What Louisiana Pro-Life Leaders Get Wrong About “Protecting IVF”

by Patience Sunne | May 14, 2025 | The Latest

In the year since the Alabama Supreme Court handed down a decision that recognized IVF-created embryos as persons worthy of protection and justice, politicians in red and blue states alike have clamored to “protect IVF.” In the most recent instance of...

What Republican Legislators Get Wrong about ‘Right to IVF’ Bills

by Patience Sunne | Apr 1, 2025 | The Latest

(Originally published in The Washington Stand) A seemingly innocuous in vitro fertilization approach that has been embraced by conservative lawmakers in multiple states is to propose bills that clarify that the “right” to IVF is protected in state law. Unlike more...

Oklahoma Bill Encourages Marriage With State Tax Credits For Hitched Parents

by Patience Sunne | Feb 5, 2025 | EXPORT, The Latest

(Originally published in The Federalist) The United States has the world’s highest rate of kids being raised in single-parent homes. This is alarming, considering the benefits children gain when being raised by their married parents, including greater academic...

Illusions of Control and the Ableism of Big Fertility

by Patience Sunne | Nov 14, 2024 | Surrogacy, The Latest

(Originally published in Public Discourse) It would be hard to come up with a more horrifying and heartbreaking headline than this: “I Caught Our Surrogate Drinking and Made Her Abort the Baby.” The article details Marty and Melinda Rangers’s experience with...

Massachusetts Bill Would Allow Women To Sell Their Unborn Children

by Patience Sunne | Jun 18, 2024 | EXPORT, The Latest

(Originally published in The Federalist) On June 12, the Massachusetts House is expected to vote on a bill that would allow mothers to exchange their children for money—that is, engage in baby-selling—under the name of “parentage equality.” The “Parentage Equality”...