Birthing persons?

by Them Before Us | Mar 9, 2025 | The Latest

(Originally published in World News Group) When Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers proposed changing the term “mother” to “inseminated person” in the state budget, many people rightly laughed at the absurdity of the terminology— with Elon Musk chiming in to say “Hi Mom, I mean...

The cost of conservative hypocrisy

by Katy Faust | Feb 27, 2025 | EXPORT, The Latest

(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,...

A Pro-Child Response to President Trump’s IVF Executive Order

by Jennifer | Feb 19, 2025 | EXPORT, IVF, The Latest

IVF has made a business of violating the rights of children. It circumvents, rather than heals, infertility.  Infertility is heartbreaking for married couples who desperately want to welcome a baby into their family. These couples deserve compassion, but never at the...

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...

By Decriminalizing Paid Surrogacy, Michigan Is The Final State To Commercialize Babies

by Katie Breckenridge | Jan 20, 2025 | EXPORT, The Latest

(Originally published in The Federalist) The “Assisted Reproduction and Surrogacy Parentage Act,” which decriminalizes surrogate motherhood in the state of Michigan, is planned to take effect in March of this year. Michigan is the last state to decriminalize paid...

How Legalizing Surrogacy Helps Activists ‘Queer Babies’

by Katy Faust | Jan 16, 2025 | The Latest

(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...