"Imagine yourself standing in front of the door of a couple who you know has tried every technique to have a child and failed," says Tonnie L. Katz, editor of The Orange County Register . "Imagine it's your job to knock on that door and tell them that another family has their child, created from their stolen eggs and sperm."

The newspaper had learned that fertility doctors at the University of California at Irvine 's Center for Reproductive Health stole eggs from patients and gave them to unwitting women who were desperate to have children.

Katz says that she "struggled so hard with privacy concerns that at one point we even questioned whether to publish at all. You know as you stand at that door that the message you carry will change their lives forever."

After consulting an ethicist, the newspaper concluded, Katz says, that "the public's right to know about such wrongdoing outweighed any privacy consideration. But my stomach still hurts when I think of the sorrow we brought to so many families."

Do you agree with Katz that the newspaper had a duty to 1) write the story of the theft of sperm and eggs; and 2) inform the patients of the theft?