America’s first IVF baby looks at her life ‘Under the Microscope’ [Video]

Former Boston Globe writer Elizabeth Carr has been in the spotlight more than once since her birth 42 years ago. Why? Because Elizabeth is the United States’ first baby born through the in vitro fertilization procedure, and the 15th in the world. And as she writes in her recently published book, “Under the Microscope: The USA’s First IVF Baby,” she has been in the media spotlight since she was three cells old. Carr joined GBH’s Henry Santoro in the studio to talk about her life, her book and new federal legislation on IVF procedures. The interview below has been slighted edited for clarity.

Henry Santoro:Let us not start in 1981. Let us start in 2024 — March 7, to be exact. You were a guest of honor at President Biden’s State of the Union address on Capitol Hill and you were invited by Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine. How and why did that come to …