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Human Dignity, Disability & BioethicsNEWS OR ANALYSIS

Thanks to Gay Marriage, Recognizing Mothers and Fathers Is “Unconstitutional”

This is the worst “I told you so” ever. In the committee hearing for Washington State’s Uniform Parentage Act (UPA) which will legalize commercial surrogacy, award parental rights to any adult(s) who can acquire a child through reproductive technologies, and make parenthood gender neutral, the bill’s sponsor stated what traditional marriage supporters have known all along: “redefining marriage redefines parenthood.” Around minute 54 Senator Pedersen says, Then 6-7 years ago now, we anticipated a lot of what’s in UPA 2017 and made most of our act gender neutral. We were the first of a number of

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Katy Faust|Them Before Us|
Human Dignity, Disability & BioethicsSurrogacy
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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, and child, we won’t be able to conserve anything else. To that end, conservative brands and personalities have built massive followings by decrying single motherhood, same-sex marriage, and broken families. Except when their friends do it. At least that’s how it appears. The starkest example of conservative hypocrisy followed Dave R

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Katy Faust|Them Before Us|
Human Dignity, Disability & BioethicsNEWS OR ANALYSIS

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 [a surrogate baby] disrupt or confirm normative expectations about the ‘babyness’ of babies, the ‘parentness’ of parents.” Boross suggests “surrogate babies are queer creatures by default,” “given their prenatal history,” and “that queerness can serve as a window into the queerness of all babies.” Evolutionary biologist and Manhat

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Katy Faust|Them Before Us|
Human Dignity, Disability & BioethicsSurrogacy