• 60%
    1 vote
  • Rate this episode
    What did you think?
  • 992
    watchers
  • 1.3k
    plays
  • 4.1k
    collected
  • 5
    lists

American Experience: Season 19

19x04 Test Tube Babies
TV-PG

  • 2006-10-24T01:00:00Z on PBS
  • 55m
  • United States
  • English
  • Documentary
History of in vitro fertilization, traces IVF from an early success with rabbits to the present. Included: controversy and setbacks; the 1978 birth of Louise Joy Brown, the first IVF-born baby; the birth of America's first test-tube baby, Elizabeth Jordan Carr, in 1981. Also: comments from scientists, a couple involved in a lawsuit against a hospital.
Loading...