When something is "ethically wrong/right"

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Hello.

Do all of these sound natural? "Ethically wrong or right", "morally wrong/right acceptable/justified/justifiable."
For example,
"Some people think that having a baby through a surrogate is ethically wrong."
 

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Yes, they do.
 

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ethically wrong doesn't sound at all good to me. I think you mean unethical.
 

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Or just wrong.

Ethics is about what is right or wrong.
 

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ethically wrong doesn't sound at all good to me. I think you mean unethical.

Can I use "to have a baby" in my sentence instead of "having" and "via/through surrogacy"?
 

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You can just refer to the practice as surrogacy. This single word implies the whole procedure.
 

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You can just refer to the practice as surrogacy. This single word implies the whole procedure.

Yes, but regarding the choice between "having" and "to have". Is "to have" wrong? "Some people think that to have a baby through a surrogate is unethical."
 

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Yes, but regarding the choice between "having" and "to have". Is "to have" wrong? "Some people think that to have a baby through a surrogate is unethical."

It's not ungrammatical but I can't imagine a native speaker using it instead of "Some people think [that] having a baby ...".
 
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