In Vitro Fertilization (IVF)
There are about four million test-tube babies born since the first -Louise Brown in July 1978- Edwards initial research, the technique has been polished and perfected and now has almost the same success rate--20%--as fertile couples enjoy.
The pro-life groups react to the awarding of the Nobel prize for dedicine to Robert Edwards on the grounds that the technique is an abuse of scientific knowledge and has caused abuse and deaths of embryonic human beings. The U.K. based society for protection of unborn children was critical of the award to Edwards saying “Invitro fertilization is possible because of one simple fact: human life begins at fertilization/conception. But IVF is an abuse of this knowledge .. it puts human embryos at a vast disadvantage; they are subject to testing and discrimination, freezing and storage, disability and death. Countless human embryos have perished in the development and practice of IVF.” The society says that well over million embryos have been discarded or frozen, or selectively aborted or miscarried or used in destructive experiments.
What’s your reaction ? What do you think about the in vitro fertilization (IVF)?
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| Dr. Robert Edwards |
British medical expert Robert Edwards has just won the Nobel Prize for medicine of 2010 for his pioneering of in vitro fertilization (IVF) techniques since the 1950s. Eighty-five-year-old Edwards, is largely responsible for the invention of extra-womb fertilization, where a human egg is implanted with sperm in the laboratory, before being implanted in the uterine lining where it would have naturally settled during normal fertilization. The invention earned the nickname "test tube babies”.
There are about four million test-tube babies born since the first -Louise Brown in July 1978- Edwards initial research, the technique has been polished and perfected and now has almost the same success rate--20%--as fertile couples enjoy. 
The pro-life groups react to the awarding of the Nobel prize for dedicine to Robert Edwards on the grounds that the technique is an abuse of scientific knowledge and has caused abuse and deaths of embryonic human beings. The U.K. based society for protection of unborn children was critical of the award to Edwards saying “Invitro fertilization is possible because of one simple fact: human life begins at fertilization/conception. But IVF is an abuse of this knowledge .. it puts human embryos at a vast disadvantage; they are subject to testing and discrimination, freezing and storage, disability and death. Countless human embryos have perished in the development and practice of IVF.” The society says that well over million embryos have been discarded or frozen, or selectively aborted or miscarried or used in destructive experiments.  |
| The Vatican Rome (Italy) |
The Vatican’s top bioethics official is offering a mixed assessment of Robert Edwards, the newly appointed head of the pontifical academy for life, says Edwards opened “ a new and important chapter in the field of human reproduction.” But in what he stresses is a personal opinion .. he also says Edwards is responsible for destruction of embryos and the creation of a “market” in donor eggs.
The Vatican opposes in vitro fertilization separates conception from the “conjugal act” between a husband and wife and unimplanted embryos are discarded or used for research. Church teaching holds that life begins at conception, and must be respected and protected from then on.
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