europe's highest court has moved to protect human embryos from -- protect human embryos, forbidding the planning of any process that destroys a human embryo. this has deeper implications for medical research. they ruled that destroying embryos undermines the dignity of human life. the case was referred from a german court and concerned a researcher in bonn who was using stem cells from embryos imported from israel. >> researchers believe these stem cells hold the key for treatments of disease like alzheimer's and parkinson's. when they are extracted from the cells, the embryos are destroyed. when they can be considered human embryos? that question was at the center of a legal suit. the european court handed down this definition. >> each human egg cell at the point of fertilization, each on fertilized human egg cell into which a mature human cell has been transplanted, each on fertilized human egg cell might start developing and dividing constitutes a human embryo. >> that means researchers cannot patent am really stem cells either. greenpeace, which challenged the pact in germany, haile

clinics, and creating the new cells destroys the embryos, prompting intense controversy about the possibilities contained in a petri dish. one key question was how federal funding for the controversial new research might impact diseases like parkinson's. >> will the elimination of the restriction on stem cells be a significant factor in expediting solving parkinson's? >> yes, it certainly will. it will certainly lead to a more rapid solution to this problem. >> narrator: in the fall of 1999, senator arlen specter convened a hearing on parkinson's. >> with a focused effort, the pieces are in front of us, the science is there. i think we can make major progress towards this disease. >> narrator: a series of experts testified about the scientific promise of stem cells. >> and perhaps cure this disease. >> narrator: hope was running high that a cure was now within reach. >> i think we are close to solving-- and i mean the word solving-- parkinson's disease. with a little bit of skill and luck, five to ten years is not unrealistic. >> narrator: that timeline had a particular impact on

her clinic implants embryos in surrogates she recruits and pays around $7,000 for a pregnancy carried to term. biological parents come from across india and around the world. this woman came from colorado to pick up her baby girl namedy is renity born four weeks premature, but after a week in intensive care, she was ready to be discharged. y is renity's 46-year-old mother traveled with her 9-year-old son and tried unsuccessfully to conceive. sur gassy was her last hope and india her first choice. the cost is $10 to $15,000 and a fraction of what it is in the united states. in america she added sur gassy contracts are not always air-tight. >> you can sign a hundred documents. it doesn't matter. if that surrogate chang her mind, she can sue you for that child. often times she will win. coming here to india, these women don't want my child. it's very cut and dry. they do not want my ild. they want my money. that is just fine with me. >> it's not fine with everyone. >> the contracts usually written to be blunt protect the wealthy people who are commissiing the baby. if the woman suffers a

you know, i could foresee that there might be some people who would want to transfer their embryos out of state. that could very well happen for purposes of storage. and certainly there would be nothing to prevent people from doing that. >> this measure has won support from both of mississippi's gubernatorial candidates. the democratic candidate though says he does have some concern about ramifications on birth control and ivf. mary snow, cnn new york. >> fascinating stuff. the vote is scheduled for november 8th. that's election day for the next governor of mississippi. richard herman is with me a criminal defense attorney. so this proposed amendment goes beyond abortion. certainly would impact birth control, fertility, treatment as we heard right there from mary. so this could potentially be precedent-setting if, indeed, it is passed? >> don't know what kind of cool aid is being distributed in mississippi but here a fertilized seg deemed a person. if you're responsible for killing that egg you're charged with murder. that's how the statute reads. >> how did it come to this. people can

chambers arranged for surrogates to be impregnated with donated embryos. eriksson falsified documents in san diego superior court to close the transaction. special agenting in charge keith slaughter. >> trafficking in human life without having a parent ahead of time is really i think quite troubling. it crosses that line i think from the surrogate adoption type world to simply dealing with children as commodities. >> reporter: officials say they pocketed millions from their scheme which produced about a dozen babies. authorities say there could be more. all three women who ran the ring refused cnn's repeated requests for comment and they pleaded guilty to charges of wire fraud and conspiracy. they face a maximum of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. law enforcement officials say in exchange for their guilty pleas, they're recommending home detention for the three women instead of serving time in jail. all three will have to pay restitution. even though officials successfully shut down the illegal operation, heather was still pregnant with no parents

