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...
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...
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...
Disaster Surrogacy Cases Sanctioned by Washington State’s SB 6037
When people think about surrogacy, it's always from the adult's perspective- the infertile couple with no way to have children, or the gay couple who needs a "surrogate angel" to complete their family. But there are very real risks to children when we commercialize...
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...
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...
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...
Breeding puppies: Bad. Breeding babies: Good.
California will become the first state to ban pet stores from selling animals from commercial breeders. Governor Jerry Brown signed the law that animal rights advocates hope will limit the "needless suffering" of animals for sale in the state. The bill was passed on...
The Birth Certificate Battle- from “Right to Marry” to “Right to Parenthood”
This week, eight same-sex couples challenged Indiana's policy that only the biological mother and father can be listed on a child's birth certificate. They want their married partner listed as a parent on their child's foremost legal document. Their grounds for such...
Why ‘Swipe Right to Build-a-Baby’ Is So Wrong
Recently, the hosts of The View discussed a new phone app called Just a Baby which "helps you find a surrogate, partner, co-parent, sperm, or egg donor – or find someone that needs your help to have a baby.” Their reactions ranged from “this makes me crazy”...
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