Family Watch Newswire

November 19, 2025

LEADING PRO-LIFE GROUP TO SPEND $80 MILLION IN 2026 MIDTERMS. On the cusp of a critical midterm election year, Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America and Women Speak Out PAC have announced they will spend $80 million in the 2026 midterms in an effort to retain pro-life majorities in Congress. Read more here.

PRO-LIFE PREGNANCY CENTERS PROVIDED OVER $450 MILLION IN SERVICES, MATERIAL GOODS LAST YEAR. The annual study from the Charlotte Lozier Institute included 2,775 pregnancy centers nationwide and was conducted in conjunction with Heartbeat International, National Institute of Family and Life Advocates, Focus on the Family, and Care Net. Read more here.

‘SHOUT YOUR ABORTION’ FOUNDER TARGETS KIDS WITH ‘ABORTION IS EVERYTHING’ BOOK. Amelia Bonow, an abortion activist well-known for creating the “Shout Your Abortion” social media movement, has published a children’s book about abortion, and it’s being marketed to children between the ages of five and eight. Read more here.

WOLFFORTH, TEXAS BECOMES 85TH CITY IN THE NATION TO BAN ABORTIONS. The City Council of Wolfforth, Texas (pop. 9,600) became the 85th city in the nation, and the 68th city in the State of Texas, to pass a Sanctuary City for the Unborn Ordinance. Read more here.

PRISON GUARDS IN PORTUGAL FORCE TRANSFER OF VIOLENT TRANSGENDER INMATE FROM WOMEN’S PRISON AFTER THREATENING TO STRIKE. Portugal’s national union for prison staff has threatened to strike after a violent transgender inmate, Miguel António, who while housed in a women’s facility, injured five correctional officers and waged a prolonged campaign of intimidation against female staff and inmates.” Read more here.

ALBERTA SHIELDS WOMEN, GIRLS AND PARENTS FROM GENDER ACTIVIST LAWSUITS WITH BILL 9. In a move to stop gender-ideology activists from overturning provincial laws in the courts, the Alberta government is invoking the notwithstanding clause to protect three major statutes aimed at safeguarding children, strengthening parental rights, and preserving fair competition for female athletes. Read more here.

SINGER TISH HYMAN PROTESTS PRISONS ALLOWING MEN TO BE JAILED WITH WOMEN. Singer-songwriter and rapper Tish Hyman appeared outside Shakopee Women’s Correctional Facility in Scott County, Minnesota to protest against the state’s policies of allowing men who identify as women to be jailed with women at state jails and prisons. Read more here.

FATHER DEFIED DOCTORS TO STOP SON’S ‘TRANSITION’ IN NEW DOCUMENTARY. Gareth Amaya Price shares his story of resisting pressure from the medical community to “transition” his son, in the new Independent Women’s Features documentary, “Identity Crisis: Defying the Transgender Lobby to Save His Son.” Read more here.

TOP MICHIGAN OFFICIAL SPARKS ONLINE FIRESTORM WHEN ASKED TO NAME NUMBER OF GENDERS. In the aftermath of the Michigan State Board of Education approving new state sex education standards with focuses on gender identity and sexual orientation, Michigan Chief Deputy Superintendent Dr. Sue Carnell was unable to state the number of genders. Read more here.

STUDENTS SAY COLLEGES DIDN’T PROVIDE SUPPORT WHEN THEY DECIDED THEY WEREN’T ‘TRANSGENDER’ ANYMORE. Soren Aldaco, who attended the University of Texas at Austin, sought campus resource support for “detransitioning,” but the campus gender and sexuality center said it had none and instead pushed resources related to re-transitioning. Read more here.

SWARTHMORE ASKS COURT TO TOSS LAWSUIT FILED BY TRANS ATHLETE KICKED OFF WOMEN’S TEAM. Swarthmore College has asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed against it by a transgender athlete kicked off the women’s track team, arguing the confusing and conflicting issue will soon be decided by the Supreme Court and administrators simply sought to follow federal guidelines. Read more here.

COLLEGE OF WOOSTER HOSTS ‘BLACK GIRL MAGIC’ DRAG SHOW. The event was hosted by the Black Women’s Organization and Queer+Trans People of Color group, which said the show would honor “the relationship between Black women and the LGBTQIA+ and both communities’ contributions to the culture” in an Instagram post. Read more here.

OREGON TO BACKFILL LOST MEDICAID FUNDS FOR PLANNED PARENTHOOD. Oregon Democrats have agreed to backfill $7.5 million in lost Planned Parenthood dollars, months after Congress approved a measure blocking access to federal Medicaid funds until at least July 2026. Read more here.

