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The United States Supreme Court Building at 1 First Street Northeast in Washington, D.C.
There’s a growing movement in America that is speaking hard truths about what our culture has done to families and children; and it deserves our careful attention. When pop singer and songwriter Meghan Trainor recently posted a photo of herself in a hospital bed holding a newborn delivered by a surrogate, the image went viral. And while it was certainly more dignified than homosexual men pretending to be postpartum after purchasing a child through surrogacy, it still points to something deeply disordered in how our society thinks about marriage, sex, and children.
Many people — including many Christians — view surrogacy as a harmless advancement in reproductive technology. People want babies. This is a healthy desire, because children are a blessing! But separating that desire from God’s design for family quickly turns a blind eye to the serious moral problems embedded in how surrogacy works. This underregulated system quickly commodifies children and even allows pedophiles and child abusers to exploit it to acquire victims.
Katy Faust of Them Before Us, a global movement for children’s rights to their mother and father, has been sounding this alarm clearly and unapologetically. Her response to the Meghan Trainor post captured it well — we can be glad a child is alive and loved while still refusing to pretend the method of bringing that child into the world was without harm. No child should be created through a system that treats women as means and babies as products.
The deeper legal problem traces back to the 2015 Obergefell decision. When the Supreme Court severed marriage in law from its biological foundation, it also severed the legal connection between children and the two people whose union creates them. Marriage became, in both law and culture, an institution centered on adult fulfillment.
Faust recently announced the formation of a new coalition called “Greater Than” — bringing together pastors, parents, lawyers, policymakers, and everyday Americans to speak one message: that marriage is God’s primary plan for protecting children, and children deserve better than a culture that treats them as a product or accessory of adult desire.
Just as the pro-life movement has spent decades defending the unborn, new coalitions are rising up to defend children outside the womb.
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