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.

October 15, 2025

‘QUEER’ PASTOR SAYS ABORTION ‘HELPS’ CHILDREN SO THEY DON’T GROW UP IN A ‘CHALLENGING HOUSEHOLD.’ Babies should be killed in the womb so they do not grow up in an “unsupportive” situation, says Kurt Kaufman, a self-described “queer” Protestant pastor. Read more here.

 

54,000 HOSPITAL ADMISSIONS IN UK AS A RESULT OF PILLS-BY-POST. More than 54,000 women in England have been admitted to NHS hospitals for treatment following complications linked to abortion pills since the government introduced pills-by-post in 2020. Read more here.

 

PRESIDENT TRUMP RECOGNIZES DIGNITY OF PEOPLE WITH DOWN SYNDROME. President Donald Trump issued a formal statement recognizing the dignity and value of all persons with Down syndrome for Down Syndrome Awareness Month. Down Syndrome children are often at risk of abortion. Read more here.

BOSTON HEALTH CENTER STOPS ‘GENDER TRANSITIONS’ FOR MINORS TO COMPLY WITH TRUMP RULES. Fenway Health in Massachusetts is the latest prominent medical system to stop conducting gender transition procedures on anyone under age 19 in response to the Trump administration cutting off federal funds to providers of such practices. Read more here.

 

IRAN PIVOTS TO TRANS SURGERY TOURISM. Iran, long known for pressuring homosexual and trans people into unwanted operations under threat of severe punishment, is now pitching itself as a bargain destination for “gender-changing” procedures. Read more here.

 

BRITISH COLUMBIA LAWMAKERS REJECT BILL TO PROTECT CHILDREN FROM ‘GENDER TRANSITIONS.’ The BC Legislative Assembly voted down the Protecting Minors From Gender Transition Act, which aimed to protect children from the worst effects of the LGBT agenda, by a 48-40 vote. The legislation would have restricted gender-transition procedures for children and required parental consent for pronouns changes in school. Read more here.

 

FASHION TURNS: TRANS AND QUEER LABELS FADE AMONG U.S. YOUTH. Drawing on large-scale survey data, Professor Eric Kaufmann of the University of Buckingham found the share of students identifying as a gender other than male or female has fallen from nearly 7 percent in 2023 to just 3.6 percent this year, describing this as a “startling and unanticipated post-progressive development.” Read more here.

 

TRANS-IDENTIFIED MALE WHO STABBED HIS MOTHER TO DEATH SENTENCED TO PRISON, CLASSIFIED AS A ‘FEMALE’ INMATE. A trans-identified male who brutally murdered his mother has been sentenced to 20 years to life in prison, according to a press release from the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office that referred to Andre “Drea” Eugene as a “woman.” Read more here.

 

DARLINGTON NHS NURSES COULD FACE MISCONDUCT PROBE FOR COMPLAINING ABOUT SHARING SAME CHANGING ROOM WITH TRANS COLLEAGUE. Bethany Hutchison, Lisa Lockey, Annice Grundy and Tracey Hooper, who all work at the Darlington Memorial Hospital, could be forced into disciplinary proceedings after complaining about being forced to undress in front of Rose Henderson, who identifies as a female but has not undergone any physical or hormonal transition. Read more here.

 

PAGEANT WINNER WHO REFUSED MISS AMERICA CONTRACT GIVEN CONGRESSIONAL AWARD. Kayleigh Bush, the Miss North Florida 2025 pageant winner who was stripped of her title after refusing to sign a Miss America contract that falsely defines “female” to include castrated males, was honored by the She Leads America organization with the 2025 Young Christian Woman of Distinction award. Read more here.

 

CONGRESSMEN DEMAND NETFLlX EXPLAIN ‘DEMONIC’ TRANSGENDER CONTENT IN CHILDREN’S SHOWS. Tennessee Republican Congressman Tim Burchett and House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (Rep, KY) are calling for NetfIix executives to explain the massive amounts of “demonic” transgender content in its children’s programing. Read more here.

 

U.S. SUPREME COURT REJECTS CASE ABOUT COLORADO SCHOOL HIDING ‘SEX TRANSITIONS’ FROM PARENTS. Two sets of parents with minor children at Wellington Middle School in Poudre School District R-1 asked the High Court to revive their lawsuit after lower courts dismissed the case on procedural grounds without considering the merits of the case. Read more here.

 

FEDERAL JUDGE REJECTS TRANS ATHLETE’S BID TO DISMISS SUPREME COURT CASE. U.S. District Judge David Nye rejected former Boise State trans athlete Lindsay Hecox’s motion to dismiss his case against an Idaho law banning males in women’s sports, after the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case. Read more here.

BIBLICAL DEFINITION OF MARRIAGE HIGH AMONG CHURCHGOERS, BUT DEFINITION OF FAMILY LESS SO, STUDY SAYS. A recent study found that among adults who attend Christian worship at least monthly, 68 percent agreed marriage is between one man and one woman, but only 46 percent defined “family” in corresponding terms of a husband and wife, their children, and relatives. Read more here.

