A new piece by contributor Art Caplan on NBC News:
A British high court has permitted Kyle Casson, a single man, to adopt an eight-month-old boy who was carried and delivered by a surrogate — Casson’s own mother.
To diagram this family tree, Casson, 27, technically adopted not his son but his brother because the woman who carried the baby to term is, legally, the mother. That also means that Casson’s mom gave birth, technically, to a son and a grandson at the same time.
Biologically, the child is her grandson.
The ruling traverses an array of ethical twists and turns. Let’s start with the more common fault lines. […]
Read the full article here.