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 Katie Breckenridge | Sep 28, 2023 | The Latest
In May 2023, with the approval of the United Kingdom’s Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, the first UK baby was born using a “three-parent embryo” technique, better known as mitochondrial replacement therapy (MRT). The process, which has been hailed as a...
by Katy Faust | Jul 17, 2023 | The Latest
(Originally published in The Washington Examiner) Eight years ago this week, five Supreme Court justices redefined marriage for the entire country in the name of “equality.” Remember those ubiquitous blue and yellow “=” bumper stickers? Those hesitant to abandon the...
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...