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This Day In History, December 28th, 2021 – “Test – Tube Baby”


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It was just 40 years ago today, December 28, 1981 when the first ever in-vitro fertilization birth occurred in the United States. Though the process of this birth type had been around for a few years, especially in testing animals, this date marks the first for America. The baby, Elizabeth Jordan Carr, was born healthy at over five pounds. Sadly, there are many people in our world who cannot give birth normally, as was the case with Elizabeth’s mother, who had to have her fallopian tubes removed. Thanks to the work of Doctors Howard and Georgeanna Jones, the procedure of...

 

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