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... that they specify what ought to be done and aim to mark the boundaries between acceptable and unacceptable conduct. Mary Warnock, an academic involved in inquiries into issues of moral concern says, "I do not believe that there is a neat way of marking off moral issues from all others, some people, at some time, may regard things as matters of moral right or wrong, which at another time and another place are thought to be matters of taste, or indeed to be matters of no importance at all". A case that caused much controversy was that of R v Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority ex parte Blood (1997). In the case, the husband of Diane Blood fell into a coma. The husband had asked for samples of his sperm to be collected for future IVF. The husband died, and the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) prevented the research trust from ...
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