by Katy Faust | Apr 8, 2024 | #ANDnotOR, #ANDnotORlearn, The Latest
(Originally published in Public Discourse) The first time I walked into a Chinese orphanage, I picked up a little girl and held her close. At the time, I was working for a Chinese adoption agency, and while I was not yet a mother, I instinctively started rocking and...
by Them Before Us | Mar 28, 2024 | #ANDnotOR, #ANDnotORlearn, Justice, The Latest
The deceptively named “Michigan Family Protection Act”—a package of bills legalizing commercial surrogacy and allowing intent-based parenting—passed the Michigan legislature this week and is making its way to Governor Whitmer’s desk. Here is what Them Before Us...
by Them Before Us | Mar 28, 2024 | Justice, The Latest
Dear Chair Becker-Finn and Members, My name is Katy Faust, I am the founder and President of Them Before Us—a nonprofit committed to defending children’s rights to their mothers and fathers. I am writing in opposition HF 3567 because of the significant and lasting...
by Katie Breckenridge | Dec 7, 2023 | The Latest
(Originally published in The Federalist) The Michigan House passed the Assisted Reproduction and Surrogacy Parentage Act, HBs 5207-5215, on Nov. 9, 2023. These bills seek to legalize surrogacy, which is still a misdemeanor in Michigan, and establish parentage rights...
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...