a major step in the world of stem cell research and we have details on the use of a cloned human embryod in the medical watch and later in lunch break we' from the new york stock exchange with your on the money report. the world mourns the loss of steve jobs he simplified the most high-tech of products and revolutionize the technology industry he built apple into one of the most highly respected companies in the world and the investment community remembers him today shares of apple stock are slightly lower at this moment but shares had surged 9000% from his return to apple back in 1997 it is one of the big stories in market value terms ... the markets are bracing for the upcoming and employment reports and jobs data right now we still hover at 9.1% and unemployment claims for benefits rose last week ... another bake market story in retail sales sales slumped at j.c. penney by increased at a target still ahead, sarah palin sets her intentions straight for 2012 and the black hawks legend stan mikita joins us on set to part of my job as a diabetes educator is teaching my patients how to st

chambers arranged for surrogates to be impregnated with donated embryos.preyed on desperate parents. erikson falsified documents in san diego superior court to close the transaction. fbi special agent in charge keith slotter. >> trafficking in human life without having a parent ahead of time is really, i think, quite troubling. it crosses that line, i think, from the surrogate adoption-type world to simply dealing with children as commodities. >> reporter: officials say they pocketed millions from their scheme which produced about a dozen babies. authorities say there could be more. all three women who ran the ring refused cnn's repeated requests for comment and they pleaded guilty to charges of wire fraud and conspiracy. they face a maximum of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. law enforcement officials say in exchange for their guilty pleas, they're recommending home detention for the three women instead of serving time in jail. all three will have to pay restitution. even though officials successfully shut down the illegal operation, heather was

soil the illegal resource-sucking parasite inside them that's been stealing jobs from american embryosinstantly transformed into the greatest, bestest, freest baby in the world. you are so cute. yes, you are. who deserves a free education? you do. you do. you see, i love this baby because he is an american. but if that baby were born in mexico, hey, speak-a da englais, goo-goo, ga-ga. now luckily some states have found a great way to discourage these women from coming here and squatting out a freedom fetus. recently in arizona and tennessee, three pregnant women were arrested for not having proper identification and forced to give birth shackled to their hospital beds without their husbands in the presence of prison guards. so a quick tip for the olive skinned ladies when they're at ten centimeters and fully effaced, you're going to want to find your drivers license. unfortunately when confronted with a woman in labor, some law enforcement lax the authority to slap them in four-point restraints because sadly this is legal in only 36 states. folks, i say this is dangerous. we have to ma

for us, germany has something living embryo. >> he can't help train afghan troops. survey shows 62% of people want to leave afghanistan, but he believes that german troops are doing important job there establishing peace. >> when we have done our best helping to get afghanistan on the right track, we will now we have done the right thing. dodge of the role of german soldiers have changed over time. now they have to be able to deal with very real threats of stationed abroad. >> close your eyes and the full the mask off. >> this is nuclear, biological, and chemical warfare training. >> everyone knows they can be posted to afghanistan tomorrow or next week. everyone takes it much more seriously than they used to. >> missions have made the job of the officer more dangerous. >> it is 60 centimeters from there to there. it is essential not to make it less than 16. >> an area with a high proportion of immigrants, they are helping the students make wooden furniture. the project gives them a chance to try out different skills and help them make career choices. many people in

researchers in new york say for the very first time, they've used cloning techniques to create human embryos and produce viable stem cells. the breakthrough could be a step toward the long-sought goal of creating stem cells used to treat major diseases because they wouldn't be rejected by patients' immune systems. >>> nasa says its kepler space telescope has found a three-planet system floating around a star similar to our sun. one of the planets is being described as a super earth that's twice the size of our own planet. >>> and one of europe's wealthiest art accurates, spain's 85-year-old duchess of alba married a civil servant 25 years her junior. she had to win her children's approval by dividing her $4.6 billion fortune among them. >>> here's an early look at how wall street will start the day. the dow opens 10939 after rising 131 points yesterday. the s&p grew 20 points. the nasdaq climbed 55. >>> taking a look at overseas trading this morning, the nikkei added 139 points while in hong kong the hang seng went up 922. >>> as europe struggles to contain its widening debt crisis, stocks a

