Is It Selfish To Want Children?
The Michele Tafoya Podcast
Salem Podcast Network
2.4 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2023
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Katy Faust is the founder and president of Them Before Us, a non-profit focused on children’s rights. She raises a fascinating and controversial question: Is the desire to have children selfish? Is it ethical to create children via surrogacy? And are we really creating “designer babies”? The answers will surprise you.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Michelle Tofoya podcast, brought to you today by Gen Ysel. |
| 0:05.0 | We thank them for their sponsorship. |
| 0:07.0 | Coming up, is it selfish to want to have children? |
| 0:11.0 | To what extent will people go to have children in their lives? |
| 0:17.0 | What is ethical? |
| 0:19.0 | What is right? |
| 0:20.0 | What is wrong? What is injustice? what is wrong, what is unjust. |
| 0:22.0 | We're going to discuss it next. |
| 0:24.0 | Now, it's the Michelle Tofoya podcast. |
| 0:30.9 | Well, of all places to start a really conservative movement about children, |
| 0:36.3 | them before us was founded in Seattle, Washington, one of the most liberal cities on the planet. |
| 0:43.6 | But Katie Faust is kind of an anomaly out there in Seattle in the Great Pacific Northwest. |
| 0:50.1 | She's the founder and president of Them Before us, which she describes as a global movement |
| 0:54.8 | defending children's rights to their mother and father. |
| 0:59.8 | Listen to that again, a children's right to their mother and father. |
| 1:05.1 | Katie Faust publishes speaks and testifies widely on why marriage and family are matters of justice for children. |
| 1:12.9 | Her articles have appeared all over the place. |
| 1:14.6 | USA Today, Newsweek, Public Discourse, the Federalist, the Daily Signal, the Washington |
| 1:18.7 | examiner, the American mind, the American conservative. |
| 1:21.5 | She also helped design the teen edition of Canavox, which studies sex, marriage, and |
| 1:26.6 | relationships from a natural law perspective. |
| 1:30.1 | Her next book, Raising Conservative Kids in a Woke City, is going to be released later in |
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