by Katie Breckenridge | Jan 20, 2025 | The Latest
(Originally published in The Federalist) The “Assisted Reproduction and Surrogacy Parentage Act,” which decriminalizes surrogate motherhood in the state of Michigan, is planned to take effect in March of this year. Michigan is the last state to decriminalize paid...
by Katy Faust | Jan 16, 2025 | The Latest
(Originally published in The Federalist) In December, gay father Balázs Boross published “Queering babies: (Auto)ethnographic reflections from a gay parent through surrogacy” in the journal Psychoanalysis, Culture, and Society. The essay “explores how encounters with...
by Patience Griswold | Nov 14, 2024 | Surrogacy, The Latest
(Originally published in Public Discourse) It would be hard to come up with a more horrifying and heartbreaking headline than this: “I Caught Our Surrogate Drinking and Made Her Abort the Baby.” The article details Marty and Melinda Rangers’s experience with...
by Patience Griswold | Jun 18, 2024 | The Latest
(Originally published in The Federalist) On June 12, the Massachusetts House is expected to vote on a bill that would allow mothers to exchange their children for money—that is, engage in baby-selling—under the name of “parentage equality.” The “Parentage Equality”...
by Katy Faust | Apr 18, 2024 | The Latest |
(Originally published in Christianity Today) On April 8, the Vatican issued Dignitas Infinita, a 20-page document rejecting a variety of practices that violate human dignity. Unsurprisingly, these included human trafficking, violence against women, abortion,...