Family Watch Newswire

November 14, 2025

EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS UNDERMINES RIGHT TO LIFE FOR THE DISABLED UNBORN IN POLISH CASE. Europe’s highest court has ruled against Poland in the case of A.R. v. Poland, finding a violation of Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which protects the right to private and family life. Read more here.

AUSTRALIAN STATE DEFEATS BILL TO PROTECT BABIES FROM LATE-TERM ABORTIONS. Current law in South Australia “allows abortions after 23 weeks if the pregnancy would involve ‘significant risk to the physical or mental health’ of the pregnant person,” and a defeated legislation “sought to limit terminations after 23 weeks to situations where there was a significant risk of fetal abnormalities, to save the life of the expectant mother or the life of another fetus. Read more here.

GERMAN CITY OF REGENSBURG BACKS DOWN ON BUFFER ZONE LEGISLATION. In a significant victory for freedom of expression and the pro-life movement, the German city of Regensburg has withdrawn its restrictions on prayer vigils near abortion facilities, following rulings by the Regensburg Administrative Court and the Bavarian Administrative Court. Read more here.

MINISTERS DISMISS CONCERNS ABOUT ‘PILLS-BY-POST’ ABORTION. In a debate in the British House of Lords, over the provision of abortion pills via remote consultation (so-called “telemedical abortion”), the government strongly rejected calls to reinstate face-to-face requirements or otherwise restrict the policy. Read more here.

MICHIGAN BILLS WOULD RESTORE PARENTAL RIGHTS ON ABORTION. A series of bills (HB 5201, 5202, and 5203) were introduced in the Michigan legislature that would restore abortion reporting requirements and will ensure that women have a right to know accurate information about the procedure they are considering undergoing or medicine they are considering taking. Read more here.

PHILLY LAWMAKERS LINK ABORTION RIGHTS TO HUMAN RIGHTS. After Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood was blocked by the Trump Administration, Philadelphia council member Kendra Brooks introduced a resolution that was approved to recognize abortion rights as human rights. Read more here.

DISCHARGED TRANSGENDER AIR FORCE TROOPS SUE TO GET PENSIONS, BENEFITS. Seventeen transgender members of the Air Force who were discharged under the Trump administration’s transgender ban filed a lawsuit this week against the federal government for allegedly revoking their pensions and other benefits after their forced early retirement. Read more here.

CYPRUS BILL TO DEFINE WHAT A ‘WOMAN’ IS SPARKS FIERCE BACKLASH OVER TRANS RIGHTS. A bill seeking to define the terms “woman” and “gender” for the first time in Cyprus has triggered widespread opposition from rights organisations warning that trans women could lose legal protections. Read more here.

HOLY SEE REITERATES OPPOSITION TO GENDER IDEOLOGY AT UN CONFERENCE. The Holy See reiterated the Catholic Church’s position on gender, stating there are only males and females at the recent 16th Ministerial Conference of the United Nations Trade and Development. Read more here.

GERMAN COP INVESTIGATED FOR USING ALLEGED FAKE GENDER ‘CHANGE” TO GAIN PROMOTION. A Düsseldorf, Germany police officer’s gender “transition” is under the microscope by the department as officials accuse the officer, who recently registered a gender change from male to female, of doing so to gain unfair advantage in promotions. Read more here.

U.S. BISHOPS PASS DIRECTIVE FORBIDDING ‘TRANSGENDER SURGERIES’ AT CATHOLIC HOSPITALS. Catholic hospitals in the United States are explicitly forbidden from carrying out transgender-related surgeries on individuals who believe themselves to be the opposite sex, the U.S. bishops said this week. Read more here.

LIBERAL CHURCHES ‘PROCLAIM THE HOLINESS’ OF TRANSGENDERISM. Several liberal Protestant and Jewish denominations declared transgenderism “holy” this week in direct rebuke of a vote by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops to bar transgender procedures in Catholic healthcare facilities. Read more here.

