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#512: Surrogacy and Secrecy (about suicide)

#512: Surrogacy and Secrecy (about suicide)

Checking in on the New York Times' *The Ethicist*

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Nov 29, 2023
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Kwame Anthony Appiah, the in-house ethicist for the New York Times, has recently taken up questions on surrogacy and secrecy. The latter case has to do with assisted suicide (murder!). As I think working through specific questions can be especially illuminating, I thought I would evaluate Appiah’s counsel. 

Case 1: A gay couple wants two children via sur…

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