Editorial | Sending the wrong message of life

Printer-friendly versionPrinter-friendly versionSend to friendSend to friendWhen the Nobel Prize committee honored one of the inventors of in vitro fertilization with the prize for medicine Oct. 4, the committee intended to send a message of congratulations to a man who changed the nature of human conception. In awarding the $1.5 million honor to Robert Edwards, 85, a professor emeritus at the University of Cambridge, the Nobel committee also sent a message that humans can be considered commodities.

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