As with any emerging science the focus tends to narrow and get more streamlined. As for IVF getting more popular, you and I both know how expensive the procedure is. It's not like plasma TV's getting cheaper, so the price of an IVF cycle will remain substantial IMO.
His Pompousness has valid points, I don't deny that. However, how he goes about making them is where I take exception. Of course, he cannot say the same thing about our arguments (having valid points).........or chooses not to.
Agree, though you have to cut the Cardinal some slack - he's got Church Doctrine to uphold.
As for being the right hand of God, well, there is much about the Catholic Church that needs reform before they can start speaking authoritatively about what is moral. They can say plenty about what is Biblical. Living it is another matter altogether.