Family Watch Newswire

May 23, 2025

ONGOING FAILURE TO IMPROVE NHS MATERNITY CARE ‘COSTS LIVES OF HUNDREDS OF BABIES A YEAR’: REPORT. A troubling report by two charities estimates that some 2,500 babies died because of failures to improve NHS maternity care in England since 2018. Read more here.

ABORTION UP TO BIRTH MAY BEGIN IN COLORADO. Former staff of the recently shuttered Boulder Abortion Clinic announced plans to open a new facility in Boulder, Colorado that would continue killing babies in abortions, including up to the moment of birth. Read more here.

SECOND WOMAN PLEADS GUILTY TO THREATENING JUDGE OVER ABORTION PILL CASE. Dolly Kay Patterson of California pleaded guilty for sending threatening messages to the office of a Texas judge presiding over a case on abortion pill regulations, threatening both him and his children. Read more here.

INDIANA ABORTIONS DROP 97 PERCENT AFTER ABORTION BAN GOES INTO EFFECT. Indiana’s annual 2024 abortion report is an aggregate of the 2024 quarterly reports showing that brick-and-mortar abortions in Indiana decreased drastically from 2023, likely due to the state’s life-at-conception law being in effect for the entirety of that year. Read more here.

TEXAS HOUSE APPROVES PRO-LIFE MONUMENT TO REMEMBER VICTIMS OF ABORTION. By a vote of 98-44, the Texas House of Representatives has approved a resolution to erect a pro-life monument on the Capitol grounds, in order to honor the sanctity of life and memorialize the unborn babies lost to abortion. Read more here.

PRO-LIFE GROUPS WANT CONGRESS TO REPEAL FACE ACT, NEVER IMPRISON PRO-LIFE GRANDMAS AGAIN. Pro-life advocates are intensifying calls for Congress to repeal the FACE Act, a 1994 pro-abortion law that has been weaponized to target peaceful pro-life activists, including elderly women, for their beliefs. Read more here.

U.S. HOUSE BILL BLOCKS MEDICAID FOR ‘SEX CHANGES.’ House Republicans secured a provision in the “big, beautiful bill” prohibiting taxpayer funding for all “gender transition” procedures. Read more here.

VIRGINIA GOVERNOR BACKS BOYS WHO WERE FILMED BY FEMALE TRANS TEEN IN HIGH SCHOOL LOCKER ROOM. Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin expressed outrage about a “sexual harassment” investigation of three teen boys by Stone Bridge High School after a transgender student videotaped them in the boys locker room and they complained. Read more here.

TWO MEN TAKE HOME ‘WOMEN’S+’ LONGSWORD MEDALS AT WESTERN MARTIAL ARTS TOURNAMENT. Trans-identified males have won women’s longsword medals in a tournament that had multiple male participants competing against females in the women’s category. Read more here.

‘A BIOLOGICAL DIFFERENCE’: STAR NFL QB SPEAKS OUT AGAINST MEN IN WOMEN’S SPORTS. Aaron Rodgers, the former Green Bay Packers and New York Jets star quarterback, spoke out against men competing against women, blasting the transgender movement as “anti-woman.” Read more here.

OREGON EDUCATION SERVICE DISTRICT BANS CHILDREN’S BOOKS. Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys filed a lawsuit on behalf of a licensed clinical social worker after the InterMountain Education Service District banned him from displaying the children’s books, “He is He,” “She is She,” and “Johnny the Walrus,” behind his office desk. Read more here.

MIT ALLOWS EVENT CRITICIZING ‘GENDER TRANSITIONING’ TO PROCEED DESPITE LARGE PROTEST. A recent event at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology focused on concerns about “gender transitioning” and a fundraiser at a nearby restaurant after the panel drew a large protest and calls for a boycott. Read more here.

TAXPAYER-FUNDED LIBRARIES THUMB NOSE AT TRUMP, HOST HOMOSEXUAL PRIDE CELEBRATIONS. The Memphis Public Library is hosting a massive celebration commemorating homosexual pride month, including rainbow family story time at branches across the city. Read more here.

