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Introducing our new
#ThemBeforeUs
book, Pro-Child Politics: Why Every Cultural, Economic, and National Issue Is a Matter of Justice for Children
Pre-order today!
#ProChildPolitics
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How many moms has Lucy lost? The mom whose DNA sue carries? The mom whose voice she heard and who she smelled for 9 months? And the mom who won't be there to cuddle her, walk her through puberty, or exemplify womanhood. Tragedy. 😪
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Abhorrent. When will we have enough and ban these practices?
Transgender man lies in a hospital bed as his newborn baby is handed to him after he paid a surrogate to have a baby for him.
Do you agree or disagree with surrogacy?
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Every child has a right to his or her mother AND father. Those two people give their children what they're made for.
#ANDnotOR
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Unrelated (biologically) men are most likely to hurt/abuse children. That's the DATA people.
#ThemBeforeUs
These men have recently become fathers, in their fifties.
They used a donated embryo; meaning the baby has no genetic connection to either of them
#stopsurrogacynow
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You are human from conception.
All humans have inherent rights and values.
Being human and being a person are synonymous.
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She's just body parts and the child is a commodity.
A TikTok influencer shares photos from her “maternity” shoot, blocking out the surrogate mother’s face and posing with her belly.
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Children are not a commodity. They do not exist for the fulfillment of adults.
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Where would you get a child from?
That's the point.
@Advo_Katy
@Elmazzzzzz
@cpnys
@nysenategop
@SenatorBorrello
@lawler4ny
@marcmolinaro
Just to be clear, you think my marriage is a threat to child protection?
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Nailed it.
"We need to turn around the narrative that work outside the home is more important than motherhood."
@EricaKomisarCSW
delivering a keynote speech on the importance of raising healthy, happy, resilient children as part of a strong social fabric.
#ARC2023
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But which adults are in the best position to take care of children?
The answer from decades of research is clear: a man and a woman cooperating to raise their children together.
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It's easier to complain and demand the government throw more money at problems instead of adults changing their behavior.
Mom and dad staying married and raising their children solves MANY cultural problems.
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Third party reproduction uses eugenics processes to cull "undesirable" traits and give customers a quality product. Children shouldn't be created and treated THIS way.
#ThemBeforeUs
@Advo_Katy
#TimPool
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Aren't you grateful for all the amazing benefits some of the largest corporations in country offer their employees? Companies should help adults get everything that they want, right?
Watch Colette's story at
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Western culture pretends to care about women and feminism and mothers. But then it pretends being a woman is something men can do better and that a child won't even care if taken from the only woman she's ever known and raised by two men.
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"Therefore, Panama now legally recognizes marriage exclusively between a man and a woman."
A win for the rights of children.
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Men and women are different. Men and women are important. Men and women complement each other in everything from business to writing to parenting.
Every child deserves relationship with both mom + dad.
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Yes, Surrogacy is Wrong Even When Straight Couples Do It.
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Adult-centric thinking has culturally continued at a rapid pace and children pay the greatest price.
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Men can be great fathers, a man just can't be a mother. Women can be incredible mothers, but a woman cannot father a child. This isn't controversial, it's not ANTI-anything. It's science and adults need to line up behind what is right for kids.
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Because it is. Buying and selling children is wrong.
#ThemBeforeUs
EXCLUSIVE Katherine Deves told gay politician Pete Buttigeg seeking surrogacy was a “human rights violation” via
@newscomauHQ
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Woman with no biological connection to newborn regretting everything after baby is born.
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Changing the definition of marriage didn't make same-sex marriages legitimate in the eyes of a child. A child has one mother and one father, and regardless of what adults demand on the birth certificate or who they demand government recognition from.
#Thembeforeus
@Advo_Katy
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How do you fight back against cultural lies that seem overwhelming? Saturate your kids with truth and beauty.
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Marriage matters. It's the one institution designed to link a man and woman to the children they produce.
Some married couples don't have kids. But every child has a mom and dad.
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Many adults pursue third-party reproduction because it's so important to them to have a child that is biologically connected. But then they make choices so the child loses his/her own biological connections.
It's unfair and a violation of the child's rights.
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Sent to us from a fellow
#ThemBeforeUs
advocate's facebook group. A woman who procured a child to intentionally raise fatherless and now the child is aware:
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"“I grew up surrounded by women who said they didn’t need or want a man. Yet, as a little girl, I so desperately wanted a daddy. It is a strange and confusing thing to walk around with this deep-down unquenchable ache for a father.."
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"Many of us warned that making husbands and wives optional in marriage would result in mothers and fathers becoming optional in parenthood. The past seven years have validated those concerns."
