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 21, 2026
YOUNG MEN FLOCKING TO PRO-LIFE MOVEMENT IN ‘HISTORIC NUMBERS.’ In the post-Dobbs era, public opinion polling indicates more Americans now claim to hold morally absolutist views on abortion, particularly young men, who are coming over to the pro-life movement in historic numbers. Read more here.
LEGAL CHALLENGE SEEKS TO INVALIDATE VIRGINIA ABORTION BALLOT. As Virginia residents are casting their ballots in the state’s early voting window for the 2026 midterm election, the legal challenge in Bansley v. Nardo asks the state’s appeals court to declare the pro-abortion amendment on those ballots invalid. Read more here.
FEMINISTS FOR LIFE ANNOUNCE NAME CHANGE TO WOMEN DESERVE BETTER. The pro-life group formerly known as Feminists for Life announced that it is changing its name to “Women Deserve Better,” refocusing its branding on the longtime slogan that captures the central message that abortion does not truly serve women’s welfare. Read more here.
DOCTORS TOLD MOM TO ABORT DISABLED TWIN, SHE REFUSED AND BOTH BABIES ARE GREAT. Marie Stockdale received concerning news when doctors told her one of her unborn twins had a rare brain condition and an abnormality with her esophagus, but she rejected abortion and now both daughters are more than eight months old. Read more here.
NEW ZEALAND: HIGH COURT OVERTURNS GOVERNMENT’S PUBERTY BLOCKER RESTRICTIONS. The High Court ruled the Government’s decision to prohibit new puberty blocker prescriptions for young people breached consultation requirements under the Medicines Act and unjustifiably discriminated against young people with gender dysphoria or gender incongruence on the basis of disability. Read more here.
SUPREME COURT REBUFFS TRUMP ADMIN RESTRICTIONS ON MEDICAL CARE FOR TRANS INMATES. The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to allow the Trump administration to immediately enforce new medical restrictions for transgender people in prison calling for the restriction of federal funding “for the purpose of conforming an inmate’s appearance to that of the opposite sex.” Read more here.
SCHOOL BACKPEDALS AFTER LAWSUIT, DROPS SECRET STUDENT GENDER POLICY. The School District of the Chathams in New Jersey agreed to rescind a policy that allowed teachers and school officials to keep parents in the dark about their children’s “gender identities.” Read more here.
MYSTERY: WHO’S SENDING TRANSGENDER GUIDES TO TEXANS? An “LGBTQ+ Student Resource Guide” flyer has been sent to Texas families to give tips to minors who are questioning their sexuality while their families are not supportive, but it isn’t clear who is sending the brochures. Read more here.
ILLINOIS SCHOOL DISTRICT PLACED MALE ROOMMATE OVERNIGHT WITH TEEN GIRLS, Legal Group Claims. Community High School District 128 allowed at least one male to share overnight accommodations with female high school students while withholding that information from parents, according to a legal group representing concerned parents. Read more here.
BRAZIL SEEKS TO REOPEN CASE AGAINST VETERINARY STUDENT WHO FACED 10 YEARS IN PRISON FOR ‘TRANSPHOBIA.’ After a previous dismissal of all charges, federal prosecutors in Brazil have filed a special appeal to reopen their case against Isadora Borges, a veterinary student who previously faced up to 10 years in prison for expressing her views on gender ideology on X. Read more here.
WNBA OFFICIALLY REJECTS EX-NBA PLAYER’S ELIGIBILITY FOR THE DRAFT, DECLARES HIM A MAN DESPITE HIS ‘TRANS’ CLAIM. The WNBA has responded to former NBA star Enes Kanter Freedom’s request to go out for the League’s draft–and they’ve said that they won’t allow it. Freedom has declared himself a woman and put himself out to be drafted by a WNBA team. Read more here.
TRANSGENDER POLICE OFFICERS FILE DISCRIMINATION COMPLAINT AFTER BEING CHARGED ‘AS MEN’ AFTER DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ARRESTS. Five officers, all of whom are men who identify as women, claim they should not have been charged with “gender-based violence” because they had “changed” their legal sex marker to “female.” Read more here.
