Family Watch Newswire

February 19, 2025

SCOTLAND POLICE STOP PRO-LIFE WOMAN FROM SILENTLY PRAYING OUTSIDE ABORTION CLINIC. Scottish police applied a “buffer zone” law, which bans pro-life people from praying or speaking outside an abortion business, to pro-life grandmother Rose Docherty outside an abortion clinic. Read more here.

UK WOMAN FACES TRIAL FOR HOLDING SIGN OUTSIDE ABORTION CLINIC SAYING, ‘HERE TO TALK IF YOU WANT.’ Livia Tossici-Bolt, a retired medical scientist from Bournemouth, will face trial March 6, following charges relating to her charitable work supporting women in crisis pregnancies and standing near an abortion clinic offering that she was “here to talk, if you want to.” Read more here.

U.S HHS ISSUES SCIENTIFIC STATEMENT CONFIRMING HUMAN LIFE BEGINS AT CONCEPTION. The Department of Health and Human Services issued its updated definition of sex for all federal agencies and the public. The guidance was issued to make it clear there are only two biological sexes, but the confirmation also makes it clear that that establishment of the sex of a human being – this the life of a human being – begins at conception. Read more here.

COLORADO SENATE COMMITTEE ADVANCES BILL PROTECTING ABORTIONISTS. The Colorado Senate Judiciary Committee advanced a bill that would protect abortionists who mail the abortion pill out of state by allowing them to leave their names off of pill bottles. Read more here.

ABORTIONISTS SUE TO STOP MANDATORY REPORTING TO HEALTH DEPARTMENT. Indiana Abortionists Caitlin Bernard and Caroline Rouse filed a lawsuit against Voices for Life and the state health commissioner requesting that the Marion County Superior Court enter a temporary restraining order to block the release of Termination of Pregnancy Reports. Read more here.

ABORTION PIPELINE PROJECT WILL AGAIN GRANT WRITERS MONEY TO CREATE PRO-ABORTION FILMS. The annual Abortion Pipeline Project is back as part of the Athena Film Festival’s Creative Development Program, offering five pro-abortion writers grant money to create abortion-friendly films. Read more here.

MEXICAN GOVERNMENT IGNORES INQUIRY FROM INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS BODY INTO POLITICIAN CENSORED AND CONVICTED FOR TWITTER/X POSTS ON GENDER. Gabriel Quadri, a former congressman and presidential candidate from Mexico, was convicted in 2022 as a “political violator against women” for posts on Twitter/X expressing concerns about gender ideology, and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has remained silent on his legal battle. Read more here.

AUSTRALIA CENSUS TO INCLUDE NEW QUESTIONS ON GENDER AND SEXUAL ORIENTATION. Australians will, for the first time, be asked their “sex recorded at birth” in next year’s census, alongside new questions for those 16 and older about their sexual orientation and gender. Read more here.

‘JUST THE BEGINNING’: CALIFORNIANS FIGHT BACK AGAINST LEFTIST GENDER IDEOLOGY. New legislation in the liberally dominated California state Assembly calls for the protection of girls’ and women’s sports and parental rights allowing parents to opt their children out of instruction about transgender concepts in school and amending law that excludes parental refusal to medically or socially “transition” their children. Read more here.

SCOTTISH NEWSPAPER REPORTED TO POLICE AFTER REFERRING TO TRANS-IDENTIFIED MALE DOCTOR BY ‘HE/HIM’ PRONOUNS. The Scottish Daily Express was reported to police for the pronouns it used in covering the progression of a tribunal being held against Sandie Peggie, a nurse who had been employed at the Victoria hospital in Kirkcaldy, Scotland. Read more here.

KANSAS LEGISLATURE OVERRIDES VETO, ENACTS PROTECTIONS FOR CHILDREN. The Kansas Legislature has overturned Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto of SB 63, a law that protects children from the administration of life-altering “gender transition” surgeries, puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones while affirming the biological reality of sex as male and female. Read more here.

EMBRY-RIDDLE BANS DISCUSSIONS OF HOW MANY GENDERS THERE ARE IN OUTDOOR SPACES. Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, in Prescott, Arizona, has banned “discussions about the number of genders” in outdoor spaces. Read more here.

TRUMP ADMINISTRATION TO INVESTIGATE VIRGINIA SCHOOL DISTRICTS OVER TRANSGENDER POLICIES. President Donald Trump’s Department of Education has launched an investigation into five school districts in northern Virginia to determine whether their transgender policies violate recent executive orders. Read more here.

