(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?”-- More...