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@Advo_Katy
"While it may fulfill the desires of adults, surrogacy is always harmful to children."
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Marriage was designed perfectly to give a child the daily maternal & paternal love they crave and need for flourishing. Restore and protect the institution of marriage for the sake of children.
#ThemBeforeUs
@Advo_Katy
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Children have the right to life, an intact body, to innocence, and to the mother and father they came from.
#ThemBeforeUs
@Advo_Katy
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"The claim that there are no differences in outcomes for children raised by same sex parents has been repeated to such a degree it has become accepted fact.." but were incredibly flawed and misleading.
p 120 in the
#TBUbook
, chapter "Same Sex Parents".
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@TheHorusian
@KCMiller1225
True, people will always prey on women and children. But that's not a reason to do nothing about it.
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Keep kids off the streets. A strong family unit keeps families and kids out of poverty.
Our
#ThemBeforeUs
#ChildrensRightsFastFacts
series.
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Do gay couples have a right to adopt a child? No.
Not because of the identity of the couple but because NO ONE has a right to adopt a child.
The RIGHT to adoption belongs to the child, because the child is the focus and client of adoption.
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Less likely to use drugs, be physically or sexually abused, and drop out of school. Research reveals that the place where kids are most likely to be “safe and loved” is in the home of their married mother and father. For children, that’s the the true “safe-space”.
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Sex is the only god that's acceptable to worship in the modern western world. And kids pay the biggest price for boundary-less adult fulfillment.
CC
@Advo_Katy
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Try it. Pull up a story about "mom's boyfriend"... consider surrogacy from the POV of the child passed from a rented womb to a buyer...think of the child of the dad who divorces and leaves to "find himself".
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Who thinks
@Advo_Katy
needs to chat with
@megynkelly
about Big Fertility and children's rights?
#ThemBeforeUs
.
@megynkelly
opens up about her own fertility journey amid the fallout from the Alabama IVF ruling
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Protecting marriage and family protects neighborhoods, towns, cities, states, and countries. Protecting the rights of children makes civilizations flourish.
Join us in reaching our
#ANDnotOR
goal this week!
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Simply by existing, we know every living human has a mother and a father that produced him or her. Being raised with those two people, married in your home, is best for children.
#ThemBeforeUs
#KatyFaustQuotes
@katyfaustofficial
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Unjust laws don't change what is right and it won't change the natural rights of children.
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It's really this simple: google "fatherlessness". See how badly losing a father has impacted society, particularly men. You see crime, incarceration, childhood obesity, safety from physical and sexual abuse is ALL connected to losing your dad.
#socialscience
#followthescience
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"A child’s legal right to their parents may vary, the natural right children have to both their mother and father is indisputable."
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Building the coalition to defend the rights of children all over the globe!
#ThemBeforeUs
#CzechRepublic
Spending the week in
#CzechRepublic
talking
#childrensrights
. Thanks to
@Aliprorodinu
for making these conversations possible.
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If you're following the tragic Younger story there's an element you might not have considered:
Why It’s Probably Not A Coincidence That The Mother Transing Her 7-Year-Old Isn’t Biologically Related
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The people who want nuclear family the most: children.
#ItsScience
@JonMDexter
@DBeasleyHarling
@jenniehartline
@ThemBeforeUs
It never fails to amaze me how nuclear family obssessed, straight Christian's cling to the natural order of procreation and child rearing, forgetting that humans have long since pushed outside of those boundaries since complex society started. Talk about reductive stupidity.
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"I have a lot of experience with divorce, far too much to ask of any one person, in my opinion. My parents divorced when I was three and I went on to subsequent marriages, divorces, different children, a lot of back and forth between 'two homes', and a lot of chaos.
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Adoption can be ethical when you remember the child involved is the client. The child's rights and wellbeing are the primary concern, NOT the adults who want a child.
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Lots of adults have children that are not biologically theirs. The difference is that adults who sacrifice FOR kids who have suffered loss by adoption
are much different
than ones who intentionally cause kids loss for adult benefit.
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Interesting that the subtitle points out Coopers loss of his dad, mom, and brother... Cooper's mom married four times, he had half siblings, his brother committed suicide in 20s. Lots of grief and loss in part because of the adult choices around him.
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It's one thing to affirm and encourage adults who step into the gap for kids who have lost something. But a moral and just society doesn't gaslight kids or pretend that the non-ideal is just cultural *progression*.
