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...
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...
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 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...
Illusions of Control and the Ableism of Big Fertility
(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...
What If Companies Chose to Be Pro-Child?
Originally posted in The Washington Stand July 29, 2024 | Written by Patience Griswold (now Patience Sunne) First Tractor Supply Co., then John Deere, now Harley-Davidson. Corporate wokeness is being exposed in companies from the heartland, and as customers speak out,...
Tim Walz’s Position On IVF Shows How Extreme He Is
(Originally published in The Federalist) At this year’s Human Rights Campaign Dinner, Democrat vice presidential nominee Tim Walz spoke of his and Vice President Kamala Harris’ plan to bring “decency back” to how the country does things. Their plan to bring decency...
Science Has Discovered Natural Fertility Enhancers That Work Far Better Than IVF
(Originally published in The Federalist) Although Democrat vice presidential nominee Gov. Tim Walz repeatedly claimed he and his wife used In Vitro Fertilization to create children, it turns out they used another fertility procedure that doesn’t involve destroying or...
Why protecting children from pornography is so important
(Originally published in Live Action) Two members of the New Jersey General Assembly, Jay Webber and Michael Inganamort, have recently sponsored Bill A4146 and Bill A3819 in their efforts to pass stricter regulation of sexual material on the internet. Bill A4146...
Amie’s story | “I feel inadequate, anxious, unable to attach to people, fearful of being abandoned.”
My family structure seems ideal from the outside, 2 biological married parents, heterosexual. Initially struggling to conceive. Back in the early 80’s there was no IVF on demand, but they tried all the medical options. They tried this for 6 years until they were...
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