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baby to be born in the united states conceived outside the human body. conception occurred in a petri dish. made headlines around the world and launched the modern day fertility industry in the u.s. since elizabeth s birth, secretaries at the eastern virginia medical centers in vitro clinic have received between 600 and 700 phone calls from couples wanting to join the waiting list. last december, elizabeth celebrated her 40th birthday. according to the most recently cdc statistics, an estimated one in six couples without children are infertile. it s no wonder that the number of people using assisted reproductive technology to expand their families has doubled over the past decade. i know what it s like. my husband and i tried for three years to have a child. two miscarriages and three rounds of failed ivf cycles later, i was emotionally devastated. until 2005 when ivf worked and my twins were born. and 13 months later, the bigger shocker, i was pregnant with my th ....
Responding to that suffering is also big business. and that business is booming. as women are giving birth later, the median age in the u.s. has risen to 30. that s three years older than it was three decades ago. and the fertility field continues to expand by helping all kinds of families. this really is the medicine of miracles. you know, it fills empty cribs. it frees families from terrible diseases. and it s not only different sex couples who struggle conceiving. it s also lgbtq couples and single people. but with all the incredible success stories, there are also tragic stories. a couple is suing after an embryo mixup ended up with them giving birth to a stranger s child. a fertility clinic mistakenly implanted their embryo into another woman. ....