Vatican official criticizes award of Nobel Prize to Robert Edwards

[cbdo2007]

(CNN) -- An official with the Vatican criticized the decision to award the Nobel prize for medicine to British doctor Robert G. Edwards for his work on in vitro fertilization, Italy's official news agency ANSA reported Tuesday.

Ignazio Carrasco de Paula, president of the Pontifical Academy for Life, said giving the award to Edwards was "completely inappropriate," according to the news agency.

He said Edwards' work had created a market for human eggs and created problems of embryos being frozen, the news agency said.

Edwards, known as the "father of the test tube baby," won the Nobel Prize for medicine on Monday.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/10/05/sweden.nobel.medicine/index.html?hpt=T2
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[Teaser]

1. Dear Magisterium: suck me

.

[joeybee12]

2. Yeah, and you can't molest a frozen embryo, so the Church sees no

point in creating those.

[madrchsod]

3. who gives a shit what the pope says....

[WeekendWarrior]

4. The Vatican Needs to STFU

I'm all for free speech, but until these assholes get their own house in order, I don't think they should be criticizing anyone.

[GodlessBiker]

5. The Vatican doesn't have a good track record on science, does it? Exhibit 1: Galileo.

[PetrusMonsFormicarum]

6. Does anybody even give a rat's ass

what a bunch of pedophile-ennablers in funny hats think?

[Deep13]

7. Two points, Vatican...

1. The rest of the world is not required to accept your baseless, theological claims on the nature of life and reproduction.

2. Given your complicity in institutional child rape and fascism, kindly shut the fuck up.

[hobbit709]

8. I'd leave off the kindly part.

[MineralMan]

9. Ah, the Vatican's irrelevancy to the 21st Century continues

to expand. Ah, well...

[cbdo2007]

10. Strange thing is that most Catholic Churches will still baptise IVF babies.

So, they don't agree with how the baby was created but they'll still accept the kids into the church?? Sounds like more hypocrital church talk to me.

[awoke_in_2003]

11. well if they baptize them...

they are catholic, and the church will collect money off them for the rest of their lives.

[woodsprite]

12. I'd say the Pope needs to stay out of my test tube and my womb. n/t

[piratefish08]

13. Fuck you pope nazi.

Just die already.

The world is a worse place with you in it.

[Iggo]

14. Hey Vatican.

Shut.The.Fuck.Up.

[gratuitous]

15. So create your own awards, Mr. de Paula

Simple enough, no?