PLANNED PARENTHOOD AFFILIATE PLANS TO CLOSE 4 CLINICS IN IOWA AND ANOTHER 4 IN MINNESOTA. Four of the six Planned Parenthood clinics in Iowa and four in Minnesota will shut down in a year, the Midwestern affiliate operating them said Friday, blaming a freeze in federal funds, budget cuts proposed in Congress, and state restrictions on abortion. Read more here.

PLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTH CENTRAL STATES TO LAY OFF 66 WORKERS, RESTRUCTURE PRESENCE IN MINNESOTA. Planned Parenthood North Central States is laying off 66 workers, and reassigning an additional 37, as it closes and consolidates health centers located in Apple Valley, Bemidji, Richfield and Alexandria. Read more here.

PENNSYLVANIA PLANNED PARENTHOOD ADVOCATES WARN OF CLINIC CLOSURES IF ORGANIZATION IS DROPPED FROM MEDICAID PROGRAM. Planned Parenthood advocates and leaders in Pennsylvania say a federal proposal to block clinics from participating in the Medicaid health insurance program could lead to future closures across the commonwealth. Read more here.

NEW WHO GUIDANCE CALLS FOR INJECTABLE CONTRACEPTIVES FOR KIDS, by Iulia-Elena Cazan and Rebecca Oas. “The World Health Organization (WHO) released a new guideline on preventing adolescent pregnancies in low and middle-income countries. The proposed framework advances a vision of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) for young people that promotes controversial ideas, and norm changes inconsistent with what governments have agreed to. …In its recommendations, the WHO frames adolescents’ choice to discontinue ‘contraceptive use due to side-effects, and due to changing life circumstances and reproductive intentions’ in a negative light and as an obstacle to overcome.” Read more here.

CONGRESS CLOSER TO DEFUNDING PLANNED PARENTHOOD AFTER HOUSE PASSES ’BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL,’ by Jordan Boyd. “The House of Representatives voted on Wednesday night to pass a hefty spending bill that will significantly cut the flow of federal dollars to the organizations responsible for ending the lives of hundreds of thousands of unborn babies each year. The ‘One Big Beautiful Bill Act’ is far from the perfect fraud and waste solution some claim it to be. It still adds $3.1 trillion to the national debt and includes provisions that explicitly protect aspects of taxpayer-funded healthcare. The legislation does, however, ensure none of those Medicaid dollars ‘shall be used to make payments to a prohibited entity for items and services furnished during a 10-year period.’” Read more here.

WITH MIFEPRISTONE FLOODING THE COUNTRY, WE NEED ABORTION PILL REVERSAL MORE THAN EVER, by Michael McHale. “Elizabeth sat huddled on her bathroom floor, covered in blood and living a nightmare. She had taken mifepristone and misoprostol, the drugs in the two-part chemical abortion regimen, and she had no idea that she’d experience the worst pain she’d ever experienced. ‘I was not prepared for how severe and devastating those drugs were going to be,’ she shared in a 2024 testimony. ‘It was so incredibly traumatic.’ Unfortunately, Elizabeth’s tragic experience isn’t an outlier.” Read more here.

RISKY BUSINESS, by Bernard Lane. “Australian Health Minister Mark Butler’s intervention in the field of youth gender dysphoria may lead to increased medico-legal risk for children’s hospitals and doctors involved in paediatric medical transition. On January 31 this year, Mr Butler undermined the de facto national status of treatment guidelines issued by the Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH) Melbourne, when he announced that the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) would subject those guidelines to a ‘comprehensive review,’ and develop a new set of evidence-based national guidelines.” Read more here.

WHY DO MARRIED-COUPLE HOUSEHOLDS EXPERIENCE FEWER HARDSHIPS THAN OTHER HOUSEHOLDS?, by John Iceland and Jaehoon Cho. “Married-couple households are more affluent and experience fewer hardships than other types of households, such as single-parent families or people living on their own. Our new research brief, based on our paper in Demographic Research, explores why, focusing on differences across household types in income, non-income resources, such as wealth, and demographic and socioeconomic characteristics, such as age and education.” Read more here.

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