Family Watch Newswire

November 12, 2025

SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION GIVING ULTRASOUND EQUIPMENT TO PRO-LIFE PREGNANCY CARE CENTERS IN PRO-CHOICE STATES. Known as “Across State Lines,” the endeavor was officially launched with a greater emphasis on providing the equipment in states where abortion is legal in most or virtually all circumstances. Read more here.

DICKENS COUNTY, TEXAS BECOMES 13TH COUNTY IN THE NATION TO OUTLAW ABORTION. By a 4-1 vote, the Commissioners Court of Dickens County, Texas (pop. 1,725) passed an ordinance “Outlawing Abortion Within the Unincorporated Area of Dickens County, Declaring Dickens County a Sanctuary County for the Unborn.” Read more here.

DOCTOR SUSPENDED AFTER FORCING HIS GIRLFRIEND TO TAKE ABORTION PILLS. The Ohio State Medical Board suspended University of Toledo Medical Center surgery resident Dr. Hassan-James Abbas from practicing medicine in Ohio after admitting to secretly obtaining and administering abortion drugs to a pregnant woman. Read more here.

ALL SAINTS SINGER MELANIE BLATT SAYS BAND MEMBERS WERE PRESSURED TO HAVE ABORTIONS. All Saints singer Melanie Blatt has revealed she and bandmate Nicole Appleton experienced pressure to have abortions when the group was at the height of its fame in the 1990s. Read more here.

PARENTS FILE TITLE IX COMPLAINT ACCUSING PRINCETON OF ‘GENDER DISCRIMINATION’ THROUGH GENDER-NEUTRAL BATHROOMS. The filing cites “numerous violations” of Title IX and related executive orders, including Princeton’s policy of providing 250 gender-inclusive restrooms, all-gender housing and access to hormone replacement therapy through student health services. Read more here.

TSA OFFICER SUES AGENCY OVER TRANSGENDER PAT-DOWN POLICY RESTRICTIONS. A transgender Transportation Security Administration officer in Virginia is suing the Department of Homeland Security, accusing it of sex discrimination over a new policy that bars transgender agents from conducting security screening pat-downs. Read more here.

CHURCH DEFENDS PASTOR WHO BLESSED ‘MARRIAGE’ OF FOUR MEN. One of the largest branches of the German Protestant church has defended a pastor after she blessed a “polycule,” a relationship between four men and called the ceremony a “marriage in the eyes of God.” Read more here.

TWO POPULAR SAME-SEX DATING PLATFORMS REMOVED FROM APPLE APP STORE IN CHINA. Apple has confirmed that it has removed two of China’s most popular same-sex dating apps – Blued and Finka – from its app store in the country following an order from authorities. Apple stated that the company follows the law of the countries where they operate. Read more here.

PRO-LIFE LEADER CRITICIZES NORTHWESTERN PLAN FOR ‘REPRODUCTIVE VENDING MACHINE.’ A pro-life group has questioned Northwestern University’s plans to put a “reproductive vending machine” in the Norris Center on campus that will dispense urine test strips, Plan B, condoms, tampons and lube. Read more here.

JUDGE HEARS ARGUMENTS ON LAW CUTTING PLANNED PARENTHOOD MEDICAID FUNDS. A federal judge has heard arguments about whether a spending law passed in July that ended Medicaid reimbursements for Planned Parenthood can remain in effect while legal challenges continue. Read more here.

DATA SHOW SOCIAL MEDIA SITES ARE THE PRIMARY WAY CHILDREN ARE EXPOSED TO PORN. Evidence continues to emerge that children are being subjected to pornography at increasingly younger ages, due mostly to accidental exposure on social media sites that do not enforce restrictions on user-posted pornography. Read more here.

COLLEGES THAT PROMOTE VIRTUE PRODUCE HEALTHIER, HAPPIER GRADUATES, SURVEY FINDS. U.S. colleges that excel in promoting virtue, tolerance and religious freedom produce graduates with greater personal well-being than their peers, a new Heritage Foundation survey found. Read more here.

