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...
by Them Before Us | Nov 16, 2023 | 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.”](https://thembeforeus.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Screenshot_20231019_154123_YouTube2.jpg)
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...
by Katy Faust | Dec 6, 2021 | 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...
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...
