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Vatican officials have hit at the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to the of in-vitro fertilization, Dr Robert Edwards. They said the award to the British researcher was "completely out of " and went against all Christian teaching on procreation. Spokesman Monsignor Ignacio Carrasco de Paula told the ANSA news that IVF has led to “incomprehensible like children born from grandmothers and mothers 'for '”. He expressed his at "the great number of embryos around the world, which at best are waiting to be transferred to but will most probably end up being abandoned or dying”. The current Pope Benedict XVI believes IVF is wrong because it replaced the natural sexual union between husband and wife.

In-vitro fertilization is the of fertilizing human egg cells by sperm outside a woman's . It created the world’s first “test- baby” in 1978 and has since created four million babies. IVF has changed the of millions of infertile couples who could not have children. The Nobel Prize committee said Professor Edwards' pioneering had brought " to infertile people all over the world". They added: "His achievements have made it possible to infertility, a medical condition afflicting a large proportion of , including more than 10% of all couples worldwide.” The first baby born via IVF, Louise Brown, 32, said the award was " news". She told reporters she was “so glad that one of the pioneers of IVF has been given the recognition he ”.