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.
September 12, 2025
APPEALS COURT ALLOWS TRUMP ADMIN TO DEFUND PLANNED PARENTHOOD. A federal appeals court has cleared the way for the Trump administration to cut Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood, overturning a lower court’s ruling and delivering a significant victory for pro-life advocates seeking to restrict federal taxpayer support for the nation’s largest abortion company. Read more here.
NIH PLEDGES NOT TO RENEW 17 GRANTS FOR RESEARCH USING ABORTED HUMAN FETAL TISSUE. The National Institutes of Health said it will not renew more than a dozen grants for research involving human fetal tissue after Breitbart News reported on a government watchdog investigation about the taxpayer-funded experiments. Read more here.
WORLD HEATH ORGANIZATION CONTINUES ATTACK ON CONSCIENCE RIGHTS. The World Health Organization has released a second edition of its 2022 guideline on abortion, with what appears to be the sole purpose of including harsher language against conscientious objection to the practice of abortion by health care providers. Read more here.
TRUMP TO RESCIND BIDEN-ERA POLICY EXPANDING ABORTION ACCESS IN VA DEPT. HOSPITALS. Under the former Biden administration, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs underwent a policy change that expanded abortion access for active-duty and retired soldiers in VA-affiliated hospitals, but the Trump administration is moving to change that. Read more here.
TEACHER SAYS SHE WON’T BE INTIMIDATED AFTER EXPOSING SECRET ABORTIONS OF VIRGINIA HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS. The teacher who accused Fairfax County Public Schools employees of arranging secret abortions for students behind their parents’ backs is standing by her story and vowing to help expose the truth no matter the cost. Read more here.
EMERGENCY AT PORTLAND ABORTION FACILITY: WOMAN RUSHED TO HOSPITAL AFTER BOTCHED ABORTION. A troubling medical emergency unfolded at the Lilith Clinic in downtown Portland when a 22-year-old woman undergoing a dilation-and-evacuation abortion suffered a uterine perforation during the procedure—forcing clinic staff to call emergency medical services. Read more here.
UN EXPERT: VILIFICATION OF PARENTS PROTECTING CHILDREN FROM GENDER TRANSITION IS “DISTURBING.” The UN Expert on Violence Against Women and Girls, Reem Alsalem, has issued a moving appeal to governments to end the vilification of parents who protect their children from “gender transition” procedures. Read more here.
SUPREME COURT LETS GIRL USE BOYS’ RESTROOM. The Supreme Court allowed a female identifying as male to use a male restroom while her case is heard, preventing South Carolina from enforcing a law requiring public school students to use restrooms aligning with their biological sex. Read more here.
LGBT GROUP PRESSURES CITY INTO REMOVING BILLBOARD AGAINST GENDER MUTILATION OF CHILDREN. St. Catharines, Ontario forced the removal of billboards warning about the dangers of gender mutilation surgery in minors that were placed by a pro-family advocacy group after pressure from a local pride group. Read more here.
TRANS PROPAGANDA, MERCH ENCOURAGES VIOLENCE TO ‘PROTECT TRANS KIDS,’ KILL ‘FASCISTS.’ Apparel and stickers featuring the slogan “Protect Trans Kids,” are often paired with images of rifles, knives or other weapons, and critics interpret them as implicit threats or calls to violence. Read more here.
CALIFORNIA FEMALE STUDENTS DEMAND LOCKER ROOM PRIVACY IN WALKOUT. A protest at James L. Day Middle School, part of the Temecula Valley Unified School District, on the first day of school was sparked by a male student allowed to use the girls’ locker room during P.E. because he identifies as female. Read more here.
HONG KONG LAWMAKERS VETO BILL ON SAME-SEX PARTNERSHIPS. Hong Kong’s Legislative Council vetoed a bill that would have allowed limited legal rights for same-sex couples who had registered their marriage or relationship overseas, drawing criticism from homosexual rights groups. Read more here.
DETROIT NEIGHBORHOOD TO BAN LGBT FLAGS AFTER LEGAL BATTLE. Hamtramck, Michigan can legally prohibit the display of the LGBT flag, a federal judge ruled, allowing the city to ban any “religious, ethnic, racial, political, or sexual orientation group flags” from being flown on public property. Read more here.
RESEARCH ON UK LGBT PUPILS REMOVED FROM EDUCATION DEPARTMENT WEBSITE. Research into the experiences of LGBT pupils had been commissioned by the British Department of Education in 2015, but now that information has been removed from its website. Read more here.