STORYBOOK FOR KINDERGARTENERS FEATURES HOMOSEXUAL ROOSTERS, MEN WEARING LEATHER HARNESSES. There’s new curriculum for five-year-olds in Lexington, Massachusetts, where students will be exposed to the storybook “This Day in June,” which features men in leather bondage attire, a pride parade and drag queens dressed as nuns. Read more here.

DENVER PLANNED PARENTHOOD: TWO MEDICAL EMERGENCIES SHROUDED IN SECRECY. In the past four months, two separate medical emergencies have occurred at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Denver, yet local authorities and the abortion industry have seemingly worked very hard to hide the details. Read more here.

 

PLANNED PARENTHOOD’S ‘FACT CHECK’ OF BABY DEVELOPMENT VIDEO COLLAPSES UNDER REAL SCIENCE. Planned Parenthood Florida Action recently attempted a so-called “fact check” on Live Action’s prenatal development video, “Meet Baby Olivia,” and claimed the video is inaccurate and misleading. Read more here.

‘THEY TOOK OUR CHILDREN’: CHRISTIAN PARENTS BRING SWEDEN BEFORE EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS AFTER ALMOST 3 YEARS’ SEPARATION FROM DAUGHTERS. Daniel and Bianca Samson have filed a case against Sweden at the European Court of Human Rights, seeking to regain custody of their daughters three years after a severe violation of their parental rights and religious freedom. Read more here.

REVISED CHINESE LAW SPARKS DEBATE ON SEXUALITY EDUCATION. Minutes before Professor Liu Wenli was set to speak in a webinar on the development of sex education in China, she learned that the country’s top legislative body had passed an amendment making sex education mandatory starting next year with the amended law mandating inclusion in school syllabuses of “sex education.” Read more here.

CASH AID FOR MOMS: MICHIGAN PROGRAM CUTS INFANT POVERTY, BOOSTS FAMILIES. A Michigan-based program, called Rx Kids, aims to improve health, hope and opportunity for expecting mothers by providing thousands of dollars to lessen poverty and improve babies’ health. Read more here.

PHOTO OF GENDER-CONFUSED GIRL MUTILATED BY DOUBLE MASTECTOMY WINS EUROPEAN PRESS AWARD, by Jonathon Van Maren. “The World Press Photo Awards is an annual prize in which the jury chooses the most powerful journalistic photos for the prestigious World Press Photo of the Year. …one of the European winners … depicts a young woman, identified as 21-year-old ‘Mika,’ with two ugly red gashes across her chest spanning nearly from armpit to armpit. The vivid mastectomy scars are held together by pieces of tape.” Read more here.

 

CHILES V. SALAZAR: A DEFINING TEST FOR THE FIRST AMENDMENT, by Colin Wright. “In what may become the most important free speech case of the decade, the Supreme Court on October 7 heard oral arguments in Chiles v. Salazar, a challenge to Colorado’s ban on “conversion therapy” for minors. …At stake is not only therapists’ professional freedom but parents and minors’ ability to seek counseling consistent with their beliefs about sex, identity, and morality.” Read more here.

 

‘GENDER AFFIRMING CARE’: A FOREST OF WORD GAMES AND LIES, by Kevin Keller. “Even well-intentioned courts and lawmakers stare at so-called Gender-Affirming Care (GAC) horrors like the Victrola Dog stares at the phonograph, head cocked, baffled. After all, they have never seen doctors convincing children that they were born in the wrong body. They have never seen puberty being ‘paused’ on children, cross-sex mega-dosed hormones, mutilation of breasts and genitalia, sterilization, chemical and surgical castration — all in the name of ‘science’ and ‘medicine.’” Read more here.

 

THE FEDERAL ABORTION PUPPETEER, by Tony Perkins. “When the U.S. Supreme Court handed down the Dobbs decision in June 2022, many in Washington and the media declared that abortion was now a matter for the states. While the ruling did not explicitly say abortion was a state issue, it did affirm that states have the authority to regulate abortion — and in doing so, it appeared to cut the strings of federal control, freeing states to protect the unborn. But three years later, Americans are discovering that those strings were never truly severed.” Read more here.

 

DEMS’ SHUTDOWN WISH LIST: $3.9 MILLION FOR ‘LGBTQI+ DEMOCRACY’ IN THE BALKANS WHILE AMERICANS GO UNPAID, by Eli Shepherd. “We’re now entering the third week of what Speaker Mike Johnson rightly calls ‘the Democrat government shutdown.’ …The Democrat demand sheet for reopening the government reads less like a budget proposal and more like the syllabus for a gender studies class at Berkeley. Johnson laid it out plain: To turn the lights back on, Democrats want to spend $3.9 million on ‘LGBTQI+ democracy grants’ in the Western Balkans. Because nothing says ‘essential American governance’ like teaching Balkan bureaucrats about pronouns.” Read more here.