I’m profoundly ageist when it comes to me... If I wasn’t broke, I’d be having more plastic surgery, writes Terry Prone

THE woman who was the world’s first test-tube baby said yesterday it was “fantastic” that a British scientist who helped bring her into the world had been awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine.

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IN her letter (December 21), Kathy Synott writes passionately about the recent Supreme Court decision on human embryos, calling it “a betrayal of the Irish people”. She talks very theoretically about the grand issues involved and invokes the name of Louise Brown, the first IVF child.

IN support of Dana Rosemary Scallon’s letter (Irish Examiner, Oct 31), and the bishop’s plea to the Taoiseach, I wish to draw attention to some aspects of the scientific dishonesty that is being propagated in an endeavour to hoodwink people into believing that embryonic stem cell research is necessary and imperative for human welfare.