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 29, 2025
NEW PUERTO RICO LAW SAYS UNBORN BABIES ARE PEOPLE FROM CONCEPTION. Signed into law by Governor Jenniffer González Colón, PS 504 amends Puerto Rico’s Civil Code to recognize the unborn child as a “natural person” from conception for civil purposes, such as inheritance or other favorable rights. Read more here.
400 GIRLS HAVE BEEN KILLED IN SEX-SELECTION ABORTIONS IN THE UK. As newly revealed evidence from the UK government suggests for the first time in government statistics that at least 400 sex-selective abortions have taken place in the UK, the UK’s largest abortion provider, BPAS, has been caught publishing advice telling women that sex-selective abortion is not illegal. Read more here.
NEW YORK GOVERNOR SIGNS NEW LAW TO PROTECT ABORTIONISTS, CHILD GENDER MUTILATORS. New York Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a bill to strengthen the state’s “shield” for abortion and “gender transition” practices, making New York even more of a haven for abortion-on-demand and transgenderism. Read more here.
NEW JERSEY DEMOCRATS PASS BILL THAT WILL HELP SEX TRAFFICKERS. The bill limits how automated license plate reader data may be shared in interstate investigations related to abortion services, creating an unprecedented and politically driven exception in New Jersey law by requiring written declarations from other states before data can be shared. Read more here.
NEW JERSEY GOVERNOR PHIL MURPHY SPENDS $22 MILLION FUNDING ABORTIONS. Governor Murphy announced a $22 million funding commitment to “protect and grow” access to abortion through what his administration calls the Reproductive Health Access Fund, an abortion slush fund designed to funnel taxpayer dollars to abortion providers. Read more here.
PRO-ABORTION POLITICIANS IN NEW SOUTH WALES WANT TO FORCE DOCTORS TO PERFORM ABORTIONS. A pro-abortion coalition in New South Wales, Australia, has proposed a set of new guidelines urging lawmakers to remove or redefine conscientious objection protections for healthcare workers regarding abortion, contending that that the decision would broaden access to abortion. Read more here.
NEW PUERTO RICO LAW SAYS UNBORN BABIES ARE PEOPLE FROM CONCEPTION. Signed into law by Governor Jenniffer González Colón, PS 504 amends Puerto Rico’s Civil Code to recognize the unborn child as a “natural person” from conception for civil purposes, such as inheritance or other favorable rights. Read more here.
400 GIRLS HAVE BEEN KILLED IN SEX-SELECTION ABORTIONS IN THE UK. As newly revealed evidence from the UK government suggests for the first time in government statistics that at least 400 sex-selective abortions have taken place in the UK, the UK’s largest abortion provider, BPAS, has been caught publishing advice telling women that sex-selective abortion is not illegal. Read more here.
NEW YORK GOVERNOR SIGNS NEW LAW TO PROTECT ABORTIONISTS, CHILD GENDER MUTILATORS. New York Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a bill to strengthen the state’s “shield” for abortion and “gender transition” practices, making New York even more of a haven for abortion-on-demand and transgenderism. Read more here.
NEW JERSEY DEMOCRATS PASS BILL THAT WILL HELP SEX TRAFFICKERS. The bill limits how automated license plate reader data may be shared in interstate investigations related to abortion services, creating an unprecedented and politically driven exception in New Jersey law by requiring written declarations from other states before data can be shared. Read more here.
NEW JERSEY GOVERNOR PHIL MURPHY SPENDS $22 MILLION FUNDING ABORTIONS. Governor Murphy announced a $22 million funding commitment to “protect and grow” access to abortion through what his administration calls the Reproductive Health Access Fund, an abortion slush fund designed to funnel taxpayer dollars to abortion providers. Read more here.
PRO-ABORTION POLITICIANS IN NEW SOUTH WALES WANT TO FORCE DOCTORS TO PERFORM ABORTIONS. A pro-abortion coalition in New South Wales, Australia, has proposed a set of new guidelines urging lawmakers to remove or redefine conscientious objection protections for healthcare workers regarding abortion, contending that that the decision would broaden access to abortion. Read more here.
SEATTLE SCHOOLS ASK KIDS ABOUT SEXUAL ORIENTATION, DRUG USE WITHOUT TELLING PARENTS. More than 20 Seattle public middle and high schools surveyed kids about gender identity and sexual orientation without telling their parents — and allegedly shared the data with third parties. Read more here.
WOMEN INJURED BY ABORTION CLINICS ARE PILING UP IN UNREGULATED ILLINOIS; ONE INJURED WOMAN LEFT IN THE STREET BY PLANNED PARENTHOOD. Unregulated, unlicensed abortion clinics have continued to maim and injure women across the state of Illinois, with 21 reports of women being injured across eight abortion facilities this year. Read more here.
DETAILS SHROUDED IN SECRECY AS THIRD WOMAN IN A MONTH IS INJURED AT RHODE ISLAND PLANNED PARENTHOOD. Live Action witnesses reported a woman recently taken from the Providence, Rhode Island Planned Parenthood via ambulance, the third such incident in little more than a month at that location. Read more here.
ABA ACCREDITS CATHOLIC LAW SCHOOL AFTER PUSHBACK FOR ALLEGED RELIGIOUS DISCRIMINATION. St. Thomas University College of Law will maintain its accreditation after the American Bar Association threatened to remove it over the Florida college’s religious views. Read more here.
LEFTIST OUTCRY IN ITALY OVER SEX-ED BILL CRACKING DOWN ON GENDER IDEOLOGY. New legislation passed by Italy’s lower house of parliament pushing back against “gender ideology and the woke bubble” is generating a meltdown on the left. Read more here.
STUDY: 28 PERCENT OF ADULTS IN ‘ROMANTIC’ AI RELATIONSHIPS AMID LOW MARRIAGE AND BIRTH RATES. A recent survey by Vantage Point Counseling, a therapy firm based in Texas, reveals that more than a quarter of adults in America have engaged in intimate or romantic interactions with AI systems. Read more here.
HHS PUTS WA CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL IN THE CROSSHAIRS FOR ITS REFUSAL TO STOP TRANS-CARE TO MINORS, by Jennifer Oliver O’Connell. “It’s find out time for Seattle Children’s Hospital. Despite initially ceasing gender services in February after President Trump’s executive order banning chemical and surgical mutilation of minors, the hospital found loopholes to exploit: one of them is marrying their autism clinic to the gender clinic, counseling autistic youth that their sex is what’s wrong with them.” Read more here.
ABORTION PILL REVERSAL HAS SAVED OVER 7,000 BABIES FROM ABORTIONS, by Brooke Myrick BSN, RN. “With the irrefutable data being released from a recent study investigating the dangers of mifepristone, the truth of the harmful impact this drug continues to have on women is inescapable. After review of the study evaluating insurance claim data of women who had undergone a chemical abortion, it is now understood that mifepristone is 22 times more dangerous than previously shared by the abortion industry.” Read more here.
THROW THE BOOK AT THEM: AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION IS (STILL) GROOMING OUR KIDS, by Dan Kleinman. “Imagine if your 15-year-old came to my house, and I gave them a book about edgy sex positions? What if I gave your 16-year-old a book with graphic illustrations of [high-risk sexual behaviors]? Would you be happy with that? Or would you be mighty suspicious of me? Many parents may not know it, but there is an ongoing fight over certain books and whether they should be given to minors without their parents’ knowledge or consent. That’s what the American Library Association wants.” Read more here.
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