Colorado House Bill 22-1153, the mis-named Family Affirmation Act, seeks to make parentage easier for adults employing assisted reproductive technologies. But in the process, it violates the universally-acknowledged children’s right to be known and loved by both...
South Dakota has been a front in the battle for surrogacy for the last few years. The fertility industry has made several attempts to legalize commercial surrogacy in this pro-business state filled with relatively affordable wombs for rent. Last month, the latest...
Them Before Us founder Katy Faust recently testified against Senate Bill 137 in the South Dakota Senate, which aims to establish gestational surrogacy arrangements and agreements. According to the bill’s proponents, surrogacy has been practiced in South Dakota for...
Yesterday, a small country in Europe was victorious over the massive family-redefinition machine. Albania has been battling attempts to redefine their traditional family code. Backed by well-monied international interests, LGBT activists “demanded that the right of...
To the honorable members of the Albania Parliament, Them Before Us defends children’s rights in matters of marriage and family. We are writing at the request of the Albanian Family Coalition concerning proposed changes to your family code granting single and...
Violating Children’s Right to Life Only 7% of lab-created children (IVF is essential to surrogacy) will be born alive. Most will perish in forgotten freezers, won’t survive "thawing," fail to implant, be discarded for being non viable/the wrong sex, be aborted...
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...
Earlier this year, allies in Lithuania asked Them Before Us for help pushing back against the well-monied forces working to redefine the family. We strongly encouraged them to emphasize the rights of children in their efforts to preserve the natural family. We...
Them Before Us exists to protect a child’s right to be known and loved by his or her mother and father. Therefore, we oppose legislation that encourages third party reproduction, a practice which severs a child’s connection with one or both biological parents....
Them Before Us advocates for a child’s rights to her mother and father. Thus we oppose no-fault divorce, an Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE), which denies children the daily contact with both parents that they need, crave and benefit from. This ACE results in...
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