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.
November 17, 2025
CALLS FOR SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT TO REJECT EXTREME ABORTION UP TO BIRTH PLANS. A review of abortion law in Scotland commissioned by the Scottish Government and undertaken by a group chaired by a former trustee of the UK’s largest abortion provider, has recommended that Scotland scrap the 24-week time limit and allow abortions on social grounds, including for sex-selective purposes, right up to birth. Read more here.
UNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE CLASS PARTNERS WITH STUDENT PRO-ABORTION GROUP. The University of Evansville, in Indiana, promoted an abortion-themed student performance called “Monologue A” through its official PurplePulse campus bulletin. Read more here.
CAMPUS PRO-LIFE ACTIVIST DESCRIBES PRO-ABORTION HATE AT VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY. A leader in the Students for Life campus chapter at the University of Mary Washington recently spoke out about the abuse pro-life students receive from pro-abortion zealots for voicing their views, with anecdotes all too familiar to many across America. Read more here.
TEXAS TOWN BECOMES 84TH CITY IN AMERICA TO BAN ABORTIONS. The city of Marietta, Texas is the 84th city in the nation, and the 67th city in the State of Texas, to pass a Sanctuary City for the Unborn Ordinance. Read more here.
TEXAS A&M REGENTS BAN UNAPPROVED RACE OR GENDER IDEOLOGY IN CLASSES. The Texas A&M System Board of Regents voted unanimously to require presidential approval for courses that advocate for race or gender ideology, stating that “no system academic course will advocate race or gender ideology, sexual orientation, or gender identity unless the course is approved by the member CEO.” Read more here.
MASSACHUSETTS APPOINTS MALE TRANS ACTIVIST TO WOMEN’S COMMISSION. Democrat Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey is drawing fire from conservatives for appointing Giselle Byrd, a biological male transgender activist, as the new vice chair of the Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Women’s Programming and Planning Committee. The appointment became effective Nov. 1. Read more here.
‘TRANSGENDER’ MAN SUES NEWS OUTLET REDUXX FOR REFERRING TO HIM AS MALE. A gender-confused Japanese man who identifies as female is suing the journalistic outlet Reduxx for alleged defamation and “inaccurate” reporting after it referred to him as a man. Read more here.
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH CENTER HOSTS ‘DRAG QUEEN BINGO’ FUNDRAISER. The event is described as a fundraiser to support the Union Scholarship Fund, a program created to “support historically underrepresented students to fund their education.” Read more here.
AAFP LEANS INTO ‘GENDER TRANSITION’ PROCEDURES ON MINORS AS U.S. BACKTRACKS. During the annual conference of the American Academy of Family Physicians recently, a session titled “Gender Affirming Puberty Suppression: Initiation and Management” instructed attendees to gratify a 12-year-old’s desires over and against the counsel of both his parents and the mass of emerging medical evidence. Read more here.
MINNESOTA WOMEN’S HOCKEY TEAM FEATURES FOUR MALE PLAYERS, WITH EVEN MORE PARTICIPATING ON WOMEN’S TEAMS ACROSS THE STATE. A female hockey player in Minnesota has resigned from her team in protest of policies which allowed four trans-identified males to be accepted onto the women’s roster. Read more here.
A WIN FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AND WOMEN’S RIGHTS IN SPORTS IN VERMONT. The Second Circuit, reversing an earlier order to the contrary, reasoned that educational officials, parents, and the female student-athletes were entitled to a preliminary injunction reinstating the school’s membership in the Vermont Principals’ Association (VPA), the organization regulating the state’s middle- and high-school extracurricular activities. Read more here.
POLISH STATE POLLING AGENCY FINDS RECORD SUPPORT FOR SAME-SEX PARTNERSHIPS. State research agency CBOS has found its highest-ever level of support in Poland for the introduction of civil partnerships for same-sex couples, with almost two thirds of Poles in favor. The findings come as the government finalizes a bill intended to grant certain rights to same-sex partners. Read more here.
SOLDIER PUNISHED FOR PROTECTING HIS KIDS, SPEAKING OUT AGAINST LGBT ACTIVISTS. The career and family safety of a highly decorated U.S. military member who risked his life defending liberty on eight overseas deployments spoke out against secret LGBTQ programming in his children’s public school, and now his career is at risk. 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.
TRUMP ORDERS STATES TO LET RELIGIOUS COUPLES BE FOSTER PARENTS. President Donald Trump issued an executive order tasking Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. with strengthening federal ties to religious organizations that serve foster families, and with confronting policies that discourage qualified families from participating in programs because of sincerely held beliefs. Read more here.
