Book Review: The Ethics of Assisted Reproduction

Abstract

Introduction:  In the early 1980s, following the birth of Louise Brown, the world’s first ‘test-tube’ baby, Mary Warnock chaired the United Kingdom’s Committee of Inquiry into Fertilisation and Embryology. The report of that committee (the Warnock Report) was published in 1984, informing subsequent legislation on assisted reproduction. Two decades later, Warnock revisits the ethics of assisted reproduction, taking as her starting point the question of whether there is a right to have children.