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PubMed1985

Moral thinking and government policy: the Warnock Committee on Human Embryology.

A parliamentary committee of inquiry was convened in response to growing concern--among the general public and the scientific community--about new techniques in human fertilization and research in embryology. The committee had to enter that jurisprudential minefield, the theoretical relation between morality and the law. When issues arise in which there is no historical tradition, the voice of morality may be genuinely confused and uncertain. But the law, unlike moral opinion, cannot be contradictory; it must be definite, unambiguous, and universally applicable.

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PubMed1989

Committees and commissions in the United Kingdom.

In the United Kingdom there have been few committees or commissions dealing specifically with biomedical ethics, and where such bodies have been set up they have merely reported on a specific topic and then disbanded. However, there may well be standing committees in the future, of which the Voluntary Licensing Authority for Human In Vitro Fertilisation and Embryology is a precursor. This paper surveys the work of three special committees or working groups which have reported in the period 1970 to the present. Of these the Warnock Committee is by far the most important, and the issues which it raises are discussed with specific reference to the place of philosophers and theologians on such bodies. It is concluded that, although there has been some movement in the UK toward the utilization of those with special skills and knowledge in the field of bioethics, much more could be done in this regard.

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PubMed1991

Ethical and legal implications in IVF and prenatal diagnosis in the U.K.

The natural desire for couples to be parents and the medical practitioner's inability to treat most genetic diseases have been responsible for some of the most exciting research into infertility and genetic disorders. This has led in the United Kingdom to the establishment of the Warnock Committee of Inquiry into Human Fertilization and its report in 1984, and to a Review of the guidance on Research Use of Fetuses and Fetal Material published in 1989 and known as the Polkinghorne Report. The Warnock Report, among other ethical issues, considers the most fundamental question which has been debated for thousands of years, namely, What is life and when does it begin? More recently, the report has been responsible for new legislation which imposes ethical and legal restrictions on the scientific and medical community. The Polkinghorne Report recommends a voluntary code of practice which is morally and ethically acceptable within our society. We are also fortunate in the U.K. to have a parliamentary structure which allows debate on such important human issues and is prepared to impose ethical restrictions.

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PubMed1986

The Warnock Report and single women: what about the children?

The Warnock Committee decided not to sanction artificial insemination by donor (AID) and in vitro fertilisation (IVF) for single heterosexual women or for lesbian women on the grounds that it is better for children to be born into a two-parent heterosexual family. From an examination of the effects on children of growing up in fatherless heterosexual and lesbian families, this paper questions that assumption.

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PubMed1987

Attitudes towards donor insemination--a post-Warnock survey.

In a multi-centred study, a total of 799 patients, donors and health-care professionals concerned with artificial insemination with donor semen (AID) responded to a questionnaire regarding their attitudes towards current provision of AID services and proposed legislation. There was little support for any fundamental change in the way in which AID is practised, at least in those centres. The anonymous status of the donor met with universal agreement. Although there was some support for the communication of non-identifying details to the recipient couple, where they wanted them, there was no support for any legislation which might give the AID child a right of access to details of the donor. The greatest divergence of opinion was over the question of who should have access to AID treatment and whether or not screening procedures should be applied to prospective parents. Most respondents felt that the closed and confidential relationship between the clinic and the other parties involved should not automatically be extended to general practitioners or any national bodies. In respect of specific recommendations of the Warnock Committee, there was support for changes which might legitimize or assist the present system, but not for any which might be restrictive.

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PubMed1986

Psychological and psychiatric aspects of learning difficulties.

The Warnock Committee (1978) recommended that in the future the educational planning of services for children and young people should be based on the assumption that one in six children at any time and up to one in five at some time in their school career will require some form of special educational provision and the approach should be one of "needs" rather than handicap.

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PubMed1985

Embryo research.

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PubMed1991

Surrogacy.

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PubMed1990

Philosophical integrity and policy development in bioethics.

Critically examining what most people take for granted is central to philosophical inquiry. Philosophers who accept positions on policy making commissions, tasks forces, or committees cannot, however, play the same uncompromisingly critical role in this capacity as they do in the classroom or in their personal research or writing. Still, philosophers have much to contribute to such bodies, and they can do so without compromising their integrity or betraying themselves as philosophers.

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