Family Watch Newswire

July 25, 2025

TRUMP ADMINISTRATION REJECTS WHO AMENDMENTS THAT THREATENED PRO-LIFE LAWS AND MORE. The Trump administration officially rejected amendments to the World Health Organization’s International Health Regulations agreed upon by member nations at the World Health Assembly in June 2024, which could have threatened local pro-life legal protections. Read more here.

JUDGE PARTIALLY BLOCKS TENNESSEE LAW BANNING ADULTS FROM HELPING MINORS GET ABORTIONS. Known for prohibiting “abortion trafficking of a minor,” the law enacted in 2024 criminalizes certain behavior toward pregnant, unemancipated minors by adults who are not their parents or legal guardians who help them have abortions – even if the abortion is legal in another state. Read more here.

PIONEERING IN-WOMB SURGERY SAVES LIFE OF NOTTINGHAM ‘MIRACLE BABY.’ A baby girl from Nottingham is alive and well today, thanks to life-saving treatment performed while she was still in the womb to overcome a potentially fatal fluid build-up. Read more here.

SUPREME COURT TAKES MAJOR CASE AS ACLJ FIGHTS TO DEFEND PRO-LIFE CENTERS AGAINST THE LEFT’S UNCONSTITUTIONAL ATTACKS. The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear First Choice Women’s Resource Centers v. Platkin, challenging unconstitutional investigations by the New Jersey attorney general into Pregnancy Resource Centers, accusing them of so-called “deceptive” practices, simply because these centers offer alternatives to abortion and support women during pregnancy. Read more here.

NEW POLL SHOWS PERCENTAGE OF AMERICANS WHO ARE PRO-LIFE JUMPS 7 PERCENT. The Associated Press and the NORC Center for Public Affairs Research released the results of a poll of more than 1,400 adults, and the results indicate that the percentage of adults who think abortion should be illegal in “all cases” or “most cases” increased by seven percentage points since June 2024. Read more here.

BIDEN FBI SPIED EXTENSIVELY ON PRO-LIFE CATHOLICS, CALLED THEM ‘VIOLENT EXTREMISTS.’ According to a July 22 press release from a committee under the leadership of FBI Director Kash Patel, the FBI has turned over more than 1,300 pages of internal documents detailing the agency’s wide-ranging surveillance of Catholics during the Biden administration. Read more here.

GERMAN BISHOPS LOOKING TO PROMOTE GENDER IDEOLOGY IN SCHOOLS. German bishops are planning to introduce guidelines for Catholic schools promoting radical gender ideology without questioning its horrendous consequences for children. Read more here.

CHILDREN’S HOSPITALS NATIONALLY END TRANSGENDER SURGERIES ON MINORS AMID TRUMP RULES. Agency Hospital systems and individual hospitals in California, New York, Washington, D.C., Colorado, Illinois, Pennsylvania and other states have announced changes in recent weeks in how they treat children who believe they are the opposite sex, and some transgender clinics are shutting down entirely. Read more here.

HEALTH CARE PROVIDER PUTS STOP TO TRANS SURGERIES ON KIDS. Health care provider Kaiser Permanente confirmed that it was pausing all transgender surgeries for patients under the age of 19 in response to pressure from the Trump administration. Read more here.

U. KANSAS STAFF REQUIRED TO REMOVE GENDER PRONOUNS FROM EMAILS. The University of Kansas staff is now required to remove gender pronouns from their email signatures to comply with a new Board of Regents directive, the school announced. Read more here.

KIM DAVIS AGAIN ASKS SUPREME COURT TO HEAR HER CASE, HOPES TO OVERTURN SAME-SEX MARRIAGE. Former Rowan County clerk Kim Davis, who was briefly jailed for denying marriage licenses to homosexual couples a decade ago, has again asked the Supreme Court to hear her appeal in hopes of overturning the nationwide right to same-sex marriage. Read more here.

MARRIAGE UNDER ATTACK IN POLAND AS LEFTISTS PUSH ‘CIVIL PARTNERSHIPS’ FOR HOMOSEXUALS. Had a draft law on civil partnerships passed, Polish law would have granted same-sex couples tax privileges similar to those enjoyed by married couples, as well as the right to receive a widow’s pension for a homosexual partner, allowed joint custody of children adopted by partners and it would have regulated the granting of the last name of the biological parent’s homosexual partner to a child. Read more here.

TRUMP’S ‘BIG, BEAUTIFUL BILL’ FORCES FIVE PLANNED PARENTHOOD CLINICS TO CLOSE IN NORTHERN CA. Five Planned Parenthood facilities are being forced to close in Northern California as a result of President Donald Trump’s “One Big, Beautiful Bill,” which prevents state Medicaid programs from funding groups that also provide abortion services. Read more here.

9TH CIRCUIT COURT REJECTS GENDER-IDEOLOGY MANDATE FOR ADOPTION, OREGON MOM NOW FREE TO CARE FOR KIDS IN NEED. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit ruled that an Oregon mother is free to begin the process of adopting siblings from foster care without violating her religious beliefs about human sexuality while her lawsuit against state officials continues. Read more here.

UN WOMEN’S RIGHTS CZAR FIGHTS BACK AGAINST TRANS-FEMINIST SMEARS, by Stefano Gennarini. “Media and advocacy organizations paid to promote gender ideology are viciously attacking a top UN women’s rights expert because she is against gender ideology. She is not cowering. She is fighting back. ‘To label advocates for women’s rights like me, and thousands of others, as mouthpieces of extremist, right-wing agendas proves precisely the point that I made in my report,’ said Reem Alsalem, the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, in response to the latest attack in an article published in Geneva Solutions, a UN-satellite media group.” Read more here.

PRO-LIFE LAWS DIDN’T KILL IZABELA—MEDICAL INCOMPETENCE DID, by Jonathon Van Maren. “Three Polish doctors have been found guilty in connection with the death of a 30-year-old pregnant woman named Izabela, who died of sepsis and became a symbol for massive abortion protests across the nation. In September 2021, Izabela was admitted to the hospital in Pszyncyna in southern Poland at 22 weeks pregnant; her unborn child had severe developmental defects. She requested an abortion and was denied due to Poland’s pro-life laws. As the BBC reported, ‘Her family said life-saving care was delayed because the doctors feared breaking abortion laws. An investigation ruled that was not the case, but they were found guilty of directly endangering her life.’” Read more here.

NO, OBAMA, YOUNG MEN DON’T NEED GAY MALE MENTORS IN THEIR LIVES, by Adam B. Coleman. “It’s always a red flag when a person speaking feels the need to tear down, minimize, or discredit someone just before they prop up someone else in their place. It suggests that the person waving the flag knows their new idol can’t compete on its merit and feels they must remove the competition in advance. Recently, Barack Obama acted as the flag bearer as he championed gay men as a necessity for boys to be around, while simultaneously minimizing the capabilities of fathers around the country.” Read more here.

BBC ‘CHILD PRESENTER’ RECRUITING CHILDREN TO ESCORT TRANS ADULTS INTO BATHROOMS, by David Strom. “Trans people are asking children to escort them to their preferred bathroom in the UK. You read that right. Males will be escorting men to women’s bathrooms–by children–in order to scare off anybody who objects to their invading female spaces. Adult men, bringing young girls into women’s bathrooms. And this BBC presenter is helping start a program to make it happen. ‘A BBC TV presenter has launched a new campaign calling on UK workplaces and schools to make visible commitments to trans inclusion.” Read more here.

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