Family Watch Newswire

November 5, 2025

RESEARCHERS TRACKED 1.2 MILLION WOMEN AND FOUND ABORTION CAUSES MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS. A peer-reviewed, long-term study from the Journal of Psychiatric Research regarding women who had an abortion found they were more likely to be hospitalized for mental health conditions such as depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder and substance use disorders, compared to women who gave birth. Read more here.

BABIES SURVIVE ABORTION ATTEMPTS EVERY MONTH IN NEW ZEALAND. Family First New Zealand reported that government data reveal preborn children are surviving attempted abortions on a regular basis, but they received no life-saving care because that is only given to wanted babies. Read more here.

COURT RULES OREGON CAN’T FORCE PRO-LIFE GROUP TO FUND ABORTIONS. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a 2-1 decision in Oregon Right to Life v. Stolfi, reversing a lower court’s dismissal of the group’s lawsuit against the state’s 2017 Reproductive Health Equity Act mandating abortion and abortifacient birth control coverage in nearly all health insurance plans. Read more here.

PENNSYLVANIA VOTES TO KEEP HIGH COURT MAJORITY THAT HAS UPHELD ABORTION ACCESS. Pennsylvania voters elected to retain three Democratic justices on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court following a campaign with outside groups casting the vote as a referendum on abortion access. Read more here.

GLOBAL ABORTION COMPANY IS SPENDING $2 BILLION TO PROMOTE ABORTION PILLS WORLDWIDE. DKT International has become the world’s largest distributor of abortion pills, using sophisticated social marketing networks specifically designed to evade pharmaceutical regulations. Read more here.

NHS ENGLAND OPENS CALL FOR EVIDENCE ON ‘DETRANSITION’ PATHWAY. NHS England announced a new phase in its work on “detransition” care: a national consultation seeking input on current practice, service organization and delivery, and research gaps to be addressed between now and December 2025. Read more here.

‘TRANSGENDER’ DEMOCRAT CONVICTED OF SEX CRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN. A “transgender” Democrat lawmaker from New Hampshire pleaded guilty to federal charges of sexual exploitation of children in a Boston court. Barry Laughton, who now goes by “Stacie,” was hailed as the first “transgender” politician elected to public office in the United States in 2012. Read more here.

DETRANSITIONER LAWSUIT AGAINST DR. JOHANNA OLSON-KENNEDY IS DISMISSED. A California judge has dismissed the lawsuit filed by a former patient of leading pediatric gender medicine specialist Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy and her collegues because attorneys could not get around the state’s strict three-year statute of limitations for such medical-malpractice lawsuits. Read more here.

L.A. GYM REVOKES WOMAN’S MEMBERSHIP AFTER HER PRIVACY VIOLATED BY MAN IN WOMEN’S LOCKER ROOM. Tish Hyman posted on X about the experience of having a man follow her into the women’s room and call her names, only to have her gym membership canceled for complaining. Read more here.

NATIVE AMERICAN TRANS PEDOPHILE WHO ABUSED HIS OWN SON GETTING TAXPAYER-FUNDED LASER HAIR REMOVAL, VOICE THERAPY IN NC PRISON. The inmate, known as Brian Buckingham, 47, was sentenced to over 21 years in prison for sexually abusing his 10-year-old son and producing child pornography. Read more here.

FROM AFFIRMATION TO ISOLATION: FORMER TRANS STUDENTS CALL FOR CHANGES TO CAMPUS CULTURE. “Detransitioners” say it’s time for higher education to recognize transgenderism as a harmful ‘’fad.’’ Read more here.

RISKY CHEMSEX KILLING HOMOSEXUALS IN LONDON. Deaths from chemsex – sex parties fueled by the consumption of drugs such as methamphetamine and GHB – pose a significant and growing risk in London, where three men die each month and 764 men were medically treated between 2021 and 2023. Read more here.

PRO-LIFE MOVEMENT SETS SIGHTS ON PREVENTING PLANNED PARENTHOOD FROM REGAINING FUNDING. Next July 4, Planned Parenthood will regain full taxpayer funding in the U.S., but a pro-life coalition led by Live Action has set its sights on working with Congress to prevent that from happening. Read more here.

JUDGE BLOCKS TRUMP DIRECTIVE TO CUT ‘GENDER IDEOLOGY’ FROM SEX ED: DOJ. A federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction to block White House attempts to defund certain state sexual education programs that included affirming gender ideology. Read more here.

PARENTAL RIGHTS WIN AMONG KEY BALLOT MEASURES ACROSS U.S. Texas’ Proposition 15, which adds parental rights to the state constitution, passed in Tuesday’s election, making the Lone Star State the first to add such a measure to its constitution. Read more here.

STRONG FAMILIES MAKE A STRONG DEMOCRACY, by Jeffrey Nielsen. “Many American couples clock more than forty hours a week and still barely scrape by. Rents continue to climb, child care costs nearly as much as housing, and one unexpected car repair or medical bill can send families into financial ruin. Even when couples love one another deeply, it can still feel like they are drowning separately, not surviving together.” Read more here.

MD SCHOOL DISTRICT THAT LOST QUEER SEX ED CASE AT SCOTUS KEEPS PUSHING TRANS IDEOLOGY ON KIDS, by Breccan F. Thies. “The same Maryland school district the Supreme Court rebuked for exposing children to sexually explicit material is still forcing children as young as 12 to decipher numerous gender ideology terms in a vocabulary lesson, without parental knowledge, permission, or the ability to opt out.” Read more here.

CONFIRMING THOMAS BELL COULD BRING JUSTICE TO THE ABORTED BABIES HARVESTED FOR PARTS, by Ryan Navarro. “A recent nomination hearing was held in the U.S. Senate in which lawmakers considered Thomas March Bell, a former fetal tissue investigator, for the inspector general role at the Department of Health and Human Services. The Senate Committee on Finance will now determine whether his nomination is advanced to the full Senate. If confirmed, Bell will have the opportunity to revive a 2021 federal investigation into the University of Pittsburgh’s potentially illicit use of fetal tissue obtained from aborted babies.” Read more here.

JD VANCE COMPARES ABORTION TO CHILD SACRIFICE: ‘WE SHOULD BE TRYING TO PROTECT EVERY UNBORN LIFE,’ by Jonathon Van Maren. “For an hour on Wednesday, Vice President J.D. Vance took questions from students at the University of Mississippi at a Turning Point USA event, taking the place of his murdered friend Charlie Kirk. He answered questions about Christianity, his personal faith, and abortion—and referred to abortion as ‘child sacrifice’ that leads to the mistreatment of women.” Read more here.

LOUDOUN COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD CANDIDATE UNSEATS TRANS-CRAZED INCUMBENT, by Breccan F. Thies. “Republican candidates lost across Virginia on Tuesday night, including losing to a Democrat who fantasized about murdering Republicans and their children. But one silver lining popped up in a most unexpected place: Infamous Loudoun County elected a school board member opposed to transgender ideology.” Read more here.

GENDER IDENTITY IN CANADIAN LAW—DEFINITION, ORIGINS, AND SOCIETAL IMPACT, by Mia Hughes. “In 2002, the Northwest Territories became the first jurisdiction in Canada to add gender identity to its Human Rights Act as a prohibited ground of discrimination. In the 15 years that followed, every Canadian province and territory followed suit, culminating in the federal Bill C-16, which added gender identity and gender expression to the Canadian Human Rights Act and Criminal Code in 2017. …the new laws came with repercussions that were scarcely considered by the lawmakers who championed them, despite at least some being entirely predictable.” Read more here.

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