387: Moral Dilemma: IVF, Surrogacy, and Adoption With Katy Faust

Now That We're A Family

Elisha and Katie Voetberg

Kids & Family, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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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 Newsweek, USA Today, The Federalist, Public Discourse, The Daily Signal, the Washington Examiner, the American Mind, the American Conservative. Katy helped design the teen edition of CanaVox which studies sex, marriage and relationships from a natural law perspective. Her next book, "Raising Conservative Kids in a Woke City" will be released Sept 2023. She and her pastor husband are raising their four children in Seattle.

You can find her work at https://thembeforeus.com/

Follow Katy on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/katyfaustofficial/

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0:00.0	I think of James I, it's a Christian calling to be caretakers of orphans.
0:05.7	Then contrasting that maybe to Syrogacy and IVF and maybe what would even be called third-party producers, maybe is what you would call them.
0:14.5	We as Christians need to think about these issues from a biblical perspective, right?
0:19.7	There's about 39 commandments in the Old
0:22.1	Testament that have to do with protecting vulnerable children, orphans and fatherless.
0:26.3	Why is that? It is because kids who grow up without a dad, especially, or a mom and dad,
0:32.4	are much more likely to be victimized and exploited. Howdy folks? Welcome back to the podcast. Katie and I had the
0:40.1	privilege of talking with Katie Faust from them before us, a nonprofit organization that is just that.
0:47.3	It's prioritizing the well-being of children. She wants to be the advocate for children, the unborn,
0:53.8	for sure, but then also those that are going to be
0:56.8	entering families through maybe IVF or through surrogacy or adoption. She's saying, hey, who's
1:02.7	advocating on behalf of all these children? Because unfortunately, policies aren't there to protect
1:09.1	them. The church is kind of silent on a lot of
1:11.3	these issues and so we are really grateful to speak with katy in regards to those issues you know
1:16.0	surrogacy how do we view that as Christians IVF how do we view that as Christians
1:20.9	adoption how do we view that you know as Christians and so she is really devoting her life
1:27.1	right now to this cause and so she has a lot to share about it And so she is really devoting her life right now to this cause. And so she has
1:28.9	a lot to share about it. And so we're really grateful for the work that she's doing and also for her
1:33.2	willingness to come on the podcast. I mean, I think you enjoyed the conversation very much as well, Katie.
1:38.5	Yeah, I can't wait for you guys to hear Katie. And I also wanted to let you know about a special that we're running for the Get It All Done Club for Mother's Day. This is a very short flash sale. We've never done
1:48.1	anything like this before. And we are not only offering lifetime access to the Get It All Done
1:54.2	Club, which breaks down all the systems that took me from drowning in motherhood with three children,
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