But sadly our own indian physician, the Late Subhash Mukhopadhyay, who was responsible for the first test tube baby in India, only three months after the world's first official test tube baby wasn't given any recognition until much after this death.
Even Dr. Edwards' research was not an easy one, he faced many difficulties and oppostition in terms on funding and approval.
An idea of a baby though in-vitro fertilisation was not even free from social stigmas. The Vatican disapproved of this method of conception even though it was a gift to those who couldn't concieve naturally. The society would look down upon parents and individuals who would take up this option.
Infact the Bengal government bullied and harrassed Dr. Mukhopadhyay calling his research and his achievement 'bogus' which finally led to his suicide three years later.
Why do governments behave in such a manner? Why do religious institutions seems so reactionary at times?
Reading these stories makes you wonder where all this talk about ethics in science goes when countries created time bombs that have wiped out entire cities? Or been used by governments to perform heinous medical experiments on war prisoners like Hitler Germany did on jews and others during second world war? Or the recently unveiled atrocitites committed by the U.S. government on the Guatemalen people during the late 1940s. It's pathetic and shocking.
It's time people were able to understand that ethics is a simple matter of perception, especially incase
of governments, it's rather a matter of convinience. The same church that asks it's nuns and priests to withold from sexual acts and thoughts, something essential to human functioning, calling it impure, doesn't refrain from preaching about naturality when it comes to scientific progress. Afterall, it's not science or progress that is bad, but the direction in which it is taken, by it's steerers.
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