Wed Oct 5, 2022 – 4:37 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – On last week’s episode of the LSN podcast, I interviewed Katy Faust, author of the brilliant new book Them Before Us: Why We Need a Global Children’s Rights Movement. A key problem with our current cultural view of children, Faust points out, is that we believe adults have a right to them, and we do not consider the rights of children—most prominently, their right to their biological parents.
A recent report from The Guardian perfectly encapsulates Faust’s point. Titled “‘We are expected to be OK with not having children’: how gay parenthood through surrogacy became a battleground,” the column begins by posing a question: “In New York, a gay couple fighting to make their insurers pay for fertility treatment have found themselves in the middle of a culture war. What happens when the right to parenthood involves someone else’s body?”
To ask the question, of course, is to answer it—there is no “right to parenthood,” and homosexual couples do not have the “right” to someone else’s body. For all the progressive babble about a post-Roe “Handmaid’s Tale,” the image accompanying the report was extremely creepy—two muscular
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