What’s Wrong with Warnock?

Abstract

"The title of this article might at first sight suggest an intemperate, extreme, totally negative response to the Warnock Report. That is not in fact what appears here. There is much in the Government Committee's Inquiry into Human Fertilization and Embryology which I applaud and commend. Certainly in offering criticism, it is appropriate to grant that the Committee had a very difficult task. The issues with which they grappled are complex; there does not appear to be any general agreement in society concerning them; and the task of legislating in the moral sphere in a society as pluralistic as ours is becoming increasingly difficult. The Warnock Report has merits of orderliness and readability. Credit should be given where credit is due. Readers are strongly recommended not to allow perusal of this or any other critical comment upon it to substitute for reading the Report itself"