Birthing persons?
(Originally published in World News Group) When Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers proposed changing the term “mother” to “inseminated person” in the state budget, many people rightly laughed at the absurdity of the terminology— with Elon Musk chiming in to say “Hi Mom, I mean...
A Pro-Child Response to President Trump’s IVF Executive Order
IVF has made a business of violating the rights of children. It circumvents, rather than heals, infertility. Infertility is heartbreaking for married couples who desperately want to welcome a baby into their family. These couples deserve compassion, but never at the...
Justice for Children Demands Gay Marriage Be Overturned
A thread from Katy Faust originally on X Everywhere gay marriage is legalized, children's rights to their biological parents are weakened or outright obliterated. No country has legalized same-sex marriage and strengthened children’s relationships with their mother...
How Legalizing Surrogacy Helps Activists ‘Queer Babies’
(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...
TBU Supports Texas’ Age-Verification Law in Battle at U.S. Supreme Court
Tomorrow the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on whether pornography websites should be required to verify users’ ages in order to protect children from this harmful content. Under the Texas law, if “adult entertainment” makes up more than 30% of a...
The cost of conservative hypocrisy
(Originally published in World News Group) One-man-one-woman marriage, pro-life convictions, the importance of mothers and fathers, and sex within marriage are mainstays of social conservatism, and for good reason. If we can't conserve the iron triad of man, woman,...
Oklahoma Bill Encourages Marriage With State Tax Credits For Hitched Parents
(Originally published in The Federalist) The United States has the world’s highest rate of kids being raised in single-parent homes. This is alarming, considering the benefits children gain when being raised by their married parents, including greater academic...
By Decriminalizing Paid Surrogacy, Michigan Is The Final State To Commercialize Babies
(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...
Protect children, not porn
(Originally published in WORLD magazine) I’ve told all four of my children once they were old enough to understand, “You may not be looking for porn, but porn is looking for you.” They need to have a basic explanation of what porn is and why it’s harmful. Like most...
The irreplaceable cornerstone of marriage
(Originally published in WORLD magazine) My daughter was married last month. Mothers fast-forward to this day when we find out we’re pregnant, on the day we give birth, when she plays dress up in our wedding gown, when shopping for prom, and, of course, when we see...
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