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...
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...
by Them Before Us | Jun 27, 2024 | Stories, The Latest
My family structure seems ideal from the outside, 2 biological married parents, heterosexual. Initially struggling to conceive. Back in the early 80’s there was no IVF on demand, but they tried all the medical options. They tried this for 6 years until they were...
by Katy Faust | Apr 11, 2024 | #ANDnotOR, #ANDnotORlearn, Foundations, The Latest
Originally published in The Natural Family, June 1, 2020 by Katy Faust As a children’s rights advocate, I defend children’s universally-recognized right to life and right to their mother and father.[1] That means while I can (and do) sympathize with adults’ very...
by Katy Faust | Apr 8, 2024 | #ANDnotOR, #ANDnotORlearn, The Latest
(Originally published in Public Discourse) The first time I walked into a Chinese orphanage, I picked up a little girl and held her close. At the time, I was working for a Chinese adoption agency, and while I was not yet a mother, I instinctively started rocking and...
by Katie Breckenridge | Mar 1, 2024 | #ANDnotOR, #ANDnotORlearn, The Latest
(Originally published in The Federalist) In the name of “equality,” the University of Sussex Hospitals National Health Service (NHS) Trust has stated that pharmacologically induced breast milk produced by men is comparable to milk produced by females. The NHS trust...