New Zealand’s “Improving Arrangements for Surrogacy Bill” violates children’s rights

by Katie Breckenridge | Nov 13, 2021 | EXPORT, Justice

Re: Improving Arrangements for Surrogacy Bill 72-1 Dear members, My name is Katie Breckenridge and I am the External Affairs Liaison for the children’s rights organization Them Before Us. The “Improving Arrangements for Surrogacy Bill” makes surrogacy more...

IVF Mix-Up Reveals Harm of Sperm/Egg Donation

by Katie Breckenridge | Nov 12, 2021 | EXPORT, The Latest

(Image Source: Associated Press) The Cardinales of Los Angeles are suing California Center for Reproductive Health after discovering the fertility clinic mixed up their embryos with those of another couple, resulting in the two women giving birth to the other’s baby....

That’s not a “queer tax,” that’s biology

by Katie Breckenridge | Sep 16, 2021 | EXPORT, The Latest

In September 2020, a same-sex couple was denied coverage for Intrauterine Insemination and In-Vitro Fertilization treatments because they did not meet Aetna’s definition of infertility. Aetna defines infertility coverable by insurance as not becoming pregnant after...

The Problem with Polygenic IVF Screening

by Katie Breckenridge | Sep 10, 2021 | EXPORT, The Latest

(Reposted with permission from the Society of St. Sebastian) (Image Source: WikiMedia Commons)   Researchers at the Feinstein Institutes for medical research were recently granted $2.9 million to screen embryos created through in-vitro fertilization for genetic...

Don’t celebrate the Buttigieg twins’ mother-loss

by Katy Faust | Sep 8, 2021 | EXPORT, The Latest

(Originally published on LifeSite News) Pete Buttigieg’s weekend announcement that he and “husband” Chasten are “becoming parents” of twins had the Twitterverse abuzz. Odd phrasing, that “becoming parents” verbiage. More accurately, two men, who are biologically...

When we say GLOBAL movement, that’s exactly what we mean.

by Them Before Us | Sep 7, 2021 | EXPORT, Foundations, The Latest

There’s a lot of children’s rights happenings stateside these days. A chat with Allie Beth Stuckey, massive expansion of our Facebook page after a child-centric examination of what Pete Buttigieg’s twins lost, our collaborative video series with the...