MAJOR LGBT ACTIVIST GROUPS ANNOUNCE MASS LAYOFFS, CITING REVENUE LOSS AND CONSERVATIVE BACKLASH. The “Human Rights Campaign” and “GLSEN” (formerly the “Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network”) announced they will lay off 20 percent and 60 percent of their staff, respectively. Read more here.

HOLLYWOOD’S JESUS IS BALD, BLACK, QUEER WOMAN. Cynthia Erivo, an outspoken member of the LGBT community, has been cast to play a controversial Jesus Christ at the Hollywood Bowl’s production of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Jesus Christ, Superstar. Read more here.

OHIO JUDGE BLOCKS LAW STOPPING PLANNED PARENTHOOD FROM DUMPING ABORTED BABIES IN LANDFILLS. An Ohio judge has blocked a commonsense law, The Unborn Child Dignity Act, that stopped Planned Parenthood from dumping the bodies of aborted babies in landfills. Read more here.

TRUMP URGED TO ‘SEIZE THE MOMENT’ AND DEFUND PLANNED PARENTHOOD. Shawn Carney, the head of 40 Days for Life, says he’s optimistic that a Congressional pro-life majority working in tandem with the new Trump administration will defund Planned Parenthood, noting that pro-life Americans are being forced to support the abortion giant with their tax dollars. Read more here.

NEW REPORT RANKS STATES ON FAMILY STRENGTH, HIGHLIGHTING ITS ROLE IN REDUCING SOCIETAL ISSUES. The Family Structure Index and the Hope and a Future Report — published by the Center for Christian Virtue, a public policy group based in Ohio — ranked Utah, Idaho and Nebraska in the top three, for percentage of adults who are married, have children and raise them together through their children’s high school years. Read more here.

STERILIZATION IN A CULTURE OF FEAR: THE DEEPENING CRISIS OF ANTI-FAMILY IDEALS, by Herbie Newell. “Earlier this year, a Michigan state representative admitted to having surgery in order to prevent herself from conceiving children. Fearing the fate of her ‘reproductive freedom’ under the Trump Administration, she chose to have the sterilization surgery. She claims to worry about things such as insurance coverage and access to contraceptives, but the main issue is that she is part of a culture that doesn’t want children and idolizes self. Why would our culture take such drastic measures to avoid having children?” Read more here.

TRANS IDEOLOGY IS IN RETREAT, BUT WE MUST FIGHT UNTIL IT’S DESTROYED, by Nathanael Blake. “The New York Times is very upset that President Trump is not respecting transgender identities. The editorial board disapproves of his executive orders rolling back gender ideology, and a piece by Amy Harmon accused him of ‘undermining the very idea that transgender identities are legitimate and should be recognized. Good. ‘Gender identities’ that are disconnected from our embodiment as male and female are nonsense.” Read more here.

CURING TRANS DELUSION: ‘GYNECOLOGISTS ARE TRAINED TO TREAT WOMEN’S GENITALS,’ by Jonathon Van Maren. “A French gynecologist has been suspended from practicing medicine for one month and penalized with an additional five months of probation by the French Medical Council for declining to treat a 26-year-old man who identifies as a woman. In August 2023, a trans-identifying man and his partner showed up at Dr. Victor Acharian’s office in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques in the Pau region of southwestern France. Acharian, naturally, treats only women, and after several moments, his secretary told the man that Acharian wouldn’t see him.” Read more here.

NEW FRENCH SEX ED PLAN OPENS GATE TO GENDER IDEOLOGY, by Hélène de Lauzun. “The arrival of the Bayrou government in office coincided with the accelerated implementation of a new, openly militant sex education programme in French schools, completely excluding parents from the process. Despite the mobilisation of parents’ associations, there is no indication that the Ministry of Education intends to back down. All the indicators are red; the skill level of young French children is plummeting year after year; the basics—reading, writing, arithmetic—are not mastered by the time they start secondary school; but the stated priority of the Ministry of Education is ‘relational, sexual and emotional’ education.” Read more here.

TRUMP’S TRANSGENDER ORDERS ARE WELL WITHIN EXECUTIVE AUTHORITY, by Sarah Parshall Perry and Paul J. Larkin. “In two short weeks, President Donald Trump has issued scores of executive orders, many of them related to gender identity. Outraged critics claim that he lacks the authority to do so. Do they have a case? Consider first the orders themselves. In addition to recognition of a formal two-sex policy for the whole of government, Trump issued executive orders barring trans-identified individuals from service in the military, requiring the removal of preferred pronouns in all government communiques, and directing all federally funded educational institutions to maintain athletic programs separated by biological sex, rather than gender identity.” Read more here.

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