Table of Contents

Introduction
Techniques of assisted reproduction
Who pays?
The right that no stone should be left unturned
What constitutes a right?
Do people need to have children?
A further look at the question of whether there can exist a right to do what is morally wrong
The moral status of the human embryo
Back to infertility
2: May doctors refuse treatment?
The slippery slope
Are those who are not infertile entitled to assisted conception?
Openness
Why do homosexuals want children?
The natural and the unnatural
The search for security
Is fear a proper basis for moral judgement?
Conslusions so far
Are all methods of fertility treatment legitimate?
Cloning: 1997-2001

About the Author

Mary Warnock's work in academic philosophy includes the books Imagination, Memory, and Existentialism. Much of her career was spent at Oxford University, and she ras later Mistress of Girton College Cambridge. She was made a life peer in 1985, and chaired the Committee of Enquiry into Human Fertilisation and Embryology, whose report formed the basis of legislation in the UK. Her most recent book is her autobiography, Mary Warnock:
A Memoir.

Reviews

`clearly written'
The Scotsman
`elegant prose ... fascinating'
Ham and High
`the book as a whole is clearly structured and logically presented [it] is sprightly reading and food for serious thought. It would provide a good basis for discussion in high schools, colleges and book clubs'
Nature
`Making Babies is a remarkable book'
Derek Morgan, Times Highers Educational Supplement
`Warnock manages to communicate a wealth of accumulated insight into the ethics of assisted reproduction.'
Susanne Gibson, Analytic Teaching
`This book is... a combination of common sense and clear, rigorous and, above all, honest, argument.'
Mary Rowlands, Times Literary Supplement,