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Our statement on the Alabama Supreme Court's ruling on the personhood of frozen embryos, from Founder & President
@Advo_Katy
#ThemBeforeUs
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We have to wonder why these men are acquiring children in a way that doesn't require passing a background check. 🤔
This man is "stranded" because he can't get a passport as fast as he wants.
Probably because this is strikingly similar to child trafficking- someone who may or may not be the child's parent taking them across international borders.
#surrogacy
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The REAL cost isn't counted in this article. The real cost is the child who never gets a mother. The child who never gets to know her father.
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"Many of us warned that making husbands and wives optional in marriage would result in mothers and fathers becoming optional in parenthood. The past seven years have validated those concerns."
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Marriage is a matter of justice for children because it’s the only relationship that unites the two people to whom children have a natural right- their mother and father.
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@Advo_Katy
with Jeff Younger and Tim Pool explaining how surrogacy splices "mom" into three "interchangeable" or unneeded (in their view) women, genetic mom, birth mom, and social mom and taps on the primal wound of maternal separation and loss.
#surrogacy
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Traditional marriage is the only institution guaranteed to achieve perfect gender balance every time."
#TbuBook
quote from Gender Matters, p 58-59
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Natural law doesn't change based on politics and cultural acceptance. If what one thinks is "the right side of history" is against what we plainly know and observe in biology and nature, we know they're wrong.
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@Advo_Katy
with
@LilaGraceRose
talking about the studies on same sex parenting that magically find no difference in child outcomes, even though children always have to lose something to appear in a same-sex parent household. 🤔
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So with adoption you have a ton of rules and safeguards.
But with surrogacy, anything goes? Why would anyone be ok with adults procuring children without even a background check?
#adoption
#surrogacy
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Children deserve life. Knowing where they came from. Knowing WHOSE they are. They deserve to be safe and loved.
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We must balance compassion for our friends and families with where they are at and the things they experience or struggle with
WITH
the rights of the child.
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Healthy and mature adults will adapt their behavior so it doesn't hurt and violate the rights of children. CC
@Advo_Katy
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#BigFertility
preys on everyone, from the men and women they harvest biological products from, to the children they produce, edit, destroy, and sell.
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Adults who are promoting the rights of children, instead an ever growing list of what some other adults want, hear "you're going to be on the wrong side of history!"
A) The popular crowd is rarely on the right side of history
B) Natural law, biology, and common sense win the day
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Some people claim women are important...from media representation to the C-suite and board meetings...
But deny the most important woman of all to a child: her mother.
#LucyDeservesHerMother
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"Nobody is morally entitled to buy or have whatever they want, especially a human baby."
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On a societal level, no-fault divorce has given rise to a culture of low-commitment marriage at the expense of life-long risks to children.
See why divorce is so bad for kids >
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Katy's thought when considered the news story of a man pumping himself full of hormones and *chestfeeding* a poor baby.
100% focus on what the adult male wants. Zero concern for the child.
"She (he) was able to feed her (his) four-month-old grandchild without any side effects to her (him)self"
Children as objects of adult validation.
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This is why marriage and family are so essential to the well being of individuals and society at large.
#ThemBeforeUs
CC
@Advo_Katy
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Dr. Paul Sullins refutes common same-sex parenting studies
#ThemBeforeUs
1. Children in same-sex families are at higher risk of emotional and behavioral difficulties
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The safest place for a child is at home with both his/her mother and father. If mom and dad never marry or divorce, the other adults that come in and out of the home are statistically the most dangerous to a child.
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Reams of research testify to marriage being a force for good in the lives of children and statistically, the home of a child’s married mother and father is the safest place for a child. 1/
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Our
#ThemBeforeUs
#ChildrensRightsFastFacts
series. Pick a social ill you most want to fix. Protecting the rights of children to mom + dad is the
#1
way to start repairing what has been broken in society.
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Tired of the repeating mass incarceration? Put a stop to it and defend the rights of children.
Our
#ThemBeforeUs
#ChildrensRightsFastFacts
series.
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Another young woman, daughter of an egg donor, shares what she gained when she found her biological mother.
#TBUbook
#ThemBeforeUs
"Thank goodness we had the chance to cry in each other's arms and admit how much we missed each other, how much we love each other..."
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Except children, who have a right to the mother and father that produced him or her. Something politicians need to ignore for their political power.
This Senate is moving forward on the Respect for Marriage Act to codify marriage protections into federal law.
No one should be discriminated against because of who they love.
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Unless a spouse or child is in danger, divorce is off the table for a defender of children's rights.
#divorcesucks
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@MeghanMcCain
@Andy
This is a tragedy, not something to celebrate. Your children have their mom, Lucy will never know hers. 😪
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