Vatican official criticises Nobel win for IVF pioneer

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-11472753

A Vatican official has said the awarding of the Nobel Prize for Medicine to British IVF pioneer Robert Edwards is "completely out of order".
Ignacio Carrasco de Paula, head of the Pontifical Academy for Life, said the award ignored the ethical questions raised by the fertility treatment.
He said IVF had led to the destruction of large numbers of human embryos.

Oh dear!

and yet,he does say

Mr Carrasco, the Vatican's spokesman on bio-ethics, said in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) had been "a new and important chapter in the field of human reproduction".

and then says

But he said the Nobel prize committee's choice of Prof Edwards had been "completely out of order" as without his treatment, there would be no market for human eggs "and there would not be a large number of freezers filled with embryos in the world", he told Italy's Ansa news agency.

So the 4 million born through IVF don't count for much then and never mind the fact that all those frozen eggs and embryos would still not have been born even if IVF hadn't been set up.

[Pierre]

It's just an opinion, that to normal thinking people doesn't mean anything.

I don't think there's many people, catholics included, that give a toss what the pope or his minions think.

[Ignitionnet]

I suspect the millions who live in the real world and have been helped by IVF, Catholics included, couldn't care less

[PeteLockwood]

Originally Posted by Ignitionnet

I suspect the millions who live in the real world and have been helped by IVF, Catholics included, couldn't care less

aye, +1

[frogstamper]

Even the faithful would be hard pressed to live by all the catholic churchs many pompous edicts...and they wonder why membership is falling away in Europe.

Originally Posted by Ignitionnet

I suspect the millions who live in the real world and have been helped by IVF, Catholics included, couldn't care less

Yep.