Robert Edwards, a Nobel Prize winner from Great Britain who helpeddevelop in vitro fertilization (IVF) technology, has died at age 87.
USA Today reports that “data show more than 4 million babies have been born worldwide using IVF, but not without ongoing controversy.” Part of the controversy arose in 2010, when Edwards was awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine for his research.
Edwards’ research to develop IVF has raised ongoing conversations about the moral and ethical dimensions of “test-tube babies.” When Edwards received the Nobel Prize in 2010, “the Roman Catholic Church denounced the award, arguing that human life should only begin through intercourse and not artificially.”
CT previously has reported on the topic of IVF, including test tube ethics and the ethical dimensions of reproductive technology.
