Tuesday, December 9, 2008
NYT Public Editor Comments On Alex Kuczynski's Surrogacy Article
NY Times: The Privileged and Their Children, by Clark Hoyt:
...The magazine article about gestational surrogacy — a woman’s bearing the biological child of someone else — posed a very different issue. The facts were not in dispute. But the article focused almost totally on the wealthy Kuczynski and her feelings without giving a voice to Cathy Hilling, the substitute teacher who bore her son. The article glossed over their class and economic differences, but the accompanying photographs seemed to emphasize them. The cumulative impact struck some readers as elitist....
Via Julie Shapiro. I posted an excerpt and link to Kuczynski's piece here.
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/reproductive_rights/2008/12/nyt-public-edit.html