TEXAS CHRISTIAN U. TO END GENDER, RACE STUDIES DEPARTMENTS. Texas Christian University will dissolve its Departments of Women and Gender Studies and Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies at the end of this academic year, merging both programs into the English Department. Read more here.

CALIFORNIA SCHOOL DISTRICT DISMISSES ITS OWN APPEAL; ALLOWS PARENTS TO OPT CHILDREN OUT OF RADICAL GENDER IDEOLOGY. First Liberty gained a legal victory when a California district court held that schools can’t compel students to speak messages that violate their conscience, and that the Encinitas Union School District must provide notice and opt-outs to parents and students from gender ideology materials that conflict with their religious beliefs. Read more here.

U.S. SUPREME COURT WILL HEAR GENDER IDEOLOGY IN FEMALE SPORTS CASES IN 2026. The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in two consolidated landmark sports cases regarding state laws that ban gender-confused males from participating in female sports: Little v. Hecox and West Virginia v. B.P.J, on January 13, 2026. Read more here.

MALTA PROSECUTION OF CHRISTIAN CONVERT A HARBINGER OF LGBT OBJECTIVES IN U.S. In a case with long-term ramifications for the United States, Maltese Christian Matthew Grech has been charged with violating the Mediterranean country’s so-called “conversion therapy” ban for simply sharing his personal testimony of Christian conversion from an LGBT lifestyle in a broadcast interview. Read more here.

UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS OFFERS ‘QUEER CHILDHOODS’ ENGLISH CLASS. “Queer Childhoods” and “Gender and Sexuality” are among the classes English students can take this semester at the University of Central Arkansas. The courses have drawn criticism from education experts who question the value of such topics. Read more here.

TENNESSEE SCHOOL SAYS ‘NO’ TO A FAITH-BASED SPORTS CLUB. First Liberty legal defense attorneys informed Smith County Board of Education, in Tennessee, that it will defend the rights of two students’ who were wrongfully prevented from starting a faith-based sports clubs at their schools. Read more here.

NEW JERSEY SCHOOL DISTRICT DENIES AID TO CHRISTIAN SCHOOL FAMILY. The American Center for Law and Justice is representing Christian parents whose children are being disallowed from the Parsippany-Troy Hills School District’s bus transportation of students to school because the family is Christian. 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.

PERSPECTIVE: IS DIVORCE CONTAGIOUS?, by Naomi Schaefer Riley. “Is divorce contagious? New research by my American Enterprise Institute colleague Dan Cox suggests the answer is yes. Looking at data from the Survey Center on American Life, he found that divorced Americans are much more likely to have close friends who are divorced and that people in social networks with more divorce also seem to have lower marital satisfaction themselves. Among Americans who are divorced, 41% have ‘some friends’ who are divorced. Among those who are married, only 21% have ‘some friends’ who are divorced.” Read more here.

THE COLLAPSE OF TRANS IDENTIFICATION, by Jonathon Van Maren. “After a decade of record numbers showing young people identifying somewhere on the LGBTQ spectrum—in 2023, the Centers for Disease Control reported that around a quarter of high school students identified as LGBTQ—the trend may have finally peaked. Last month, Eric Kaufmann, professor of politics at the University of Buckingham, published a report through the Centre for Heterodox Social Science titled ‘The Decline of Trans and Queer Identity among Young Americans,’ highlighting that ‘since 2023 both trans and queer identification have dropped sharply within Generation Z.’” Read more here.

THE ESSENTIALISM BIAS IN TRANSGENDER MEDICINE, by Christina Buttons. “In 1995, a Dutch team published a small postmortem study in Nature of six males who identified as women, reporting that their hypothalamic region more closely resembled the typical female pattern. This was widely considered a landmark finding. But later analyses of this study suggested that long-term cross-sex hormone use, known to alter brain structure, was the more likely explanation for the similarities found between trans-identifying people’s brains and those of the opposite sex.” Read more here.

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