Is Fox News showing itself to be incompatible with the future of the Conservative movement?

By Easton Martin | July 23, 2026

The recent announcement that Fox News host Guy Benson and his partner welcomed a child via surrogate has raised a difficult question for the conservative movement. Namely, will we conserve one of the few fundamental institutions left to conserve? That institution is the family.​

When two men purchase a child through surrogacy, it turns human life into a commodity. Children deserve, and indeed are designed to have, both a mother and a father. Anything less is a tragedy. While tragedies occur frequently in a fallen world, there is a fundamental difference between an unavoidable tragedy and a situation created intentionally. Gay Republicans may hate to hear this reality, but no one is entitled to children. That principle is precisely where conservatives ought to stand.​

Former Congressman George Santos recently targeted conservative journalist Megan Basham for stating the obvious traditional position regarding the message intentional motherlessness sends. Santos missed the point entirely, proving that he either does not understand the issue or simply does not care. Conservatives are not trying to push the gay community out, but the movement must stand for core principles unapologetically.​

Santos pointed to the existence of motherless and fatherless children across the globe, but that argument misses the mark again. There remains a vast distinction between a child who loses a parent due to tragic circumstances and a child who is deliberately deprived of a mother or father from birth.​

This debate has also exposed deeper friction within conservative media. Fox News personality Lisa Kennedy Montgomery, known as Kennedy, directed harsh comments on social media toward Megan Basham, who has been fighting cancer. Between these personal attacks and the promotion of commercial surrogacy, it seems the decay at Fox News continues.​

This is the same network that paid over 700 million dollars to settle a lawsuit with a voting machine company and refuses to platform or discuss figures like Mike Lindell. As these controversies accumulate, we are left to consider how high our hopes can realistically remain for the future of Fox News.