Oct 12, 2010 / 01:06 am
Reaction to the awarding of the Nobel Prize for Medicine to Robert Edwards ignored that the true agenda of in-vitro fertilization (IVF) includes hubris towards human life and the dominance of scientists over society, a Scottish columnist has argued.
While some have attacked the Catholic Church’s criticism of the Nobel Committee, Gerald Warner said in The Scotsman, the Church’s reaction was “no more aggressive” than the professor’s own comments.
According to Warner, the IVF pioneer Edwards has said of his work: “I wanted to find out exactly who was in charge, whether it was God Himself or whether it was scientists in the laboratory - It was us! The Pope looked totally stupid.”
“That hubristic claim revealed the true IVF agenda, which was not primarily to assist childless couples,” Warner charged. “Above all, it was about the right of scientists to dominate society with a dehumanizing technology which nobody must presume to constrain.”