UTAH HAS HIGHEST MARRIAGE RATE IN U.S. Using the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2024 American Community Survey, via USAFacts, to compare marriages and divorces reported over the previous 12 months per 1,000 residents aged 15 and older, Utah had America’s highest marriage rate, and Oklahoma recorded the highest divorce rate. Read more here.
HOMOSEXUAL DUTCH PM JETTEN HIRES SURROGATE TO CARRY BABY, ACCUSED OF SKIRTING THE LAW. Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten and homosexual partner Nicolas Keenan announced in a joint Instagram post that they are expecting a child via surrogate. Read more here.
PLANNED PARENTHOOD CELEBRATES ABORTING BABIES IN OUT OF STATE ABORTIONS. The Planned Parenthood Great Plains affiliate reported 38,698 total patients and 14,283 abortions in 2024-25, the equivalent of one abortion for every three patients it saw, despite abortion being illegal in half the states where they‘re located. Read more here.
INVESTIGATION OF 9 BANKS FINDS ‘IRREFUTABLE EVIDENCE’ THAT RELIGIOUS GROUPS WERE TARGETED. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency reviewed 50,000 documents sent from the nine largest national banks that it supervises, and it confirmed that religious groups were singled out for stances on abortion, LGBTQ issues, religious persecution and other social issues. Read more here.
ALABAMA’S NEW SEX EDUCATION LAW TAKES EFFECT IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS. A new Alabama law changing how sex education is taught in public schools took effect Oct. 1, requiring lessons to emphasize abstinence and giving parents more control over their children’s education. Read more here.
THERAPY MAY FUEL FAMILY ESTRANGEMENT AND CUTOFF CULTURE, EXPERTS SAY. Nearly four in 10 Americans are currently estranged from at least one close family member, and while therapy can be helpful in facilitating communication and mending relationships, some believe it could contribute to “cutoff culture.” Read more here.
NO, TWO MEN FAILING TO MAKE A BABY TOGETHER IS NOT ‘INFERTILITY,’ by Nathanael Blake. “Sodomy is not infertility. But money and ideology encourage pretending otherwise. For example, a recent piece in the New England Journal of Medicine complained that the World Health Organization’s guidelines on infertility aren’t inclusive enough because they ‘pertain only to heterosexual couples’ rather than also encompassing ‘LGBTQ+ people, as well as single people.’” Read more here.
DR. HUGH HODGE: AMERICA’S FORGOTTEN PRO-LIFE PIONEER, by Jonathon Van Maren. “On Nov. 6, 1839, Dr. Hugh Hodge gave an introductory lecture at the University of Pennsylvania to a hall full of medical students. As they carried out the obstetrician’s task of caring for pregnant women, he told them, they would be caring for mothers, but ‘we should not forget her offspring, in the various stages of its existence, from the moment of its conception to delivery, from birth to the full development of its physical and moral nature.’” Read more here.
HOW SCHOOLS ARE INDOCTRINATING YOUR KIDS, by Joanna Williams. “Parents are growing suspicious. In WhatsApp groups and at school gates, mums and dads worry aloud that teachers are not simply educating pupils but also filling their heads with views they do not share. Some fret about daughters now convinced they are actually boys, or young children taught about sex and relationships before they are ready.” Read more here.
WHY HAS AMERICA’S FERTILITY RATE DROPPED TO HISTORIC LOWS?, by Dan Hart. “With America’s and the globe’s fertility rate currently sagging to a historic low, a new survey data analysis has found that supportive friends and family, the influence of pro-natal celebrities, and an active religious life are all major contributors to boosting birth rates and helping couples achieve their desired family size.” Read more here.
THE NEW YORK TIMES COUNTS IDAHO’S MISSING DOCTORS — BUT NOT BABIES SAVED, by Paul Batura. “According to The New York Times, Idaho’s ban on abortion is making the state a more perilous place for women and a more dangerous location to give birth. You read that correctly. In this story, the Times’ diabolically convoluted logic roars into high gear. It seems that by banning the slaughter of innocent pre-born babies, women and babies are somehow worse off than they were prior to the overthrow of Roe.” Read more here.
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