IVF opened 'wrong door' to treating infertility, says Vatican official
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VATICAN CITY — While honoring one of the inventors of in vitro fertilization with the Nobel Prize for Medicine recognizes his contribution to human reproduction, it ignores the ethical consequences of his opening "the wrong door" in the fight against infertility, said the president of the Pontifical Academy for Life.
British scientist Robert Edwards, a retired professor at the University of Cambridge, England, was named the Nobel winner Oct. 4 for the development of in vitro fertilization.
His work led to the birth in 1978 of Louise Brown, the world's first "test-tube baby."
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