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The first baby conceived by in vitro fertilization is born in the U.S.
Date: 1981
Genetics
Reproductive health/reproductive rights
Medical health technology
After the world's first "test tube" baby was born in England in 1978, the first baby born via in vitro fertilization (IVF) in the U.S. is born two years later: Elizabeth Jordan Carr in Norfolk, Virginia.
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