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.
January 28, 2026
HHS RESCINDS UNCLEAR GUIDANCE FROM BIDEN ADMIN ON PHARMACY ABORTION DRUGS. In its review of the guidance that was implemented under the Biden administration, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has rescinded unclear guidance on whether pharmacists are required to keep harmful abortion drugs in stock. Read more here.
U. OREGON SOCIALISTS DEMAND ABORTION DRUGS ON CAMPUS. Ahead of its “Medication Abortion Action Fair,” the Young Democratic Socialists of America and other campus clubs at the University of Oregon are circulating a survey to students, asking them if they have ever gone to Planned Parenthood and if they would be interested in accessing drugs to abort their preborn child on campus. Read more here.
SUPREME COURT VACATES SIXTH CIRCUIT RULING ON TITLE X FUNDS FOR TENNESSEE. The U.S. Supreme Court has vacated an abortion-related ruling by the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in the case Tennessee v. Kennedy and remanded it back to the lower court. The case is centered on whether Tennessee must refer patients for abortions in order to receive Title X funding under a rule established by the Biden administration. Read more here.
YOUNG AMERICANS ARE BECOMING MORE PRO-LIFE: GALLUP POLL. According to data from Gallup and others, the percentage of young adults calling themselves pro-life climbed to about 37 percent in 2025, an increase of 8 to 11 percentage points compared to polls from 2022 and 2023. Read more here.
RADICAL FEMINIST SAYS WOMEN SHOULD CELEBRATE THEIR ABORTIONS WITH THEIR KIDS. Becca Rea-Tucker says women who celebrate their abortions should frame aborting their sibling as a normal life choice that can lead to having other kids — a stance that pro-life groups say normalizes the abortion of unborn boys and girls who should be brothers and sisters. Read more here.
NEW POLL: MOST AMERICANS CONTINUE TO SUPPORT RESTRICTIONS ON ABORTION. A new poll revealed that less than 40 percent of Americans considered themselves “pro-life” as opposed to “pro-choice,” yet more than two-thirds continued to support certain restrictions on abortion. Read more here.
TRUMP ADMIN REFERS MINNESOTA TO DOJ FOR ALLOWING MEN IN WOMEN’S SPORTS. The Trump administration announced that it has referred Minnesota to the Department of Justice for enforcement action over allowing transgender-identifying males in female sports and spaces. Read more here.
3200 PEOPLE ‘CHANGED’ GENDER IN PORTUGAL. Between 2018 and 2025, the Registo Civil in Portugal legally changed the gender and name of 3300 people. Among the statistics released, 323 young people aged 16 and 17 went to the Registo Civil to change their names and gender. Read more here.
TRANS-IDENTIFIED MALE ARRESTED AFTER MURDERING WOMAN IN FRONT OF HER CHILDREN. A trans-identified male has been arrested in São Paulo, Brazil, after stabbing his former friend to death while she was cradling one of her young children in her arms, and the following day Brazil’s Ministry of Women issued a statement warning people about engaging in criminal “online transphobia.” Read more here.
NEBRASKA GOVERNOR VOWS TO ELIMINATE DEI, ‘PRONOUN CULTURE’ FROM PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES. During Nebraska Gov. Nebraska Jim Pillen’s State of the State address to the legislature, he criticized DEI and “pronoun culture,” and pledged to remove their influence from public universities in Nebraska. Read more here.
CAMBRIDGE STUDENT: PUB BANNED ME FOR MY ‘HORRIBLE’ VIEWS ON ‘TRANS PEOPLE.’ A British university student who recently founded an organization exclusively for biological women accused a pub of denying her service this month due to her allegedly “horrible” views about “vulnerable trans people.” Read more here.
NYU PROMOTES LEFT-WING ‘PUBLIC SCHOOLS STRONG’ CAMPAIGN TO RESHAPE K-12 EDUCATION. New York University hosted a virtual event promoting the “Public Schools Strong” campaign and gender ideology. Read more here.
CONSERVATIVES MOBILIZE TO OVERTURN OBERGEFELL. A coalition of 47 conservative organizations is launching a campaign to challenge the Supreme Court’s 2015 ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, which the groups claim redefined marriage to emphasize the desires of adults over the needs of children. Read more here.
HALF OF PORTLAND STATE U. STUDENTS ARE LGBT, SURVEY SAYS. Half of the students at Portland State University are confused about their gender or have homosexual inclinations, according to a new survey published by the campus. Read more here.
