Family Watch Newswire

March 16, 2026

PRO-LIFE STATES SAW INCREASE IN BIRTHS AFTER OVERTURN OF ROE. According to a new study from Economic Inquiry, states that established a total abortion ban since the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade have seen a noticeable spike in birthrates. Read more here.

10,000 AUSTRIAN UNIVERSITY STUDENTS SIGN PETITION TO STOP FORCING THEM TO FUND ABORTIONS. The Austrian National Union of Students administers a “Repro Fund” paying for abortion by using university student funds, and 10,000 university students in Austria have signed a petition to protest the program requiring students to fund the abortions of other students. Read more here.

MOTHER OF STRICTLY STAR WITH DOWN’S SYNDROME WAS URGED BY NURSE TO ABANDON HER AT HOSPITAL. Yvonne Goldstein, the mother of model and actress Ellie Goldstein, 24, explained that, after she was told that Ellie had Down’s syndrome, a nurse said “The last mother who had one of these left it here. Do you want to do that?’” Read more here.

POLL SHOWS 76 PERCENT OF AMERICANS WANT ABORTIONS BANNED OR LIMITED. Pew Research released the results of a new poll on public attitudes on sanctity of life issues showing the number of Americans who think there should be some legal limits on abortion has risen to 76 percent. Read more here.

23 COUNTIES AND 15 CITIES IN ARKANSAS HAVE DECLARED THEMSELVES PRO-LIFE. Arkansas is America’s most pro-life state, and 23 counties and 15 municipalities have passed resolutions declaring support for the pro-life position. Read more here.

U. OREGON WILL HAND OUT FREE ABORTION DRUGS THIS FALL. The University of Oregon announced it will hand out the abortion drugs this upcoming fall, allowing young women to walk into their campus health clinic and get drugs to abort their preborn babies. Read more here.

FORMER COLLEGE VOLLEYBALL PLAYER SAYS TEAMMATES ‘SUSTAINED MINOR INJURIES’ FROM TRANS OPPONENT. Kaylie Ray, a former member of the women’s volleyball team at Utah State University, spoke to Fox News about teammates who suffered injuries when playing against Blaire Fleming, a male who was allowed to play for the San Jose State University women’s volleyball team. Read more here.

NEW POLL: 68 PERCENT OF U.S. VOTERS ENDORSE LIMITS ON TRANS MALE ATHLETES. The Voters’ Voice Poll found that 68 percent of U.S. registered voters support allowing the Supreme Court to uphold state bans on transgender men competing in women’s sports. Read more here.

JUDGE BLASTS COLLEAGUES FOR ALLOWING NAKED MEN IN WOMEN-ONLY SPA. Ninth Circuit Judge Lawrence VanDyke issued a sharply worded dissent this week, accusing fellow judges of forcing a Christian-owned women’s nude spa in Washington state to admit men exposing their genitalia, accusing his colleagues of sacrificing constitutional protections and women’s privacy in the case. Read more here.

UK COURT SENTENCES TRANS-IDENTIFIED MALE TO NINE YEARS FOR RAPE OF YOUNG GIRLS. Serenity Francis Johnston, a biological man who identifies as a woman, abused three children in Livingston in West Lothian and was sentenced to serve nine years in prison. Read more here.

MAMDANI APPOINTS TRANS-IDENTIFIED MALE TO LEAD NEWLY CREATED LGBTQIA+ AFFAIRS OFFICE. New York City’s socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani has appointed Taylor Brown, a transgender-identifying male, to lead his new LGTBQ office. Read more here.

PRIEST FACES PROBE UNDER ICELAND’S ‘CONVERSION THERAPY’ BAN. Reykjavik police are evaluating statements made by Catholic priest Fr. Jakob Rolland in an interview with the Icelandic broadcaster RÚV that have been interpreted by critics as an intention to violate the country’s law prohibiting so-called “conversion therapy.” Read more here.

DEM MAYOR WHO LED GETTYSBURG PRIDE ARRESTED FOR SEX CRIMES WITH MINOR. Democrat and former mayor of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Chad-Alan Carr, 48, stepped down after serving just over two months in office, for allegedly grooming a teenage boy with sexually explicit videos. Read more here.

PLANNED PARENTHOOD OFFICIAL FALSELY CLAIMS ABORTION PILL IS SAFER THAN TYLENOL. Sarah Taylor-Nanista, executive director of Planned Parenthood Votes Colorado, defended the controversial abortion drug mifepristone by repeating a false claim that it is safer than many over-the-counter medications — including Tylenol. Read more here.

LIBERTY UNIVERSITY ARGUES FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN VIRGINIA EMPLOYMENT CASE. Liberty Counsel Founder and Chairman Mat Staver presented an oral argument Monday at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in Zinski v. Liberty University, claiming that the university, as a Christian employer, has an absolute right to employ only people who abide by its doctrinal statement. Read more here.

REPORT: ONLINE FORUMS APPEAR TO ALLOW KIDS ACCESS TO CROSS-SEX HORMONES WITHOUT PRESCRIPTION, by Breccan F. Thies. “American children may be able to purchase cross-sex hormones for ‘gender transition’ online from foreign and domestic pharmacies without prescriptions, according to a new report from medical watchdog Do No Harm. Online pharmacies have a remarkable lack of safeguards, according to the report, including not requiring age verification or a prescription before payment.” Read more here.

UK EXPANDS PORNOGRAPHY BILL TO INCLUDE BAN ON VIOLENCE, CHILD SEX ABUSE, by Jonathon Van Maren. “Last November, I noted that a proposed ban in the United Kingdom on ‘strangulation’ pornography might mark a watershed moment in the debate on what do about the pernicious effects of porn on our youth and culture writ large. Few remarked on it, but the Labour government’s Crime and Policing Bill included a ban on what is colloquially referred to as ‘choking porn,’ requiring technology platforms to block this content and banning both possession and publication.” Read more here.

DETRANSITION IN THE SPOTLIGHT, by Bernard Lane. “A non-profit medical clinic for US detransitioners is in planning, a historic meeting of 70-plus detransitioners hosted by Genspect in Washington DC has heard. Katy Hurd, a Seattle-based family physician with her own history of gender dysphoria, told the March 12 Life Beyond Transition conference that the needs of detransitioners—including their complications from hormonal treatment and transgender surgery—represented an ‘abominable’ gap in healthcare.” Read more here.

YOUNG MEN AREN’T CHECKED OUT. THEIR HOPES ARE BEING FRUSTRATED, by Joseph E. Davis, Michael Toscano and Ken Burchfiel. “Fewer young men go to college, for instance, and fewer of them come away with a degree. Just 41% of degrees are now awarded to men. Young men have higher rates of conditions such as ADHD and autism and have more problems with drugs, gambling, pornography, and the law. Many young men today have lower earnings and career prospects compared to earlier cohorts.” Read more here.

COLORADO’S TITLE IX BETRAYAL: ED FINDS 61 MALE THIEVES MIGHT BE STEALING SPOTS ON GIRL’S SPORTS TEAMS, by Ward Clark. “Colorado used to be a pretty good place. When I moved there in 1989, it was still mostly South Wyoming. Oh, there was downtown Denver, where the urban Dems clustered, and there was the People’s Republic of Boulder, where they kept all the hippies. But most of Colorado was still pretty sensible. Now, though? It’s East California, and nothing makes that case more clearly than the Jefferson County, Colorado board of education defying Title IX by allowing boys in girls’ locker rooms, overnight accommodations, and on their sports teams.” Read more here.

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