OREGON SCHOOL DISTRICT PAYS $650,000 AFTER FIRING EDUCATORS FOR SPEAKING ON GENDER POLICY. Two educators in Oregon, represented by Alliance Defending Freedom and Pacific Justice Institute attorneys, reached a favorable settlement with a school district that violated their free speech, religious freedom and equal protection rights. Read more here.
JUDGE WANTS TO CANCEL MOM’S PARENTAL RIGHTS BECAUSE SHE’S A CHRISTIAN. The fight at the Maine Supreme Court is between two people who never married, but whose daughter now is nearly a teen, and judges will determine whether or not the state can simply overturn the constitutional religious rights of parents. Read more here.
CHRISTIAN PRESCHOOLS APPEAL TO SUPREME COURT OVER PRE-K PROGRAM. In the federal lawsuit St. Mary Catholic Parish v. Roy, St. Mary Catholic Parish in Littleton and St. Bernadette Catholic Parish in Lakewood, Colorado alleged that the state excluded them from sending their children to a free pre-school program because of their religious beliefs. Read more here.
NEW DOCUMENTARY LINKS RISE IN GERMAN DAYCARE SEX ABUSE TO WHO GUIDELINES SHAPED BY PEDOPHILIA. A new film argues WHO sex ed guidelines incorporating pedophilic concepts of sexual exploration to kids correlates with a nationwide rise in child sexual assaults in daycare centers. Read more here.
TOKYO ENACTS FOUR-DAY WORKWEEK TO HELP END JAPAN’S DEMOGRAPHIC CRISIS. In an attempt to raise falling birth rates, Tokyo is making headlines with an unprecedented initiative: a four-day workweek for its government employees as an attempt to reverse Japan’s alarming demographic crisis and tackle the country’s status as the world’s oldest population. Read more here.
NEW YORK GOVERNOR CREATES $1,800 BABY BONUS. New York Governor Kathy Hochul has announced the BABY Benefit (Birth Allowance for Beginning Year), a scheme that will give parents $1,800 for each child born or adopted during the 2025–2026 fiscal year. Read more here.
HISTORIC FIRST: TEXAS ADDS PARENTAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT TO CONSTITUTION. Texas has become the first U.S. state to enshrine into the state constitution the fundamental right of parents to raise their children. Read more here.
GALLUP POLL REPORTS 17-POINT DROP IN AMERICANS WHO SAY RELIGION IMPORTANT TO DAILY LIVES. Only 49 percent of Americans now call religion important to their life, according to a new survey by leftist pollster Gallup, down from 66 percent in 2015. Read more here.
PREPARE FOR DOCTORS TO SMUGGLE SUICIDE AND TRANS DRUGS INTO RED STATES LIKE ABORTION PILLS, by Gavin Oxley. “Doctors such as Margaret Carpenter of New York have leveraged shield laws to mail chemical abortion drugs to women in states where the drugs are now illegal. Shield laws have been subverted since the overturning of Roe v. Wade and could expand to protect doctors mailing other dangerous drugs, such as for assisted suicide. By prescribing chemical abortion drugs to women in states where providers are not licensed, the doctors are practicing outside the scope of their licensure.” Read more here.
PORTUGAL’S TRANSGENDER AGENDA LEAVES PARENTS FIGHTING AN UPHILL BATTLE, by Miguel Nunes Silva. “The horrendous phenomenon of gender ideology in public schools is not exclusive to the Anglosphere, and the social epidemic of sex changes and its inhumane consequences do not seem to perturb the Portuguese government, be it the Socialist Party (PS) or the Social Democratic Party (PSD) in power. What is being observed across the West is the very clear result of indoctrination, peer pressure, and brainwashing. To use Marxist terminology, it is an artificial ‘social construct’ directly correlated to the intersectional propaganda in the social environment of the young individuals in question.” Read more here.
THE ESSENTIALISM BIAS IN TRANSGENDER MEDICINE, by Christina Buttons. “Gender-affirming pediatricians don’t offer uncertainty. They offer the confidence of settled science: the young people who enter their clinics are ‘transgender,’ and medical interventions, such as hormone treatments and genital surgeries, will align their brains with their bodies. While no scan or blood test can verify this diagnosis, treatment begins regardless. In modern medicine, ‘being transgender’ is often portrayed as a condition with biological underpinnings. This belief endures despite decades of unsuccessful searches for an objective biomarker.” Read more here.
WORLDWIDE BIRTH RATES ARE SO CRITICALLY LOW, ABORTION BANS MAKE SENSE, by Corwin King. “In 2021, the last year for which data is reasonably complete, about 68 million people in the world died from disease, accidents, violence, and old age. The same year, according to the World Health Organization, about 73 million lives were lost from another cause: Medically induced abortions. Assuming an aborted fetus is a person — a hot debate between pro-choice and pro-life advocates — this means that abortion is not only the leading cause of death worldwide, but greater than all other causes combined.” Read more here.
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