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

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(More customer reviews)Mary Warnock undertakes a large but manageable task in discussing the issues surrounding 'Making Babies' and delivers an impressive summary. Warnock treats issue with compassion, fairness and careful consideration, making it difficult to disagree with her conclusions. She is clearly very well informed on the subject and uses her wealth of knowledge on the subject to make fair judgements. An enjoyable, thought-provoking read which proved very helpful in reaching a personal ethical opinion on the issue of 'Making Babies'

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Is there a such thing as a universal right to have children? Should medical assistance to have children be available to everyone? Are all methods of assisted reproduction legitimate?The development of new reproductive technologies has spawned heated debate and deep controversy about how fertility treatments should be used clinically and by whom they should be controlled.Many individuals and groups claim access to assisted reproduction as an essential right--not only clinically infertile heterosexual couples, but also single women, gay couples, post-menopausal women, and career-oriented couples who wish to delay having children. Others argue that the simple desire to have children cannot be the sole criteria to determine whether assisted reproduction should be a human right. Furthermore, some object to providing fertility treatment on the basis of age, sexual orientation, or other lifestyle features.Mary Warnock steers a clear path through the web of complex issues underlying these divergent views. She analyzes what it means to claim something as a "right," examines the ethical problems faced by particular types of assisted reproduction, including artificial insemination, in-vitro fertilization, and surrogacy, and argues that in the future human cloning may well become a viable and acceptable form of treatment for some types of infertility.

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