couples to establish civil partnerships, arguing it would undermine the unique societal standing of marriage. Read more here.

CHRISTIANS SHUT DOWN BLASPHEMOUS PRO-LGBT ‘NIGHTCLUB’ IN FORMER SYDNEY CHURCH. Christian protestors have successfully shut down a new “LGBTQIA+ pop-up club” being held in a former church in Sydney, Australia, after vigorous rallying to stop what many called “blasphemous” mockery of religious faith. Read more here.

UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO FUNDS RESEARCH ON ‘QUEER THEORY.’ The University at Buffalo’s Gender Institute will fund grant projects with up to $7,000 to advance “scholarship related to women, gender, and sexuality.” Read more here.

PRO-LIFE GROUPS ASK D.C. CIRCUIT TO UPHOLD THEIR FREE SPEECH RIGHT TO CHALK MESSAGE ON CITY SIDEWALK. Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys filed their opening brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, in defense of members of pro-life groups who were arrested for writing messages in chalk on sidewalks outside a Planned Parenthood facility. Read more here.

POLICE CHIEF PROMISES ‘ACCOUNTABILITY’ FOR TEXAS OFFICERS. Fort Worth Police Chief Eddie Garcia said the department was “wrong” when its officers threatened to cite preachers for disorderly conduct based on complaints that their speech offended attendees of the city’s annual Trinity Pride Fest event. Read more here.

PLANNED PARENTHOOD SUES HHS OVER TEEN PREGNANCY ABSTINENCE-ONLY REQUIREMENTS. A coalition of local governments and organizations filed a lawsuit seeking to block the Trump administration’s funding changes to the Teen Pregnancy Prevention program, objecting to the incorporation of abstinence-only education and the reported lack of focus on LGBT-identifying individuals. Read more here.

CNBC: ‘BEST STATES TO LIVE IN’ MUTILATE KIDS, FREE CRIMINALS, TAKE ALL YOUR MONEY, by Chuck Devore. “The headline on CNBC’s shiny new 2026 list screams, ‘Best States to Live In,’ complete with glossy profiles of high-’inclusiveness’ northern enclaves. Don’t be fooled. This isn’t an objective guide for families seeking opportunity and security. It’s the ‘Quality-of-Life-according-to-leftists’ sliver of CNBC’s business competitiveness study. It’s propaganda repackaged as gospel for where Americans should want to raise kids and build lives.” Read more here.

GENDER MEDICINE’S REGULATORY CAPTURE, by Joseph Figliolia. “In late June, the Health Council of the Netherlands, an independent scientific advisory body, issued controversial guidance in support of the so-called ‘Dutch Protocol,’ which provides hormonal interventions to children suffering from gender dysphoria. The protocol, pioneered in the Netherlands in the late 1990s, has been exported around the Western world through clinical practice guidelines developed by the controversial World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH).” Read more here.

V IS FOR VALIDATED, by Bernard Lane. “Child and adolescent psychiatrist Dr Jillian Spencer hopes that the end of disciplinary proceedings against her will encourage other Australian health practitioners to speak up about the harm to children of the gender-affirming treatment model. Earlier today, her former employer issued a statement acknowledging that Dr Spencer’s concerns about the Brisbane-based Queensland Children’s Gender Service ‘were grounded in her training and background as an experienced child and adolescent psychiatrist’.” Read more here.

AMNESTY BACKTRACKS ON UK ‘ANTI-RIGHTS’ REPORT, by Rebecca Oas. “Amnesty International UK hastily pulled down a report calling groups in the United Kingdom that oppose gender ideology and abortion ‘anti-rights.’ Among the groups listed was a support center for women who were victims of sexual violence, which was established with support from author J.K. Rowling.” Read more here.

TRUMP ADMIN TAKES STEP ON RULE BARRING FEDERAL FUNDS FROM HOSPITALS THAT TRANSITION KIDS, by Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell. “When the Trump administration’s rule prohibiting federally funded hospitals from performing child transgender procedures was found missing from the regulatory agenda, conservatives worried the president was backtracking on a key promise. The Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions for 2026 was initially posted without the rule included, but it was added to the agenda on Wednesday afternoon.” Read more here.

NEW NUMBERS REVEAL THE CHILD SEX-CHANGE MANIA IS WORSE THAN WE KNEW, by Dr. Stanley Goldfarb. “The child sex-change craze is worse than almost anyone realizes — and a Colorado hospital just proved it. Recently released court documents show that Children’s Hospital Colorado, affiliated with the University of Colorado School of Medicine, prescribed puberty blockers to more than 250 patients and cross-sex hormones to nearly 550 patients in a single year, 2025. Those are shockingly high numbers — at least 5 to 10 times higher than previously thought.” Read more here.

THE NAACP PROMOTES THE TRANS MADNESS NOW?, by Eric Wallace. “For generations, the NAACP stood as one of America’s most important defenders of human dignity. It confronted segregation, fought racial injustice, and championed equal protection under the law, appealing to the nation’s moral conscience and calling America to live up to its founding ideals.
That moral authority is being squandered.” Read more here.

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