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Interview

Baroness Mary Warnock

Baroness Mary Warnock is one of Britain’s leading moral philosophers and has also chaired several official commissions of enquiry, including the Committee on Human Fertility and Embryology in the 1980s. She’s currently writing a book in response to Lord Joffe’s Bill, ‘Assisted Dying for the Terminally Ill’. Rick Lewis interviewed her at the House of Lords.

I hear you’re currently writing a book on euthanasia, to coincide with an upcoming House of Lords select committee report on the subject. What are your own personal findings on euthanasia so far, and how do they compare with the committee findings?

Well, the committee was divided. Its report was very good and very thorough. What I liked about it was that they had such a lot of evidence from all over the place. They went to the Netherlands and to Oregon, where euthanasia is permitted in a very limited way, or actually assisted suicide in the case of Oregon.

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