Morning Wire Big Fertility Exposed: The Dark Side of Modern Surrogacy
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Mar 22, 2026 
Katy Faust, founder of Them Before Us and children's-rights advocate, discusses alarming surrogacy scandals and legal loopholes. She outlines cases of mass procurement, foreign demand, and citizenship worries. The conversation highlights how laws and technology can prioritize fertility industry interests over protections for children.
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California Surrogacy House With 21 Children
- Katy Faust recounts a California case where a Chinese couple had 21 surrogate children in their mansion after one infant was hospitalized for abuse.
- Footage showed toddlers with shaved heads sitting at desks, nannies hitting them, and a reception-like flow of visitors, suggesting an organized operation rather than a large family.
Surrogacy Enables Detachment From Biological Parents
- Katy Faust argues surrogacy as practiced detaches children from genetic parents and assigns them to whoever can pay, because technology and law enable it.
- California's permissive parentage statutes legally sever biological ties without screening, enabling mass acquisition of infants.
Surrogacy Poses National Security Risks
- Katy Faust highlights national security concerns as foreign buyers, particularly Chinese clients, use U.S. surrogacy to create children with U.S. citizenship.
- She cites a Wall Street Journal report about a Chinese billionaire acquiring ~100 children via California surrogates and U.S. egg donors for citizenship and phenotype preferences.