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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