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On this Day in History: Birth of Elizabeth Jordan Carr, 1981

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.

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3 comments for “On this Day in History: Birth of Elizabeth Jordan Carr, 1981”

  1. Well, something went wrong if she grew up to be a jounalist. lol!

    Posted by Anonymous | December 28, 2006, 11:31 am
  2. 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.

    Posted by Preston | December 28, 2006, 1:37 pm
  3. 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.

    Posted by Robbie | December 28, 2006, 1:55 pm

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