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.
LIFE
SUPREME COURT HANDS DOWN DECISION ON ABORTION PILL ACCESS. The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a challenge from doctors on the use of the abortion pill, Mifepristone, unanimously declaring that the doctors who went after the Food and Drug Administration for making the pill easier to access did not have standing, and thus, the case was dismissed. Read more here.
WOMAN WHOSE HUSBAND POISONED HER WITH ABORTION PILL SPEAKS OUT. As the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments on the Biden administration’s loosening of abortion pill regulations, Catherine Herring publicly explained how her husband was imprisoned for slipping abortion drugs into her drinks, causing her to get violently ill. Read more here.
MASSACHUSETTS LAUNCHES MASSIVE ASSAULT ON PRO-LIFE PREGNANCY CENTERS. Massachusetts has launched what it calls a “public education campaign” against pro-life organizations, a campaign that targets pregnancy resource centers and is funded by a grant from the state legislature. Read more here.
DUO JAILED FOR FRAUD IN PRO-ABORTION FLORIDA BALLOT MEASURE INITIATIVE. Jamie Johnson and George Andrews III have been incarcerated for their roles in forging signatures during a petition drive related to a pro-abortion ballot measure, each on 20 felony charges. Read more here.
TEACHER CALLS IN SICK, TAKES STUDENT FOR SECRET ABORTION WITHOUT PARENTS KNOWING. A public school teacher in New Hampshire was fired for taking a fake sick day to bring a student to an abortion clinic without her parents knowing, according to an investigative report from the New Hampshire Department of Education. Read more here.
GENDER
FEDERAL JUDGE BLOCKS BIDEN ADMINISTRATION’S TITLE IX CHANGES IN FOUR STATES. U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty has blocked President Biden’s expansion of Title IX in four states, calling the mandatory gender identity protections an “abuse of power” and a “threat to democracy.” Read more here.
NEW MEXICO SCHOOL DISTRICT USED GRANT MONEY TO BUY ‘CHEST BINDERS.’ Las Cruces, New Mexico public schools accepted a grant to spend on a “transgender closet” for Centennial High School, but instead spent the vast majority on “chest binders” for cross-dressing students, according to a public records request. Read more here.
FOSTER PARENTS SUE VERMONT AFTER STATE REVOKES LICENSE FOR REJECTING GENDER IDEOLOGY. Two Vermont families who were inspired by their faith to foster children in their homes have filed a lawsuit against the state’s Department for Children and Families after the agency revoked their licenses for refusing to embrace gender ideology. Read more here.
SAN FRANCISCO DECLARES ITSELF A ‘SANCTUARY CITY’ FOR ‘TRANSGENDER, GENDER NON-CONFORMING, NON-BINARY, AND TWO-SPIRIT PEOPLE.’ Responding to conservative opposition to transgender ideology, the Board of Supervisors for the City of San Francisco declared the city officially expressed its commitment to TGNCI2S rights and equal protections for TGNCI2S people. Read more here.
RILEY GAINES URGES NCAA TO STRIP LIA THOMAS OF TITLES AFTER WORLD AQUATICS RULING. Women’s sports activist Riley Gaines is calling for the NCAA to strip transgender swimmer Lia Thomas of his national titles in women’s swimming championships in the wake of his failure to get international swimming to let him apply for the U.S. Women’s Olympics swimming team. Read more here.
FEDERAL COURT RULES AGAINST STUDENTS WHO WORE ‘ONLY TWO GENDERS’ SHIRT. The First Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled against Nichols Middle School student Liam Morrison, who was sent home for wearing a T-shirt displaying the message, “There are only two genders.” Read more here.
HUMAN SEXUALITY
VICTORY: ONTARIO CATHOLIC SCHOOL BOARD UPHOLDS BAN ON FLYING LGBT ‘PRIDE’ FLAG. In a victory for the pro-family movement and church teaching, an Ontario Catholic school board voted down a motion to fly non-governmental flags for various secular initiatives such as the LGBT pride flag. Read more here.
WOMAN FIRED FOR ‘STRAIGHT PRIDE’ POST. An Ohio news station employee, Madonna Chism Pinkard, was fired for a social media post joking about “straight pride” in response to LGBTQ pride month in June, stating, “Celebrate straight pride. It’s natural, it has worked for thousands of years, and you can make babies!” Read more here.
PLANNED PARENTHOOD
THE UNEXPECTED OPPONENT TO TELEHEALTH ABORTION SHIELD LAWS: PLANNED PARENTHOOD. While privately lobbying officials in California, New York and Massachusetts against abortion shield laws for doctors offering telehealth abortion, Planned Parenthood pushed for laws to protect abortionists within their own state. Read more here.