the medical definition of pregnancy is when an embryo implants, when a fertilized eggplants inside of have a fertilized egg egg and it doesn't implant naturally. and they will need to cause more fertilized eggs. they believe that freezing embryos is murder because 50% may not stur vooif and discarding them is murder, so that would drastically reduce the pregnancy rate. as for miscarriages, if it is looks like it is due to child negligence, negligence of the mother, maybe she had a glass of alcohol or whatever it is. maybe she talked ath about not wanting to be pregnant. >> a homicide investigation. >> yes. >> irin carmon thank you for joining me sglont thank you very much, lawrence. >>> and the hardest working man in show business, brian williams is joining me. we might just get him to sing and dance. [husband:] getting cold out here. [wife:] in here too. we need more affordable energy in this country. we need to protect the environment. what about the economy? what about our planet? [announcer:] at conocophillips, we're helping power america's economy with cleaner, affordable natural

. >> in other news, europe's highest courts has ruled that embryos cannot be patented. it could have major implication for medicine. scientists say the decision may impede european research or drive research abroad. a car bomb has killed four people in di shoe. foreign ministered -- people in mogadishu. kenya are fighting al sha bat militants. >> new measures to promote chinese values around the world. the leadership called for a new push to energize state-owned media. >> police in the united states city of philadelphia say they have arrested three people, imprisoned four people with a learning difficulties in a squa led room. they collected their social security checks. >> a grim face detective opens the door to a tiny terrifying world. in this cramped terrifying space vulnerable adults were kept prisoner without food, surrounded by their own waste. they barely had room to stand up. one of the men were chained to a boiler. they've been locked up with dogs and just a single bottle of drink. here are three of the alleged victims given local television a graphic account o

one egg, one embryo, one baby. if you look at what's happening in germany right now, they are going back to one egg, you know, one embryo, one baby. what that suggests to me is that there is a debate, even within the in vitro fertilization medical community about life, when it, in fact, begins, and whether or not we should be using business models or whether we should recognize when human life begins and what we do is fight to give that human life every possibility of blossoming into a full, productive life. >> you know what i think? i've let you give your position. i think this is what we call in football an end run. i believe whatever else it is, it is an attempt to outlaw, ban the right of a woman to have an abortion, no matter what else you're talking about here, that will be the implication, under the law. there's no other reason to go this direction. >> chris, chris -- >> that's why you're doing it. >> chris, i've been engaged for four decades in the pro-life movement. i am not a doctor -- >> and that's what

and that judges or the legislature will take measures to either prevent the freezing of embryos or to eggs that can be fertilized and could mandate the number of embryos that we have to transfer to our patients. >> what does this mean for any possible criminality against the work that you do? >> again, that's a fear. but it's something that we don't know. it's really the uncertainty around how this amendment would be applied towards doctors that is leading medical organizations in the state, like the mississippi state medical association, the mississippi nurses' association to oppose this measure because of the precarious situation it could put doctors in from really all aspects of offering women's healthcare. >> doctor, the people who -- they say the opponents are using scare tactics, though. they believe that this measure would help protect women and babies. when you hear that, what is your response? >> well, i am scared. i don't think i'm using a scare tactic. i think i'm presenting the facts that scare me and those facts are that i work diligently to help couples who are very dete

europe has ruled that stem cells from human embryos cannot be patented in a case that could have major implications. the decision may impede european research into the use of stem cell therapies or drive research abroad. a car bomb has exploded outside of mogadishu killings four people including the suicide bomber. kenya's defense and foreign ministers were holding talks. kenya sent troops to somalia on sunday to fight the militants that it blames for recent kidnappings. here in the united states, a 51-year-old woman has been charged with kidnapping four metropolitan tallly handicapped individuals who were found in the basement of a house. they is alleged to have kept them in an underground space while they claimed their social security checks. the f.b.i. is investigating where there mave additional victims in other states. reporting from washington, here's steve kingston. >> a grim-faced detective opens the door to a tiny world, in this underground space, vulnerable adults were kept prisoner without food, without light and surrounded by their own waste. they barely had room to stand u

