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In an introduction to The Warnock Report on Human Fertilisation and Embryology, Mary Warnock writes:
We were obliged moreover to bear in mind that any law must be generally seen to be beneficial, that it must be intelligible and that it must be enforceable. The law must not outrage the feelings of too many people; but it cannot reflect the feelings of them all. It must be drawn up with a view to the common good, however this notoriously imprecise goal is to be identified.1
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Coughlan, M.J. (1990). Revelation and Legislation. In: The Vatican, the Law and the Human Embryo. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20773-2_7
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