3. Experimenting and the New Biology: “A Consummation Devoutly to Be Wished”

Warnock M. , Law and the Pursuit of Knowledge, Conquest 175: 1 (1986).

The term “embryo” has traditionally been used to describe the stage reached in development where organogenesis has started…. To the collection of dividing cells up to the determination of the primitive streak we propose to give the name “pre-embryo.”

Connolly T.J. , A Catholic Perspective on IVF, paper delivered at Pan Pacific Surgical Association Conference (March 24–30, 1984); cf. Catholic Bishops' Joint Committee on Bio-Ethical Issues, In Vitro Fertilisation: Morality and Public Policy, evidence submitted to the Warnock Committee.

Dunstan G.R. , The Ethical Dilemma, paper delivered at 4th International Conference on In Vitro Fertilization (Melbourne, November 22, 1985).

See, e.g., Scientists for Life Inc., The Position of Modern Science on the Beginning of Human Life (1975) mimeo; also Sen. Brian Harradine's Second Reading Speech on the Human Embryo Experimentation Bill 1985, citing Tonti-Filippini N. and The 1977 Report of the New Zealand Royal Commission on Contraception, Sterilisation and Abortion.

McLaren A. , Human Embryo Research: Yes or No?, Ciba Foundation Study Group, November 6–7, 1985; Grobstein C. , External Human Fertilization, Scientific American 240(33): 40–43 (1979).

Robertson J.A. , Embryo Research, University of Western Ontario Law Review 24(1): 23 (1986).

Attorney-General for the State of Queensland (Ex rel. Kerr) and Another v. T (1983) 46 ALR 275; K v. Minister for Youth and Community Services re Infant “K” [1982] 1 NSWLR 311; Paton v. British Pregnancy Advisory Service Trustees [1979] I QB 276; Paton v. United Kingdom [1980] 1 Eur. Comm. HR. 342.

Ontario Law Reform Commission, Report on Human Artificial Reproduction and Related Matters 2: 380–81 (1985).

Warnock , supra note 1, at 1.

Human Embryo Experimentation Bill 1985 (C'th).

Infertility (Medical Procedures) Act 1984 (Vic).

Id;§§6.5, 10–13, 19.

Department of Health and Social Security, Report of the Committee of Inquiry into Human Fertilisation and Embryology (July 1984) (“the Warnock Report”), par. 13.14.

Ontario Law Reform Commission, supra note 9, at 123–30; Davies I. , Fabricated Man: The Dilemma Posed by Artificial Reproductive Techniques, Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly 35(345): 380 (1984).

Federal Ministry of Justice/Research and Technology, Report: Working Group on In Vitro Fertilisation, Genom Analysis and Gene Therapy (Federal Republic of Germany, 1985).

Dunstan , supra note 4.