(Originally published in World News Group) A non-binding resolution in Idaho is challenging Obergefell v. Hodges, the Supreme Court’s 2015 gay marriage ruling. Shaky judicial grounds aside, Idaho argues marriage law is a matter of states’ rights—SCOTUS lacks the...
Katy Faust
The cost of conservative hypocrisy
(Originally published in World News Group) One-man-one-woman marriage, pro-life convictions, the importance of mothers and fathers, and sex within marriage are mainstays of social conservatism, and for good reason. If we can't conserve the iron triad of man, woman,...
How Legalizing Surrogacy Helps Activists ‘Queer Babies’
(Originally published in The Federalist) In December, gay father Balázs Boross published “Queering babies: (Auto)ethnographic reflections from a gay parent through surrogacy” in the journal Psychoanalysis, Culture, and Society. The essay “explores how encounters with...
Protect children, not porn
(Originally published in WORLD magazine) I’ve told all four of my children once they were old enough to understand, “You may not be looking for porn, but porn is looking for you.” They need to have a basic explanation of what porn is and why it’s harmful. Like most...
The irreplaceable cornerstone of marriage
(Originally published in WORLD magazine) My daughter was married last month. Mothers fast-forward to this day when we find out we’re pregnant, on the day we give birth, when she plays dress up in our wedding gown, when shopping for prom, and, of course, when we see...
Pastor Twists Himself In Knots To Claim Being Pro-IVF Is Pro-Life
(Originally published in The Federalist) Amid an ongoing national conversation around IVF after Alabama’s Supreme Court ruling, attempts by both Republicans and Democrats to “protect IVF,” and Tim Walz’s Stolen Vitro controversy, the Dallas Morning News published,...
If You’re Pro-Life And Pro-Family, You Can’t Be Pro-IVF
(Originally published in The Federalist) On Monday, Sens. Ted Cruz and Katie Britt unveiled their IVF Protection Act to ensure “IVF is fully protected at the federal level.” The bill would make states “ineligible to receive Medicaid funding if they have enacted an...
Surrogacy Makes More Babies. Pro-Lifers Should Still Oppose It.
(Originally published in Christianity Today) On April 8, the Vatican issued Dignitas Infinita, a 20-page document rejecting a variety of practices that violate human dignity. Unsurprisingly, these included human trafficking, violence against women, abortion,...
A Children’s Rights Perspective on Embryo Adoption
Originally published in The Natural Family, June 1, 2020 by Katy Faust As a children’s rights advocate, I defend children’s universally-recognized right to life and right to their mother and father.[1] That means while I can (and do) sympathize with adults’ very...
Experts Combat Human Rights Violations At Global Anti-Surrogacy Conference
(Originally published at The Federalist) When Catholics, Protestants, Feminists, and Marxists all agree on something, you know it’s bad.” Those were the sentiments of Swedish author Kajsa Ekis Ekman, who appeared on a panel of journalists at the second annual...