PLANNED PARENTHOOD ABORTION BIZ SHUTS DOWN CENTER IN WISCONSIN. A Planned Parenthood facility in Delavan, Wisconsin, has permanently closed its doors, marking a significant event for pro-life advocacy in the state. Read more here.
VERMONT CHRISTIAN SCHOOL BACK IN THE GAME AFTER COURT TRIUMPH. In a victory for religious schools, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit ruled that Vermont must allow a Christian school to participate in the state’s athletic association. Read more here.
UN EXPERT: VILIFICATION OF PARENTS PROTECTING CHILDREN FROM ‘GENDER TRANSITION’ IS ‘DISTURBING.’ The UN Expert on Violence Against Women and Girls, Reem Alsalem, has issued a moving appeal to governments to end the vilification of parents who protect their children from “gender transition” procedures. Read more here.
MICHIGAN DEPT. OF ED PROPOSES OVERHAUL OF HEALTH AND SEX EDUCATION STANDARDS. The Michigan Department of Education is accepting public comment on a significant overhaul of the state’s health standards, which include the state’s standards for sex education, including topics on sexual health, substance abuse, mental and emotional health, personal health and community health. Read more here.
AMERICA’S FERTILITY RATE HITS LOWEST LEVEL IN 90 YEARS. The U.S. fertility rate has plummeted to its lowest level in nearly a century, sparking concern among pro-life advocates about the cultural and societal factors contributing to the decline, including the impact of abortion. Read more here.
ALBERTA RELEASES NEW MANDATE TO KEEP SEXUALLY EXPLICIT BOOKS OUT OF SCHOOL LIBRARIES. Alberta Minister of Education and Childcare Demetrios Nicolaides announced the province’s updated standards that ban sexually explicit books in school libraries. Read more here.
US TO UN WOMEN: STOP PUSHING GENDER IDEOLOGY, By Stefano Gennarini, J.D. and Iulia-Elena Cazan. “U.S. diplomats lambasted the UN women’s agency for promoting gender ideology and abortion, calling out the agency’s efforts to ‘eradicate the biological reality of sex.’ Under instructions from the Trump administration, U.S. diplomats refused to endorse UN Women’s new three-year strategic plan and called out the agency for refusing to ‘protect biological reality.’” Read more here.
MANY LIBERALS DON’T ACTUALLY BELIEVE IN TRANSGENDER IDEOLOGY. YOU SHOULDN’T EITHER, by Jonathon Van Maren. “Over the next few years, we are going to see an increasing number of major establishment figures come out and retract their support for transgender ideology. As the evidence against so-called ‘gender-affirming care’ mounts and the trickle of detransitioner horror stories turns into a torrent, it is becoming difficult to deny that the decade-long attempt to transition society away from the sex binary is not only untenable, but dangerous and destructive.” Read more here.
EVIDENCE OVER IDEOLOGY, by Bernard Lane. “In the field of gender medicine, marked by open questions and misinformation, doctors must be conscious of their responsibility to tailor treatment to the scientific evidence, not to ideology, according to the president of the German Medical Association. Dr Klaus Reinhardt, whose association plays a role in the country’s health and social policy debates, was giving the opening address earlier today at the Berlin conference on youth gender distress hosted by the Society for Evidence-based Gender Medicine (SEGM).” Read more here.
THE INSIDE STORY OF EUROPE’S FIRST OFFICIAL GENDER-CRITICAL REFUGEE, by Jonathon Van Maren. “On a Friday night at 11 p.m. in June 2022, 29-year-old Isabella Cêpa got a DM on Instagram from a journalist with Folha de S. Paulo, one of Brazil’s top newspapers. The journalist asked Cêpa for a response to the news that she was charged with five counts of ‘racism’ for ‘misgendering’ a transvestite politician and could face up to 10 to 25 years in prison.” Read more here.
ABORTION AND ‘GENDER TRANSITIONS’: THE DEADLY CONSEQUENCES OF GREED AND IDEOLOGY IN HEALTHCARE, by J.B. Shurk. “Earlier this year, medical researchers from the University of Texas published the results of a bombshell study documenting the mental health impact of so-called ‘gender-affirming’ surgery. The study included nearly 110,000 male and female patients who were 18 or older and diagnosed with gender dysphoria. Among those patients observed, some underwent surgery, and some did not. The results were clear: two years after surgery, those who ‘transitioned’ had ‘significantly higher’ rates of depression, anxiety, substance abuse, and suicidal ideation.” Read more here.
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