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Vatican: Nobel to IVF pioneer raises questions (AP)

FILE- Professor Robert Edwards,  the British pioneer of IVF treatment, sits with two of his 'test-tube-babies', Sophie and Jack Emery who celebrate their second birthday in London in this file photo dated Monday July 20, 1998. Test-tube baby pioneer Robert Edwards of Britain has won the 2010 Nobel Prize in medicine it is announced Monday Oct. 4, 2010.  Edwards and some of his IVF test-tube children gatherd to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the birth of  Louise Brown, the world's first 'test tube' baby born in 1978. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)AP - The Vatican’s top bioethics official said Robert Edwards, who received the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for developing in vitro fertilization, opened “a new and important chapter in the field of human reproduction” but is also responsible for the destruction of embryos and the creation of a “market” in donor eggs.


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