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The deceptively named “Michigan Family Protection Act”—a package of bills legalizing commercial surrogacy and allowing intent-based parenting—passed the Michigan legislature this week and is making its way to Governor Whitmer’s desk. Here is what Them Before Us submitted in opposition of these bills: Dear Chair Chang and members, Them Before Us is a nonprofit committed to defending children’s rights to their mothers and fathers. We are writing in opposition to HBs 5207–5215 because of the significant and lasting harm that they pose to Michigan’s most vulnerable citizens—children. We urge you to consider their rights and the suffering that arises when these rights are violated. This package of bills violates children’s rights in a number of ways. First, surrogacy and third-party reproduction violate children’s right to life. Both surrogacy and third-party reproduction rely on in-vitro fertilization (IVF). The IVF industry creates lives outside of the womb that can only be sustained inside the womb. It is a violation of human dignity to place a group of people in charge of whether or not a fellow human lives, dies, or continues to develop. These human lives are left in limbo, at the mercy of an unregulated and unethical industry. The majority of […]