Change your child’s gender by the stroke of a pen? Custody fight over frozen embryos! All next on FOT

Brad Dacus, president
Pacific Justice Institute

Tuesday we’ll explore a couple of items that we haven’t talked about much in the past. First we’ll have our old friend Brad Dacus, president of the Pacific Justice Institute, to discuss pending legislation in (where else?) California that would permit a parent to change the gender of their children – no questions asked – by simply filling out a form.

The law would also create a “third” gender for state driver’s licenses and birth certificates. There is another piece of legislation that would jail people for up to a year for not using a person’s pronoun of choice.

After Brad we’ll have a real first for FOT: a legal fight over frozen human embryos in a Colorado custody case. Special counsel for the Thomas More Society Rita Gitchell, who recently filed an amicus curie (friend of the court) brief on behalf of the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists, will join us.

The nub of the case is that dad wants custody of the embryos so they can be destroyed but

Rita Gitchell
Thomas More Society

mom wants to keep them for possible later implantation. How might the court decide? Rita has served as president and on the board of directors for the National Lawyers Association and is a member of the review board for the Diocese of Joliet.

So join Deacon Mike Manno and Pam Briddell Tuesday at 10 a.m. (Central) on Iowa Catholic Radio 1150 AM; 88.5 & 94.5 FM, and streaming on IowaCatholicRadio. You can also hear the repeat broadcast at 10 p.m. Podcasts of earlier programs can be heard here.

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