The first American test-tube baby, Elizabeth Jordan Carr, turned 25-years old today.
Carr was born on Dec. 28, 1981, three years after the world’s first test-tube baby, Louise Brown, was born in England. About a million test-tube babies have been born since.
Today Carr is a graduate of Simmons College in Boston, MA, and works as a journalist for a newspaper in Maine.
I was listening to a Christian radio station over Christmas and heard a piece on IVF. It sounds like the Christian right is about to begin demonizing artificial fertilization techniques as ‘abusive’ to the children produced.
I’ll admit that it marks a consistant position for the Christian right to oppose fertilization techniques that will lead to the destruction of excess blastocysts but if they bring this campaign against fertility treatments to a wider audience I have to think they will be dooming themselves to a marginal place in American politics.
I agree Preston. I think the advances made in IVF as well as other fertility treatments are truly stunning and miraculous advancements in medical technology.
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Well, something went wrong if she grew up to be a jounalist. lol!
Left by Anonymous on December 28th, 2006 at 11:31 am