Dear Legislative Allies, This is How Surrogacy Harms Children
Surrogacy Harms Children Arguments for legalized surrogacy often focus on “protection” of surrogates and intended parents. Effective arguments against surrogacy will always focus on protecting children. While it’s true that surrogacy exploits women and is thus...
IVF Mix-Up Reveals Harm of Sperm/Egg Donation
(Image Source: Associated Press) The Cardinales of Los Angeles are suing California Center for Reproductive Health after discovering the fertility clinic mixed up their embryos with those of another couple, resulting in the two women giving birth to the other’s baby....
That’s not a “queer tax,” that’s biology
In September 2020, a same-sex couple was denied coverage for Intrauterine Insemination and In-Vitro Fertilization treatments because they did not meet Aetna’s definition of infertility. Aetna defines infertility coverable by insurance as not becoming pregnant after...
The sacrificing of “excess” children to fulfill adult desires
The In-Vitro Fertilization process is rife with ethical issues, some of which include the creation and eventual discarding of excess embryos, frozen embryonic limbo, the possibility of perishing during the thawing process, and the lucky few who will be given a shot at...
The Problem with Polygenic IVF Screening
(Reposted with permission from the Society of St. Sebastian) (Image Source: WikiMedia Commons) Researchers at the Feinstein Institutes for medical research were recently granted $2.9 million to screen embryos created through in-vitro fertilization for genetic...
Don’t celebrate the Buttigieg twins’ mother-loss
(Originally published on LifeSite News) Pete Buttigieg’s weekend announcement that he and “husband” Chasten are “becoming parents” of twins had the Twitterverse abuzz. Odd phrasing, that “becoming parents” verbiage. More accurately, two men, who are biologically...
When we say GLOBAL movement, that’s exactly what we mean.
There's a lot of children's rights happenings stateside these days. A chat with Allie Beth Stuckey, massive expansion of our Facebook page after a child-centric examination of what Pete Buttigieg's twins lost, our collaborative video series with the Colson Center, our...
Israel High Court enacts “continuous, grievous human rights violations” for children
(Image Source: Inclusive Surrogacy) On July 11, 2021, Israel’s Supreme Court ruled to allow same-sex couples and single men access to surrogacy, a process which previously was open only to heterosexual couples and single women. This ruling was made on the grounds that...
Vermont bill proposes a denial of the fundamental rights of children
In February, 2019, Vermont passed H.57 as part of their efforts to protect against the attack on “reproductive rights” taking place across the country. This bill secures the “right” to an abortion all the way up to the ninth month of pregnancy, with no limitations....
Shocking New York Times Article Illuminates That In Vitro Fertilization Means Babies Built To Order
(Originally published at The Federalist) York Times contributor Alicia Lombardini just chronicled her obsession with becoming a single mother through in vitro fertilization (IVF) with a stranger’s sperm. The June 15 autobiographical article, titled “I did IVF without...
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