Making Babies : Is There a Right to Have Children?.

Mary Warnock steers a clear path through the web of complex issues underlying the use of new reproductive technologies. She begins by analysing what it means to claim something as a 'right', and goes on to discuss the cases of different groups of people. She also examines the ethical probl...

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Main Author: Warnock
Other Authors: Warnock, Mary
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2002.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Content; 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?; Can there be a Right to do What is Morally Wrong?; The Moral Status of the Human Embryo; Back to Infertility; May Doctors Refuse Treatment?; The Slippery Slope; Interim Conclusion; 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?Conclusions so Far; Are all Methods of Fertility Treatment Legitimate?; Cloning: 1997-2001; Would the Cloning of Humans be Intrinsically Wrong?; A Rights-Based Morality; Index