Testifying Against Surrogacy in South Dakota

by Katie Breckenridge | Mar 7, 2022 | Around the World, EXPORT, Justice, 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...

Children’s Rights Win in Albania!

by Katy Faust | Mar 2, 2022 | Albania, Around the World, EXPORT, Justice

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...

Letter to Albanian Parliament

by Katy Faust | Jan 19, 2022 | Albania, Around the World, EXPORT, Justice

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...

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...

Illinois, don’t force insurance companies to fund child commodifying practices

by Katie Breckenridge | May 5, 2021 | EXPORT, Justice

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....

Oppose No-Fault Divorce, Support Texas HB 3188

by Katy Faust | Apr 26, 2021 | EXPORT, Justice

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...