Letter to Czech Minister Vít Rakušan
Dear Mr. Minister Vít Rakušan, My name is Katy Faust and I am the President of Them Before Us. We represent the children who will be harmed if you allow same-sex couples to be listed on a child’s birth certificate. Millie Fontana was raised by two mothers. When she...
Letter to European Commission on Certificate of Parenthood legislation
Dear Sir or Madam, My name is Katy Faust. I am President of Them Before Us, a global children's rights nonprofit. I write regarding the proposed European Certificate of Parenthood/Regulation on Cross-Border Parenthood on behalf of the children whose rights will be...
Testifying Against Big Fertility in Washington State
HB 1151 update: This bill stalled in the Senate after being assigned to the House Rules Committee for review on April 23, 2023. We must continue to put pressure on legislators to not allow this bill to re-surface. Them Before Us presented the following...
Them Before Us Files an Amicus Brief Asking the Supreme Court to Protect Children from Misuse of CPS
The child welfare system exists to protect children and strengthen families — two goals that go hand in hand. When that system is misused, children suffer. That’s why Them Before Us has filed a brief asking the Supreme Court to protect the rights of children.
Colorado’s child commodifying “Family Affirmation Act” passes in the House
Colorado House Bill 22-1153, the mis-named Family Affirmation Act, seeks to make parentage easier for adults employing assisted reproductive technologies. But in the process, it violates the universally-acknowledged children’s right to be known and loved by both...
Children’s Rights Win in South Dakota!
South Dakota has been a front in the battle for surrogacy for the last few years. The fertility industry has made several attempts to legalize commercial surrogacy in this pro-business state filled with relatively affordable wombs for rent. Last month, the latest...
Testifying Against Surrogacy in South Dakota
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!
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
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...
South Dakota Surrogacy Fact Sheet
Violating Children’s Right to Life Only 7% of lab-created children (IVF is essential to surrogacy) will be born alive. Most will perish in forgotten freezers, won’t survive "thawing," fail to implant, be discarded for being non viable/the wrong sex, be aborted...
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