Christians need to say no to surrogacy
(Originally published in World News Group) Recently, a picture of two men heading home from Canada to Europe with their surrogate-delivered child garnered a great deal of attention on Twitter. Some objected to the fact that the baby would have no mother, others by the...
Testifying Against Big Fertility in Washington State
HB 1151 update: This bill stalled in the Senate after being assigned to the House Rules Committee for review on April 23, 2023. We must continue to put pressure on legislators to not allow this bill to re-surface. Them Before Us presented the following...
30 Years After Being Frozen As Embryos, Newborn Twins Set World Record
(Originally published in The Federalist) Rachel and Philip Ridgeway sought to make the best of a situation formed through brokenness by adopting embryos who had been frozen for almost 30 years. Their love resulted in breaking a world record late last year when the...
Them Before Us – 2022 Accomplishments
2022 was a major year for Them Before Us. Here are just a few highlights. Our Global Impact: The Them Before Us message spread all over the globe in 2022. Them Before Us got to play a part in Albania being "victorious over the massive family - redefinition machine" by...
Dr. Paul Sullins refutes common same-sex parenting studies
There have been several studies done in an attempt to show “no difference” in child outcomes between same-sex and opposite-sex parenting. Studies commonly cited in support of same-sex parenting are Reczek’s, “Family Structure and Child Health; Does the Sex Composition...
IVF & Abortion Trigger Bans: The Reality That Not All Prenatal Life Is Protected
(Originally published in The Society of St. Sebastian) The question of whether the disposal of embryos created through the In Vitro Fertilization process violated Tennessee’s “Human Life Protection Act,”[I] an act which criminalizes abortion as a Class C felony in all...
Democrats’ ‘Respect for Marriage Act’ Would Hurt Children
(Originally published in The Daily Signal) Control of the U.S. Senate has been decided and now we hear that Senate Democrats have scheduled a vote Wednesday on the misnamed Respect for Marriage Act, in hopes of legislatively cementing the mother- and father-loss that...
No, Manufacturing Children In A Petri Dish Isn’t A Reproductive Right
(Originally published in The Federalist) Illinois state Rep. Margaret Croke recently introduced House Bill 5779, a bill to legally secure a right “to make autonomous decisions about one’s own reproductive health, including the fundamental right to use or refuse...
Test and discard your designer baby cheaper and faster
The In Vitro Fertilization process has been responsible for the creation and disposal of millions of human beings. Combining the numbers of embryonic persons who are disposed of, do not survive the thawing process, or are donated to research, IVF disposes of millions...
Government shouldn’t subsidize intentional motherlessness and fatherlessness
(Originally published in the Washington Examiner) It’s been seven years since the Supreme Court made gay marriage the law of the land. Those of us who raised objections to this decision and argued that redefining marriage would redefine family and encourage...
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