Katy Faust

3 weeks ago | dailycitizen.focusonthefamily.com | Katy Faust

From infanticide to gender sterilization, history is repeating itself. The church must once again be the world’s fiercest protector of children. This tweet sparked many thoughts for me this week. “Pre-Christian Rome” was a world of child victimization. That’s what the early Christ-following church was born into. Abortion, infanticide, child castration, selling children, and child sexual abuse were common.

1 month ago | katyfaust.substack.com | Katy Faust

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1 month ago | katyfaust.substack.com | Katy Faust

A woman on social media recently “celebrated” her $75,000 payout for delivering a child via surrogacy to a single man. The tone? Triumphant. The subtext? Chilling. Was the baby handed to a kind, attentive man? Maybe. Perhaps this child will suffer only “mother-hunger”, the emotional fallout of being separated from the only woman he’s ever known. Or maybe, and it happens, that child has been delivered into the hands of an abuser. Because #BigFertility does not require background checks.

1 month ago | thefederalist.com | Katy Faust

Lilly Frost, aka Lillian Arielle Markowitz, aka Lillian Arevalo, aka Lillian Revalo, was recently sentenced to two years in prison “for stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from her clients.” Frost ran a surrogacy racketeering ring that reportedly included a Mexican surrogate giving birth in the street, babies abandoned because of health problems, a woman inseminated with an HIV-positive embryo, and a surrogate told to “keep it inside” after the baby died at six months — a virtual death...

1 month ago | theblaze.com | Katy Faust

On May 17, 2025, a 25-year-old named Guy Edward Bartkus detonated a bomb outside the American Reproductive Centers fertility clinic in Palm Springs, California. Four individuals in the blast periphery were injured, but since the clinic was closed, no staff were harmed. Thankfully, neither were any embryos. The only casualty was Guy Bartkus himself. But he had already been a victim of a different kind of blast — the one that destroyed his family.