The Ethics of Human Embryo Experimentation

From about 1985 until the issuance of the Magisterium Instruction on Procreation in March, 1987. IVF scientists in Australia and abroad often claimed that the Church or the Pope approved IVF. The Cope's remarks on procreation in Melbourne in November, 1986, were interpreted by reporters as permissive of IVF. In Australia the press response to the Instruction was largely negative.

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