Science and Religion collide a lot these days, though clearly the tension between what referred to, as the , has existed for centuries. When the collisions occur it is the result of conflicting values as well as on theological grounds. This was made abundantly clear this week with the awarding of the to one of the co-creators of. On the one hand seemed of a note, sheer excitement and congratulation. On the other hand, . The Church鱿鱼视频app clear stance on IVF and Robert Evans socialist politics to being behind what many expected to be a much earlier awarding of the prize.
Clearly the Church is not indifferent to the pain experienced by couples incapable of conception but as the made 鈥淎s Catholic doctors," we at FIAMC "recognize that pain that infertility brings to a couple, but equally we believe that the research and treatment methods needed to solve the problems of infertility have to be conducted within an ethical framework which respects the special dignity of the human embryo, which is no different from that of a mature adult with a brilliant mind."
None of this can be discussed without reference to the growing number of cases involving 鈥榤ix-ups鈥�, mistakes or possibly worse when it comes to the identity of the babies born of IVF. Recent are making news in Ottawa, and the problem is clearly not confined to individual doctors or to Canada and the are compounded by this growing list of 鈥榤istakes鈥�.
Nor as even the Indian newspaper are the problems as simple as any of can imagine, 鈥渢he widespread use of such methods has created new ethical issues. For example, 鈥榬ent-a-womb tourism' has become a thriving business in India, with wealthy couples from abroad paying poor women large sums of money to carry IVF embryos to full term.鈥�
As this report makes clear that Catholics are not alone in considering the Nobel winning tachnology to be a win win: 鈥淭he bewildering array of options due to the IVF revolution -- from the morality of making "designer babies" to exploitation of poor women as surrogate mothers -- has created much concern and many debates among secular ethicists as well.鈥�
, a noted American Bioethicist told the "In exploring the fundamental mechanisms of how human reproduction actually works, Edwards unleashed a social, ethical and cultural tsunami that he could not have predicted and I don't think anyone at the time could have anticipated. It opened so many doors that I'm not sure we even fully appreciate it today."