Are Catholic universities giving up reproductive medicine?

Abstract:

:The Catholic Church has established a large number of universities worldwide. A dozen have schools of medicine and the impact of church doctrine on reproductive medicine appears widely disparate between some medical schools at Catholic universities in Europe and the rest of the world. The pressure of the Vatican on the Catholic universities in Belgium to abandon IVF is mounting. Comparison of the scientific performances by the Catholic universities with and without IVF shows that the absence of IVF is disastrous for research in reproductive medicine.

journal_name

Reprod Biomed Online

authors

Brosens I

doi

10.1016/s1472-6483(10)60549-4

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2007-12-01 00:00:00

pages

43-6

eissn

1472-6483

issn

1472-6491

pii

S1472-6483(10)60549-4

journal_volume

15 Suppl 2

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