. >>> researchers in new york say they've used cloning techniques to create human embryos and produceiable stem-cells. the breakthrough could be a step to the goal of creating stem-cells to treat major diseases because they wouldn't be rejected by patients' immune systems. >>> nasa says its keppler space telescope has found a three-planet system floating around a star similar to our sun. one of the planets is being described as a superearth, twice the size of our own planet. >>> and one of europe's healthiest aristocrats, spain's 85-year-old duchess of alba has married a civil servant 25 years her senior. she had to win her children's approval by dividing her $4.6 billion fortune among them. >>> money will buy that. here's your first look at how wall street will kick off the day. the dow opens at 10,939 after rising 131 points yesterday. the s&p grew 20 and the nasdaq grew 55. in tokyo, the nikkei added 139 points. while in hong kong, the hang seng went up 922. >>> as europe struggles to contain the debt crisis, stocks are likely to continue their wild swings. for now, the sentiment o

the country you know last week i sat here and i talked about how this has the potential to be the embryo of a very broad fightback movement and i think they just in the past seven days it's actually grown. it's grown a lot and i think this is very exciting a question for the n.y.p.d. is did you really think that it was a tactically intelligent decision to arrest seven hundred people on the brooklyn bridge perhaps they thought that they were going to suppress the will of the people by doing that but i think it actually had the opposite effect i think that what we saw for example in the jails of new york on saturday night we turn those into organizing centers just like prisons are currently across this country can be turned into schools of revolution so i don't think that it suppresses anybody's will if anything it made the people more militant who are involved in occupy wall street and it be those across the country who may be beginning to see this is a way that they can get involved in fighting for change so you know what maybe it's time for me to stand up as well it's interesting and ju

human embryos created in laboratories overseas by people looking to make money. how much money have you given the lawyers? >> i had only given them 100 and thousand dollars and that was not a whole amount. >> and syrups as pawn. >> today at 4:00 on abc 7. [ snoring ] ththunder crasass ] [ snoring ] [ thunder crashes ] [ snoring ] [ male announcer ] vicks nyquil cold and flu. the nighttime, sniffling sneezing, coughing aching, fever, best sleep you ever got with a cold... medicine. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] vicks dayquil. defeats 5 colo & flu symptoms. ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] at the safeway pharmacy you can get a flu shot from an experienced professional. we've giveíe over 5 million flu shots over the last 10 years. [ male announcer ] hey, but who's counting? get your flu shot from a specialist you can trust. at the safeway pharmacy. [ male announcer ] at t safeway pharmacy you can get your flu shot. and you'll get a bonus. you get 10% off your groceries. [ male announcer ] save 10% on your groceries when you get a flu shot. that should make you feel better alread

human embryos being created in labs overseas with people making money. >> how much money?i have only given one other $10,000 than other circuits become unwitting pawns. >> i know if we were in trouble, we knew nothing of this scheme. >> an eye opening investigation at 4:00 today. >> welcome back. >>> we have the benefits of breast feeding. a new british survey shows breast-fed babies have higher i.q.'s better health. they are less likely to have weight or behavioral problems. the researchers say the two-year test proves doctor should encourage every mother to breastfeed for longer than just a few weeks. >>> an unlikely leader stepping forward in the battle against hunger among american children. >> her name is lily. and she is the new addition to the sesame street family. they introduced the character as a child of a family struggling to put food on the table. an estimated 70 million americans are living without enough food >>> celebrities, politicians and other well- wishers gathered last night to honor the civil rights leader. stevie wonder, jennifer holliday and people

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you know, i could forsee that there might be some people who would want to transfer their embryos outt could very well happen for purposes of storage. and certainly, there would be nothing to prevent people from doing that. >> one fertility doctor we spoke with in mississippi says he's been getting a lot of calls from patients who are very concerned if this passes. it's won support for both candidates for governor, the democratic governor says he has concerned about ramifications for birth control and ivf. >> thank you. let's go back to jack. >> the question this hour is how much confidence do you have in the supercommittee to do anything meaningful about the national debt in the next four weeks? that's how much time they have left. warren writes -- and that was at the heart of president reagan's script. in short, the super committee is a super waste of time and nothing will come of it. gary in michigan writes -- kristen on facebook writes -- tom in pennsylvania writes -- bit in alabama writes -- em writes -- you want to read more about this, go to my blog, cnn.com/caffer cnn.com/caff