'My life gives people hope': America's first IVF baby calls for 手続き to be 保護するd after Alabama 判決，裁定, 説 she 'wouldn't be here without it'

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America's first IVF baby is fighting to 保護する the 手続き まっただ中に a 最高裁判所 決定／判定勝ち（する） in Alabama that has 宣言するd frozen embryos to be children.?

Elizabeth Carr, 42, was born 経由で in vitro fertilization (IVF) in Virginia on December 28, 1981, after doctors had told her mother, Judith, that she wouldn't be able to have 生物学の children.?

Ms Carr's birth attracted so much attention that 武装した guards stood outside of Judith's hospital room. When she became 妊娠している 自然に with her now 13-year-old son in 2010, doctors closely 監視するd her pregnancy.

Now, more than 40 years after her historic birth, Ms Carr is 勧めるing 国会議員s to pull 支援する on the Alabama 最高裁判所's 判決，裁定 last month that embryos should be considered children.

The move has led two major clinics in the 明言する／公表する to 停止（させる） the 手続き over 恐れるs that doctors could be 起訴するd for destroying embryos over 'wrongful death.'?

Elizabeth Carr, 42, was the first American born 経由で IVF after doctors told her mother that she couldn't have 生物学の children

Ms Carr's birth led to 全国的な ファンファーレ／誇示. Now, she is working to 保護する IVF 接近 in the 中央 of Alabama's 最近の 最高裁判所 判決，裁定, which considered embryos chidren. Pictured here is Ms Carr as a child at a news 会議／協議会 in the 1980s

'My life gives people hope,' Ms Carr told the 塀で囲む Street 定期刊行物. 'If my mother had not been told by her doctor about IVF, I would not be here.'?

上院議員 Tim Kaine, a 民主主義者 from Virginia, also 招待するd her to speak at 大統領 Joe Biden's 明言する／公表する of the Union 演説（する）／住所 Thursday. Kaine 明言する／公表するd that 連邦の 法律制定 支援 IVF 接近 would 'enable the Elizabeth Carrs of the world to continue to be born.'?

IVF is a 過程 in which eggs retrieved from the woman’s ovaries are fertilized outside of the womb and implanted in the woman’s uterus. Doctors typically fertilize as many healthy eggs as possible to give the woman the best chance of having a baby; 未使用の fertilized eggs are frozen and 蓄える／店d.

結局, the 未使用の embryos are discarded, though when depends on the clinic and what the 患者 needs.

The 前例のない 判決，裁定 by Alabama's 最高裁判所 is the first to endow 十分な human 権利s to an organism so soon after fertilization and opens the door to 類似の 判決，裁定s in other 明言する／公表するs.?

The 判決，裁定 could open the door to wrongful death 訴訟s in all 事例／患者s where embryos do not 生き残る 存在 雪解けd and transferred to the uterus, 潜在的に sending doctors in the 明言する／公表する 逃げるing どこかよそで to practice 薬／医学.

IVF 支持するs have 警告するd for years that 制限s on IVF were a possible repercussion of the 2022 最高裁判所 決定／判定勝ち（する） to overturn 魚の卵 v. Wade.

Barbara Collura, CEO of 解決する: The 国家の Infertility 協会, said: ‘This is 正確に／まさに what we have been fearful of and worried about where it was 長，率いるing.

‘We are 極端に 関心d that this is now going to happen in other 明言する／公表するs.’

Ms Collura 追加するd that the 控訴 did not 宣言する IVF 違法な, ‘But it did say the embryos that are 扱うd in an IVF 過程 are children. Are people. And that begs the question: Can we 凍結する a human? And if we 凍結する a human, who is liable for that?’

The 判決，裁定 is 限られた／立憲的な to Alabama, but reproductive 権利s 支持するs have 警告するd of a 可能性のある 支配 影響 どこかよそで.

Ms Carr's birth attracted so much ファンファーレ／誇示 that 武装した guards stood outside of Judith's hospital room. When she became 妊娠している 自然に with her now 13-year-old son in 2010 (pictured here), doctors closely 監視するd her pregnancy.

The 最高潮の場面d 明言する／公表するs have 法律s on the 調書をとる／予約するs 規定するing that life begins at the moment of fertilization. In Louisiana, the intentional 処分 or 破壊 of a human embryo is 違法な

Kelly Baden, 副大統領 for Public 政策 at the abortion 権利s group Guttmacher 学校／設ける, told DailyMail.com: ‘This 過激な 概念 of personhood has long been 支持する／優勝者d by the anti-abortion movement and is now one step closer to becoming reality.

‘The 可能性のある 衝撃s are 広大な―your ability to build a family, continue a healthy pregnancy, or choose abortion are all connected; judicial and 法律を制定する attacks on one 衝撃 all.’

Which 明言する／公表する will come next remains to be seen. A handful of others, 含むing Louisiana, Arkansas, Kentucky, and Missouri, have 法律s on the 調書をとる／予約するs that say human life begins at the moment of fertilization and give those embryos the same 権利s as a person.?

In Louisiana, it is 違法な to 配置する／処分する／したい気持ちにさせる of embryos, which are called ‘juridical persons.’ In Kansas, 国会議員s introduced a 法案 last year that would 設立する a new 罪，犯罪 of ‘unlawful 破壊 of a fertilized embryo.’

