by Katy Faust | Nov 1, 2023 | The Latest
(Originally published in The European Conservative) Dear PM Meloni, You’re right about surrogacy. You’re right about birth certificates. And you’re right about defending the traditional family. How do I know you’re right? Because I’ve been collecting the stories of...
by Them Before Us | Oct 17, 2023 | Stories
I was a donor-conceived (IVF) child and a twin born in 1995. My mother desperately wanted to have children but with no prospect of a traditional family. She lived in central California in the 90’s and was near a larger IVF facility. She proceeded to try multiple...
by Them Before Us | Oct 17, 2023 | The Latest
(Originally published in The American Conservative) When Katy Faust spoke at the third National Conservative conference in Florida in 2022, her speech had a simple refrain: “This is a child.” Applying the Vince Lombardi Green Bay Packers story (“Gentlemen, this is a...
by Them Before Us | Sep 26, 2023 | Stories
(Originally published on MadMommaBear Blog) From a Guest Author, a letter shared from a son to an absent father about the experience of losing a father: Hello, I am fine. Sorry I haven’t reached out to you in a while. I’m doing very well in school; I have a 4.0 GPA....
by Katy Faust | Jun 14, 2023 | The Latest
(Originally published in The Federalist) Marriage, once the most child-friendly institution in the world, has now been redefined in the name of equality. It was argued same-sex couples just wanted to visit one another in the hospital, have access to the same...