Katy Faust: Why Children Must Come Before Adult Desires
What happens when we evaluate marriage, IVF, surrogacy, and reproductive technology from the perspective of the child instead of the adult? Katy Faust, founder and president of Them Before Us, joins Faith in Health Care to explain the philosophy behind her work and the Greater Than campaign, a coalition seeking to challenge Obergefell v. Hodges and restore what Faust describes as a child-centered understanding of marriage and family. Katy discusses some of today’s most difficult questions surrounding IVF, embryo freezing, sperm and egg donation, surrogacy, same-sex parenting, divorce, infertility, and emerging reproductive technologies. She explains why she believes Christians should scrutinize these practices through the lens of children’s rights, human dignity, and biblical teaching. The conversation also explores how Christians can hold firm convictions while maintaining genuine relationships with people who disagree. Katy shares her own family experience, her approach to truth and compassion, and why she believes Christians must distinguish between loving individuals and evaluating ideas or public policy. This is a challenging conversation about children, family, reproductive technology, Christian ethics, and the rapidly changing meaning of parenthood.
You can learn more about Katy Faust’s work and explore the children’s rights scorecard at thembeforeus.com. For information about the Greater Than campaign, visit greaterthancampaign.com.
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Katy Faust is Founder and President of Them Before Us, a global movement defending children’s right to their mother and father. She publishes, speaks and testifies widely on why marriage and family are matters of justice for children. Her articles have appeared in outlets including Newsweek, USA Today, Fox News, The Federalist, Public Discourse, WORLD Magazine, First Things, and the Blaze. She is on the advisory board for the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship. She detailed her philosophy of worldview transmission in her book, Raising Conservative Kids in a Woke City. Her third book, Pro-Child Politics was published September 2024. She is spearheading Greater Than which aims to retake legal marriage on behalf of children. She and her husband have raised their four children in Seattle.
