Katy Faust > Quotes

“It will always be this child whose rights and well-being are sacrificed on the altar of Modern Family.”
― Katy Faust

“No other family structure approximates the benefits provided to children when they’re raised by their married, biological parents—not by two loving adults, nor by just any married man and woman, not even by their own unmarried parents.”
― Katy Faust, Them Before Us: Why We Need a Global Children's Rights Movement

“Adoptive parents are in essence paying to ensure the child's safety, whereas customers of Big Fertility are purchasing children themselves.”
― Katy Faust, Them Before Us: Why We Need a Global Children's Rights Movement

“In many cases, the only difference between child trafficking and a surrogacy contract is timing. If a contract is signed prior to conception, a woman is helping someone build a family. A contract signed after conception is child trafficking. To the child being sold, the timing of the contract makes no difference.”
― Katy Faust

“Using a sperm and/or egg donor ensures that a child will grow up missing a vital biological connection to his or her mother or father in order to serve the commissioning adult's desire for a biological connection.”
― Katy Faust

“The circumstances in which IVF should be permitted are limited to situations in which only gametes of the intended parents would be used and only the number of embryos immediately implantable would be created. There would be no selective abortions, and the biological mother would raise the child. Such a scenario is so cost-prohibitive, it's virtually unheard of.”
― Katy Faust, Them Before Us: Why We Need a Global Children's Rights Movement

“Adoptive parents are in pursuit of a child, willing to absorb the costs of vetting and training to adopt that child. They are invested because they are seeking the child. A stepparent is in pursuit of the child's parent.”
― Katy Faust, Them Before Us: Why We Need a Global Children's Rights Movement