Dear Minnesota, Surrogacy Commodifies Kids
Dear Members, My name is Katy Faust. I am founder and director of the children’s rights organization Them Before Us, committed to defending children's rights in family structure. We represent the party most impacted by HF 1140 – the children. While surrogacy harms...
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Dear NY, Commercial Surrogacy is Bad for Kids
Re: S.2071 Child - Parent Security Act Dear Member of Assembly, My name is Katy Faust. I am founder and director of the children’s rights organization Them Before Us. We represent the party most impacted by S.2071 - the children. The ill-named "Child-Parent Security...
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Virginia’s HB1979 Harms Children
February 8, 2019 Re: HB1979 on Assisted Conception; Amends Statute to Provide Gender-Neutral Terminology, etc. Honorable Senators, My name is Katy Faust and I am the founder of the children’s rights organization, Them Before Us. We represent the party that you haven’t...
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Opposition to New York’s Senate Bill Legalizing Surrogacy
Dear New York Senator/Assemblyman, Them Before Us exists to defend a child’s fundamental right to their mother and father. This right grants children not only the two people who are statistically the most likely to be connected to, protective of, and invested in them...
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Them Before Us Founder Testifies Against Uniform Parentage Act
Members of the law and justice committee,* Thank you for the opportunity to be here. My name is Katy Faust and I’m the founder of the children’s rights organization Them Before Us. I am the former Assistant Director of Chinese Children Adoption International, the...
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Donor Conceived People Oppose Washington State’s Uniform Parentage Act (SB 6037)
SB 6037 normalizes the destruction of the biological parent/child relationship. That is a violation of the universally-acknowledged children’s right to be known and loved, whenever possible, by both genetic parents. A biological relationship with parents matters to...
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