#ThemBeforeUs is drafting a #SCOTUS brief addressing who can be listed as a parent on a child’s birth certificate.
If your birth certificate did not reflect your biological parents, I’d like to hear from you! #Adoption#DonorConception
Our SCOTUS brief will address three key points:
- Birth certificates serve children, not adults
- Children have a right to an accurate birth certificate, regardless of whether they are donor conceived or subsequently adopted
- Biology matters to children #childrensrights
The Conservative, Pro-Life Case Against Surrogacy 🧵
First, surrogacy critique must stem from defending the child. Bioethics and feminist opposition is strong, but can fall flat when all parties — the egg seller, surrogate, and commissioning parents — all love and consent to the arrangement.
A conservative position rejects surrogacy based on the self-evident, natural rights of the child:
• Right to life
• Right to their mother and father
• Right to be born free and not bought and sold.
The child never consent to the intentional loss of his or her mother.
But here’s what they skip: his parents spent 16 years in a bitter custody battle, his mom abducted him to Norway, and he changed his name to escape it all.
Broken homes are the common thread in mass shooters. 🧵