EX-PLANNED PARENTHOOD WORKER HAUNTED BY HER EXPERIENCES. A former employee of Planned Parenthood, Nallely Perez said she was disturbed by the grotesque images of aborted children she saw and was haunted by dreams, leading her to resign and join the pro-life movement. Read more here.
NEW SURVEY: MOST AMERICANS SUPPORT RELIGIOUS LIBERTY IN THE PUBLIC SQUARE. 57 percent of Americans agree that religious freedom is inherently public, and that Americans should be free to share their faith in public spaces, such as at school, work or on social media — a five-point rise since 2020, according to a Becket study. Read more here.
GHANA’S REVISED NACCA SEXUALITY GUIDELINES WORSE THAN WITHDRAWN VERSION. Old Tafo Member of Parliament, Vincent Ekow Assafuah, has criticised the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NaCCA), saying a revised teachers’ manual on sexuality education is more problematic than the version withdrawn after public backlash. Read more here.
ESTONIA WARNED IT MAY HAVE JUST FIVE YEARS TO REVERSE POPULATION COLLAPSE. Experts warn that Estonia has just a few years to reverse its declining birth rate, and the government is being encouraged to take action to spur more people to embrace families and parenthood. Read more here.
FORMER HOMOSEXUAL: SAME-SEX ‘MARRIAGE’ HAS BEEN A DISASTER FOR CHILDREN. WE MUST OVERTURN IT, by Doug Mainwaring. “On June 26, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court took a sledgehammer to the bedrock of Western civilization when it instituted homosexual ‘marriage’ across the land. Through its Obergefell ruling, the immutable definition of marriage – which had been revered by every religion and society around the world for millennia – was undone, doing untold damage.” Read more here.
WHY THE SUPREME COURT MUST CLEARLY DEFINE BIOLOGICAL SEX OR THE BATTLE IN THE COURTS WILL NEVER END, by Kimberly Hermann. “America is finally having to reckon with the issues of transgenderism in athletics and schools. From classrooms to locker rooms to athletic fields, the radical transgender agenda has collided head-on with common sense, fairness, and the safety of our children.” Read more here.
MORE EFFICIENT PRENATAL DOWN’S SYNDROME TEST RINGS ALARM BELLS, by the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children. “Researchers at Royal Bolton Hospital have announced a world first in the use of artificial intelligence to improve the accuracy of prenatal screening for Down’s syndrome. While the development has been welcomed in the medical field as a technical breakthrough, it also throws an uncomfortable spotlight on why such refined testing exists in the first place.” Read more here.
GOVERNORS NEWSOM AND WALZ WALK A DANGEROUS LINE, EXPANDING ABORTION TO THE POINT OF INFANTICIDE, by Olivia Summers. “While Dobbs overturned Roe and returned abortion policy to the people and their elected representatives, it did not end the battle for life – just relocated it. Today, the most consequential and egregious assaults on human dignity are unfolding at the state level, where lawmakers are quietly rewriting laws in ways that strip protections from the most vulnerable, including infants born alive after failed abortions – effectively legalizing infanticide.” Read more here.
‘I HATED MY GUTS’: WOMEN EXPLAIN HOW ABORTION DROVE THEM TO DEPRESSION, SUICIDAL THOUGHTS, by Jonathon Van Maren. “A ten-day trial that ended in Kansas City, Missouri, on Monday revealed the horrifying cost of abortion. Witness after witness came forward to testify to the impact of abortion on their lives. The trial was a standoff between Planned Parenthood, America’s largest abortion cartel, and the Missouri Attorney Generals’ Office. Abortion is legal in Missouri, but Planned Parenthood is challenging the many restrictions and regulations that limit access to abortion, which they claim are unconstitutional under Missouri’s voter-approved Amendment 3, which created a ‘right to abortion’ in 2024.” Read more here.
HOW THE ABORTION INDUSTRY ENABLES HUMAN TRAFFICKING, by Brad Mattes. “Each year sex trafficking claims an estimated 100,000 new victims in the US and in various forms enslaves as many as 400,000 young people. Shockingly, the average age of enslavement of girls is 12-14 years. While public awareness of sex trafficking is growing, sadly most Americans have yet to comprehend just how deeply its ugly tentacles have infiltrated American society. Sex trafficking is literally all around us—hiding in plain sight, if we know what to look for.” Read more here.
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