Johanna’s story | “I still recognize that what happened to me was a trauma, a very serious one which will forever impact my life and relations to other people.”

by Them Before Us | Mar 29, 2024 | Stories

My name is Johanna, I am now 42 years old. I am an adoptee from Sweden (now living in Denmark). I grew up in a middle-class home in a house with my adoptive parents (husband and wife) and with a little sister who is a biological child to our parents. When I got...

Selena’s story | “I could not help thinking that this sounds like a business.”

by Them Before Us | Nov 16, 2023 | EXPORT, Stories

While working as a doctor, [I’ve seen] that egg/sperm donation or surrogacy isn’t questioned in terms of the impact that it may have on the child. I would say in fact, that it is celebrated. Celebrated in the sense that people are not allowing themselves...

Olivia’s story | “We’re trading with humans, we’re selling humans, we’re buying uteruses. [Surrogacy] should be abolished worldwide.”

by Katie Breckenridge | Oct 19, 2023 | Stories

Olivia Auriol was born via traditional surrogacy in Louisville, Kentucky, and grew up between France and the United States. She recently shared her story in a Webinar with Abolition GPA about her experiences growing up as a child of surrogacy. While Olivia’s parents...

No, We Shouldn’t Kill Babies Because Adoption Is Traumatic

by Katy Faust | Dec 6, 2021 | EXPORT, The Latest

(Originally published in The Federalist) Pro-life Christians understand the intrinsic relationship between abortion and adoption; we are twice as likely as the general population to have adopted children, and I often see pro-lifers offer to adopt unwanted babies in my...

You Can’t Fix Tough Adoptions With ‘Re-Homing,’ Only Faithfulness

by Katy Faust | Jun 3, 2020 | The Latest

(Originally published at The Federalist) Myka Stauffer of YouTube fame has “re-homed” her autistic, adopted Chinese child, Huxley. Stauffer became widely known in large part due to the video documentation of her adoption journey. Huxley’s emotional gotcha-day video...