FLORIDA AG THREATENS CHILD PREDATORS WITH ‘DEATH PENALTY’ AFTER ANNOUNCING MAJOR RESCUE OPERATION. Calling it one of the largest child-recovery operations in U.S. history, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced that 122 children were rescued from child predators and abusers in a U.S. Marshals-led statewide operation billed “Operation Home for the Holidays.” Read more here.

GIRLS’ STEEP DECLINE IN DESIRE FOR MARRIAGE IS THE DESTABILIZING CONSEQUENCE OF FEMINIZATION, by Jordan Boyd. “Young girls used to dream of the day they would don a white dress, clutch a bouquet, and walk down the aisle to wed the love of their life. New data, however, suggests those dreams are scarcer than they were 30 years ago. A new Pew Research Center analysis of survey data from the University of Michigan found that high schoolers are more reluctant to desire marriage now than they were 30 years ago.” Read more here.

ALBERTA’S HEALTH MINISTER DENIED ‘EVIDENCE’ OF BORN-ALIVE ABORTIONS. THE DATA SAY OTHERWISE, by Richard Dur. “She said there was ‘no evidence.’ That was the line in a letter from Alberta’s health minister, Adriana LaGrange: ‘Please know that there is no evidence of live-birth abortions occurring in Alberta.’ She may even be right, in the narrowest, most technical sense. There is no medical category called a ‘live-birth abortion.’ On paper, what doesn’t exist cannot occur. Denial begins with definition: call it something else, and conscience can rest easy.” Read more here.

‘THIS IS VERY DISTURBING’: FEMALE INMATES IN MN PEN LETTERS DECRYING STATE’S TRANS PRISONER POLICY, by Amy Curtis. “Back in September, Townhall reported a story about the Minnesota prison system housing a violent transgender inmate in the women’s prison. That man, Nathan Trevon Jones, had a history of domestic violence, and he assaulted a female inmate. In 2024, Kelsey Bolar from the Independent Women’s Forum shared stories from women in our nation’s prison system who were punished for speaking out against men being housed in their cells.” Read more here.

THE ESSEX FILES: THE COST OF SPEAKING TRUTH IN WOMEN’S SPORTS, by Brad Essex. “When Alexa Anderson and Reese Eckard stepped off the podium at Oregon’s girls’ state track championship in May, they weren’t staging a tantrum. They were taking a stand. Third and fourth place in the high jump after years of grueling practice, the two Tigard High School seniors refused to share the moment with a transgender athlete who had cleared the bar for fifth. In that quiet act of dissent, they exposed the raw fault lines in the push to redefine fairness in women’s sports.” Read more here.

DEFENDING WOMEN’S SPACES: A LEFTIST CASE, by John Mancini. “With prominent Democrats like Gavin Newsom and Pete Buttigieg recently acknowledging the trouble behind allowing trans-identifying men to compete in women’s sports, the demand to defend women’s spaces has never been more pressing. The issue of fairness takes center stage here: trans-identifying men have incredible biological advantages over women in sports, such as bigger bones and greater muscle mass. This concern isn’t new—many have cited it over the years… But now, the issue is all the more pressing in light of recent comments.” Read more here.

SECRET SOCIAL TRANSITIONS ARE ALL TOO REAL, AND THEY’RE HURTING KIDS, by Bryan Chai. “Parents rightly expect schools to coordinate with them on things pertaining to their children. From school-sponsored field trips to whether their child can be given an Advil, parents know best when it comes to their children. But increasingly, parents are being kept in the dark on something far more serious. … Alliance Defending Freedom President, CEO, and Chief Counsel Kristen Waggoner warned that, by some estimates, nearly 6,000 public schools have been infected by policies to socially transition children—such as changing names and pronouns—without any parental involvement.” Read more here.

FINAL TRUMP ADMINISTRATION REPORT SHARPLY QUESTIONS BENEFITS OF MEDICAL GENDER CARE FOR KIDS: NEWLY IDENTIFIED AUTHORS CRITICIZE POOR SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE, by Benjamin Ryan. “The long-awaited publication of the names of the co-authors of the Trump Administration’s landmark springtime report on pediatric gender medicine has disclosed that the Department of Health and Human Services deployed a team of scholars who are all at least highly skeptical of providing minors with medical gender treatments. This team backed their skepticism with detailed scientific and bioethical arguments in the report, which the White House sought to lend academic credence to its dramatic reversal from the Biden Administration’s positions on gender identity issues.” Read more here.

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