America’s First IVF Baby Is Fighting for the Treatment That Gave Her Life

Elizabeth Carr is working at the forefronts of science and politics that remain unsettled

Reporter: Amy Dockser Marcus | Photo Editor: Chase Gaewski

Elizabeth Carr owns a locket she was gifted from the doctors at the fertility clinic in Virginia where she was born.

Elizabeth Carr appeared on the cover of Life Magazine when she was a baby.

Elizabeth Carr has always been a living symbol of fertility technology’s possibilities. Now she is the face of its challenges.