OPINION & ANALYSIS
SUPREME COURT DECISION MEANS WOMEN WILL BE HARMED BY DANGEROUS ABORTION PILLS, by Steven Ertelt. “The Supreme Court’s decision today to not allow pro-life doctors to challenge the lack of FDA safety regulations on the mifepristone abortion pill means women and girls will be killed by the abortion pill and continue being injured. The Supreme Court, by focusing on the legal procedures of standing, today upheld in FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine that the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) actions in 2016 and 2021 dropped virtually all safety precautions for obtaining and using chemical abortion drugs.” Read more here.
UNFPA LEADS EFFORTS TO SUPPRESS ‘ANTI-RIGHTS’ SOCIAL CONSERVATIVES, by
Iulia-Elena Cazan. “The UN population agency told governments it is committed to fight the ‘pushback’ to the sexual rights agenda from ‘anti-rights’ groups. Western governments pledged their support for the cause. …The labels ‘anti-rights’ and ‘pushback’ are often used to refer to pro-life and pro-traditional family groups at the UN and on the ground around the world. The concepts were first developed at the UN in the context of opposing the pro-life policies of the Trump administration. ADF International, the Heritage Foundation, Family Watch International, and C-Fam, publisher of the Friday Fax, are some of the organizations that have been called anti-rights in Western-funded initiatives.” Read more here.
THE LEFT’S CRUSADE AGAINST RELIGIOUS SCHOOLS HEATS UP, by Timothy P. Carney. “A theme of the next few years will be the persecution of Catholic schools, Jewish schools, and all other religious schools that blend even a trace of traditional morality with their faith. Democratic legislators, the legacy media, left-wing non-profits, and liberal prosecutors will attack, sue, defund, and ultimately try to quash all conservative religious schools that do not adopt their version of morality. …New York lawmakers recently proposed an ‘anti-discrimination’ bill, the Nonpublic Dignity for All Students Act. The bill would force private schools to embrace gender ideology — the new belief system positing that a boy becomes a girl by identifying as one and vice-versa.” Read more here.
LGBT ‘PRIDE MONTH’ IS NOT ABOUT CELEBRATING, IT’S ABOUT ASSERTING DOMINANCE OVER THE CULTURE, by Jonathon Van Maren. “It is June, which means that the LGBT heresy hunters are in full swing. Their favorite game is to plaster some public space with symbols of their hotly contested ideology and then scream ‘Victim!’ and demand a comprehensive crackdown when anyone dares to protest. It is not a ‘celebration of Pride’ – it is an assertion of ownership, a declaration of dominance over our public spaces. The most ludicrous stories are the breathless press reports of the enormous rainbow sidewalks marring our towns and cities getting… wait for it… tire marks on them.” Read more here.
EUROPE’S EXAMPLE ON GENDER TREATMENT, by The Deseret News Editorial Board. “When it comes to transgender medical treatments for children, parts of Europe have taken an enviable approach that relies on science rather than politics, advocacy or emotion. The results have been telling. In recent years, several European countries, including the more progressive nations of Scandinavia, have pulled back on allowing gender-related treatments for minors because some doctors have serious concerns about the risks. As U.S. News reported last year, these changes are being driven by healthcare policymakers and medical professionals, not by lawmakers. This has led to calmer and more rational discussions than what often takes place in the hyper-partisan United States.” Read more here.
‘DETRANS’ HELPS TRANSGENDER CULT SURVIVORS TELL HORRIFYING TRUTHS ALL MEDIA WORK TO HIDE, by Joy Pullmann. “If the Americans Mary Margaret Olohan writes about in Detrans weren’t victims of Democrats, their plight would be all over Hollywood, ‘60 Minutes,’ PBS, and all the rest. There’s more than enough in the stories of young Americans reverting transgender body modifications and personas to attract entire teams of investigative reporters and creatives for years. It’s at least as big as the Big Tobacco lawsuits, the abortion industry, the Oxycontin scandals, and child sex trafficking. This lack of curiosity in a deep and dramatic story says a lot about our culture, our institutions, our media, and our rulers.” Read more here.
THE CONSENSUS ON GENDER MEDICINE FOR KIDS IS CRUMBLING, by Michael Cook. “The hottest issue in bioethics at the moment is paediatric gender medicine. Is it ethical for doctors to help children affirm their chosen gender identity? Is it ethical for doctors to suppress puberty in gender dysphoric children? Is it ethical for doctors to sterilize young males with estrogen and females with testosterone so that they can physically mimic the opposite sex? Is it ethical for doctors to surgically remove the breasts of girls under 18? Gender-affirming doctors answer Yes, Yes, Yes, and Yes to these questions.” Read more here.
