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...DIED. GEORGEANNA JONES, 92, one of the country's first reproductive endocrinologists; in Norfolk, Va. She and her husband Howard Jones started the life of the first U.S.-born "test tube" baby, Elizabeth J. Carr, on Dec. 28, 1981, through in-vitro fertilization...
Society has just begun to wrestle with the financial burden of assisted reproduction. "It takes courage and cash," says Dr. Georgeanna Jones, whose work with her husband, Dr. Howard Jones, in Norfolk, Va., produced the first IVF baby in the U.S. A single in vitro cycle can cost $6,000 to $8,000, a burden most medical plans are not eager to share. Nine states have passed laws requiring insurance companies to cover the cost of infertility treatments, but resistance in the remaining states is strong. The question, says Leroy Walters, at Georgetown University's Kennedy Institute of Ethics...
...everyone in the field is enthusiastic. Some professionals fear that these new techniques will only encourage women to delay pregnancy. "There is a time and place for everything," says Dr. Georgeanna Jones of the Jones Institute for Reproductive Medicine in Norfolk, Va. "Women should know that their eggs age. They need to plan for their families and careers so they can have children earlier." Most in vitro clinics are reluctant to accept patients over age 40. The reason is primarily practical: the success rate for such women is minimal, though donor eggs can certainly improve the odds. Natural childbearing...
...Risa and Steven York entered an in vitro fertilization program operated by the Howard and Georgeanna Jones Institute for Reproductive Medicine in Norfolk, Va. But three implants failed. The Yorks, who last year moved from New Jersey to California, asked the institute to ship their frozen embryo to a comparable facility at Los Angeles' Good Samaritan Hospital, where Dr. Richard Marrs was prepared to supervise its implantation. Much to the couple's surprise, Jones refused, arguing that the consent agreement signed by the Yorks gave them no rights to the embryo outside his institute's jurisdiction. In effect, Jones contended...
...happens, they were wrong. Says Gynecologist Howard Jones, who, together with his wife, Endocrinologist Georgeanna Seegar Jones, founded the first American in-vitro program at Norfolk in 1978: "It turns out that if you get the sperm to the egg quickly, most often you inhibit the process." According to Jones, the pioneers of IVF made so many wrong assumptions that "the birth of Louise Brown now seems like a fortunate coincidence...