Bioethics

Caplan on “$10,000 to Abort?”

By Arthur Caplan Art Caplan has a new column up discussing the surrogacy agreement gone awry (noted by Judy Daar below) in which a surrogate was offered $10K to abort the fetus upon discovery of abnormalities.  Take a look. We’ve also had other discussions of this issue at Bill of Health, from Dov Fox’s recent…

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By Arthur Caplan

Art Caplan has a new column up discussing the surrogacy agreement gone awry (noted by Judy Daar below) in which a surrogate was offered $10K to abort the fetus upon discovery of abnormalities.  Take a look.

We’ve also had other discussions of this issue at Bill of Health, from Dov Fox’s recent post on abortion of disabled fetuses to Glenn Cohen’s post on Mitt Romney’s son’s abortion contract.

 

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  • Art Caplan

    Art Caplan is a bioethicist and has been a long time Bill of Health contributor. He is the Director of the Division of Medical Ethics in the Department of Population Health at NYU Langone Medical Center