You're Right! On July 25, 1978, a blonde, blue-eyed, squalling little baby entered this world swaddled in news headlines. The Associated Press declared her a "truck driver's miracle child." Good Housekeeping magazine gasped that her in vitro birth was "the most extraordinary birth in human history." But University of Minnesota historian Elaine Tyler May remembers that Louise Brown's conception also provoked deep social fears of science gone amok. "If you look back to the way IVF was discussed in 1978, people were talking about human-animal hybrids, monstrous babies, eugenics, and all kinds of scary reproductive engineering," May said. "Eventually that whole discussion calmed down."