The end does not justify the means

Dear Editor, Mary Kenny suggests that “the world-wide success…of In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) makes this method of assisted conception awkward to criticise” (IC 8/5/14).

How does the untold holocaust of human embryonic life sacrificed on the altar of this unethical interference with nature qualify IVF as a 'success'? Does the end now justify the means?

Is it really so awkward to criticise or question how many 'excess' IVF embryos are now in a frozen state awaiting birth? Who will decide their fate?

Please give space in your paper to the more ethical and without doubt more 'successful'

Natural Procreative Technology (Na Pro) which boasts successful pregnancies brought to term

even in the case of failed IVF treatment.

Yours etc.,

Fr Eamonn McCarthy

Charleville,

Co. Cork.