An 概算の 1.5 million embryos 現在／一般に sit in cryogenic nurseries across the US.

With possible consequences for discarding the 未使用の embryos, doctors may be 閉めだした from fertilizing eggs that won’t 結局最後にはーなる 存在 implanted. This winnows 負かす／撃墜する a woman’s chances of getting 妊娠している.

Ms Carr's mother, Judith, looks at her daughter after she was born on December 28, 1981

The University of Alabama at Birmingham's hospital system became the first in the 明言する／公表する to pause its IVF 治療s に引き続いて a 判決，裁定 last week that 決定するd frozen embryos are 見解（をとる）d under the 法律 as children

Doctors typically fertilize as many eggs as they can retrieve during a cycle of IVF but, under possible civil 刑罰，罰則, may only feel comfortable fertilizing a couple of eggs, 軍隊ing women to を受ける several 一連の会議、交渉／完成するs of 高くつく／犠牲の大きい egg retrievals to 達成する the same pregnancy 率 that they were trying to 達成する with one retrieval.

Providers may also be 軍隊d to leave the 明言する／公表する for 恐れる of 存在 告訴するd or because of the high cost of 蓄える／店ing 超過 embryos. IVF 患者s also have to 支払う／賃金 料金s to 蓄える／店 embryos, in 量s 範囲ing from $350 to $1,000 per year.

Ms Carr leads public relations and 患者 advocacy at Genomic 予測, which sells genetics 実験（する）s to 審査する embryos for 確かな health 条件s.?

READ MORE: Women in red 明言する／公表するs begin moving frozen embryos out-of-明言する／公表する まっただ中に 恐れるs about Alabama's 法廷，裁判所 判決，裁定 that embryos are children

に引き続いて a 最近の 法廷，裁判所 決定／判定勝ち（する） in Alabama that 支配するd frozen embryos are children, women in red 明言する／公表するs have begun transferring theirs to 場所s that have より小数の 制限s on reproductive healthcare.?

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The company also sells a 実験（する） to 予報する how likely a 未来 child is to develop 条件s like heart 病気, schizophrenia, 癌, and 糖尿病.?

Alabama doctors have been fielding calls from nervous 患者s like Gabby Goidel, 26, who chose to try in vitro fertilization after several miscarriages 予定 to unexplained genetic infertility.

She 選ぶd for IVF?because the 過程 許すs doctors to 実験（する） embryos for? abnormalities and Ms Goidel believes it wouldn't be fair on her or a child to carry an unviable fetus that could miscarry or be born with 厳しい health 問題／発行するs.

Ms Goidel said she was filled with dread when she heard the news.

She told NBC News: ‘Most of our embryos are not going to be genetically normal.

‘My hope would be that we could let those embryos 自然に pass, but now it’s, “Do we have to save them?” I don’t やむを得ず want to implant a child that I know is going to miscarry.’

Women in red 明言する／公表するs have also begun moving their frozen embryos out of 明言する／公表する over the 判決，裁定.?

Amanda Zurawski, 36 of?Texas,?has chosen to move her frozen embryos out of the 明言する／公表する for 恐れる 国会議員s could follow Alabama’s lead and 封鎖する her from starting a family on her 条件.

Ms Zurawski said the 過程 of IVF is 苦悩-inducing enough on its own, but the 判決，裁定 and その後の 終結 of some clinics in Alabama have 追加するd ‘another 層 of 恐れる and 苦悩.'

Zurawski is one of the lead 原告／提訴人s in a 訴訟 主張するing that Texas’ abortion 禁止（する） 危うくするd her life when, at 18 weeks 妊娠している in 2022, she went into septic shock and nearly died.?

Doctors 辞退するd to 成し遂げる an abortion because the fetus still had a heartbeat. In Texas, all abortions are banned with the exception of instances to save the life of the mother.?

Alabama-native?Gabby Goidel 選ぶd for IVF because of an unexplained genetic fertility problem. But she is now 関心d about the 衝撃 that the Alabama 判決，裁定 will have on her chances of getting 妊娠している

Amanda Zurawski, 36 of Texas [pictured 権利 with her husband] has chosen to move her frozen embryos out of the 明言する／公表する for 恐れる that her 明言する／公表する could follow Alabama ’s lead and 封鎖する her from starting a family on her 条件

The experience led her to try IVF and hopefully have a baby 経由で a surrogate after doctors told her she could not carry a baby to 称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語.?

But the 合法的な landscape in Texas, coupled with 恐れる that followed Alabama’s 法廷，裁判所 判決，裁定, 納得させるd her and her husband to look to other 明言する／公表するs to 蓄える／店 the embryos.

Ms Zurawski, who spoke to NBC News, said: ‘It’s 絶対 terrifying.

‘But it’s also so infuriating because the same people who support the 禁止（する）s that nearly killed me are also in the same （軍の）野営地，陣営 who are now trying to make it harder for people like me to have a family.’

Ms Carr said that 患者s should be able to know all of their 選択s about IVF and genetic 実験（する）s and decide for themselves.??

'How do I explain my life?' she said.??