HERE’S WHAT THE MEDIA AREN’T TELLING YOU ABOUT THAT ‘GAY MARRIAGE’ CASE SCOTUS JUST REJECTED, by Shawn Fleetwood. “By now, you’ve probably seen the giddy headlines from America’s propaganda media about the U.S. Supreme Court declining to take up a case that sought to overturn so-called ‘gay marriage.’ …The average person reading legacy media headlines about the Supreme Court’s denial of Davis’ request is likely to come away with the conclusion that the former clerk’s case represented a serious threat to the precedent established in Obergefell. But that is simply not accurate.” Read more here.

NO, PREGNANCY IS NOT BAD FOR WOMEN, by Rosemary L. Hopcroft. “When I was growing up, my late father—a doctor—used to disparage the pathologizing of pregnancy, insisting, ‘pregnancy is not a disease.’ …Even so, some popular influencers today seek to pathologize pregnancy and try to convince young women that pregnancy is bad for them. For example, there is Abigail Porter of the Substack, ‘The List,’ who has half a million followers and details all the reasons not to get pregnant, including a host of physical problems.” Read more here.

WHY THE SUPREME COURT MAY NEVER REVIEW GAY MARRIAGE, by Fred Lucas. “The Supreme Court declined Monday to hear a former Kentucky county clerk’s case that could have potentially challenged the 2015 decision Obergefell v. Hodges, which nationalized same-sex marriage. ‘This was completely predictable,’ Thomas Jipping, a senior legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation, told The Daily Signal. ‘It was not the right case to raise the issue of the constitutionality of gay marriage.’” Read more here.

IT’S NOT IF, BUT WHEN, OBERGEFELL WILL BE OVERTURNED, by Mat Staver. “On Monday morning, the Supreme Court declined to hear Davis v. Ermold, marking the end of a decade-long legal battle for Kim Davis, the first victim jailed, sued, and held personally liable post-Obergefell v. Hodges for her religious beliefs on marriage. This denial is heartbreaking for Kim Davis and is a miscarriage of justice. Refusing to take up this case is a stark departure from the Constitution the Court purports to protect.” Read more here.

UNHOLY ALLIANCES: THE ABUSE AND LIES THAT LED TO RAMPANT CHILD MUTILATION, by Sheena Rodriguez. “Though they sometimes seem like strange bedfellows, transgender and pro-abortion ideologies have been intertwined for over a century, since European activists in the 1800s aimed to separate procreation from ‘sexual expression,’ inventing the notions that a person could be ‘born in the wrong body’ and that all things are permissible — even for children — so long as there is ‘consent.’ These ideas have now made their way into today’s K-12 education through the influence of groups like Planned Parenthood, SIECUS (Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States), Advocates for Youth (AFY), and the FoSE (Future of Sex Education) coalition.” Read more here.

WASHINGTON POST: BEST PLACE TO RAISE YOUR FAMILY IS WHERE YOU CAN KILL KIDS IN ABORTIONS, by Dave Andrusko. “Where else but such stalwarts of the Legacy Media as the Washington Post would you find abortion as a pillar of an article headlined ‘What’s the best place to raise a family’? …What is conductive to parents having children, according to Youyou Zhou? ‘In our search for the best place for raising children, we gathered data for every county in the United States across four metrics: affordability, quality of education, neighborhood safety, and state policies on abortion access, parental leave and LGBTQ rights. All these factors are important for the well-being of parents and children.’” Read more here.

JUDGE WHO APPROVED PUBERTY BLOCKERS FOR MINORS CALLS FOR URGENT GOVERNMENT RETHINK, by The Australian. “Australia has reached what should be a significant turning point in our medical approach to vulnerable, gender-distressed children and teenagers. In Monday’s paper, the former judge who led the Family Court in 2013 when it green-lit liberalised access of puberty blockers to minors revealed she now has doubts about the landmark ruling. Former Family Court chief justice Diana Bryant now says it may be better for parliaments to step in and regulate the field of pediatric gender medicine rather than rely on whatever disputes come before judges.” Read more here.

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