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Children’s Rights Win in South Dakota!

Children’s Rights Win in South Dakota!

by Katy Faust | Mar 7, 2022 | Justice, The Latest | 3 comments

South Dakota has been a front in the battle for surrogacy for the last few years. The fertility industry has made several attempts to legalize commercial surrogacy in this pro-business state filled with relatively affordable wombs for rent. Last month, the latest...
Testifying Against Surrogacy in South Dakota

Testifying Against Surrogacy in South Dakota

by Katie Breckenridge | Mar 7, 2022 | Around the World, Justice, The Latest

Them Before Us founder Katy Faust recently testified against Senate Bill 137 in the South Dakota Senate, which aims to establish gestational surrogacy arrangements and agreements. According to the bill’s proponents, surrogacy has been practiced in South Dakota for...
Katy Faust with Dale Bartscher of South Dakota Right to Life

Katy Faust with Dale Bartscher of South Dakota Right to Life

by Jennifer | Jan 25, 2022 | Around the World, South Dakota, The Latest

Katy Faust spoke with Dale Bartscher, the director of South Dakota Right to Life about how our understanding of the ethics of surrogacy align well with those in the pro-life movement. www.SDrighttolife.org  
South Dakota Surrogacy Fact Sheet

South Dakota Surrogacy Fact Sheet

by Them Before Us | Jan 10, 2022 | Around the World, Justice, South Dakota | 5 comments

Violating Children’s Right to Life Only 7% of lab-created children (IVF is essential to surrogacy) will be born alive. Most will perish in forgotten freezers, won’t survive “thawing,” fail to implant, be discarded for being non viable/the wrong sex, be...
Dear South Dakota, Babies Aren’t Commodities

Dear South Dakota, Babies Aren’t Commodities

by Katy Faust | Jan 29, 2020 | Around the World, Justice, South Dakota | 3 comments

IN SUPPORT OF HB 1096 Dear Members of the House Judiciary Committee;  My name is Katy Faust. I am the founder and director of the children’s rights organization Them Before Us. We represent the party who is most impacted by HB 1096: the children. Here are four ways...

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