ivf seems fairly common. do you think people are under told the risk of cancer in this treatment than other conditions? >> guest: i think very often this idea that there hasn't been any scientific research kind of becomes -- it becomes articulated as, we have no proof that it causes cancer. >> host: the lack of research gets awfully interpreted as there is no risk. >> guest: exactly. >> host: you are saying common sense and experience in local wisdom and statistics show that that's not really true? >> guest: hormones have been related to cancer since the earliest 20th century. we know there's a link with massage and is hormones and cancer. this particular case the research has not been done to save ease exact hormones given in this particular way at these doses have been causal to cancer. what we do know is medical common sense that other kinds of very similar hormones have resulted in various types of cancers. >> host: the number one cause of death in the united states the cdc statistics as heart disease. nu

you talk a lot about ivf treatment for infertility. evidently there's a cancer risk their that many patients are not properly informed of? >> guest: yeah. i have a chapter on the idea in this book -- ivf in this book. i'm particularly interested in the question of egg donors. idf is a treatment that unfortunately we need, the industry has relied on donor eggs to increase the pregnancy rates enough to make the industry really worthwhile. so pregnancy rates hover at relatively small amount. eco-have an ivf commercial about 30% likely to get pregnant. a lot of people who can afford these treatments, which often are $20,000 or so, a little bit after the age of their fertility. so late '30s, early '40s when they decide this state in a month have their own children. and they depend on younger women to be a donors. now, there is a chance and not much research has been done in this area which is what makes it such an interesting example i think for what we do when we don't know what causes cancer, that these hormones have a link to cancer seve

right now, that is limited to how many you get in an ivf for siege or. 8, 10, 15, maybe 20 -- ivf procedure. maybe 20 with the current procedures. technique, it's unlimited. at 100.y couples stop they will have 100 embryos cleverly named 1-100. for each of those they will learn five categories of things. does this embryo have any really nasty early-onset disease like down's simba roam -- down's syndrome or sickle cell anemia? what about later on diseases that may not be quite so nasty? what about risks of alzheimer's, breast cancer, prostate cancer? category three will be blue eyes or brown? what hair color? what skin color? tall or short? lucky enough to have early grey hair like the silverback or relatives who are the leaders in their bands or male pattern baldness or somewhere in between? category four will be behavioral not just in the issues of violence, but the not asking for directions trait. we know what that is. that is the y chromosome. i don't think behavioral traits will be used because behavior is really complicated. i don't think we will be able to say this embryo, 2350 on the

it's that in order to do that, you have to do ivf. because if you conceive the old fashioned way, when an embryo is three days old, it's half way down one of the woman's two fallopian tubes. good luck trying to find it. you can see by ivf where it is at day three. it's where you put it. the p inspect the -- ivf is pain. i'm sure some of you have gone through it. i'm sure you know people who have gone through it. i should qualify that. like many unfair things. men are the genetic disadvantage. they are at the genetic advantage. no man has ever been hospitalized as a result of sperm donation. egg harvest is expensive, unpleasant, dangerous, 1% of the 200,000 american women every year go through it end up in the hospital. it hasn't happened from sperm harvest. as far as we know. life is unfair. goating eggs is the problem that has limited ivf. it's going it change. we will be able to stake stem cell and turn them in to liver cells, brain cells, and eggs and sperm. not the human embryonic stem cells you have heard about. a lot we can do i

will be preparing for the upcoming match the european renowned sportsmen such as manchester united for ivf hernandez did not get invited to the national team. ten of twenty three players were present american team which was coaefore he was appointed the chief coach of the national team but skilful ball players do not miss the finals of the word championship since nineteen ninety the first match of the mexicans in the new zealand's will be held in mexico city on nov thirteen. i know. i know street. what are you in the inning. chilling portrait fourth street. sadly the reception staff that was new and expanded h projects going. they never ask a book look at it. sharing the folks here a couple shoot straight at you you cannot make out what we want to for expanded to other. and all deceit is that it's time to decrease it and its concepts and also to have the energy produced as close to the client as possible. on to lunch and we are and preparing and who would be doing. she looks european energy projects on the other hand we needs. the stench of ice smaller energy sources in horror and yes the

i think that ivf is underlined concerns are very much valid and that is is is ensuring that consumers receive medical information the factory. the beak eyes if you start allowing inaccurate information enter the marketplace. five you start on misleading consumers you start. i've been letting servers go down paths where they they may really run into roadblocks store the rest of its risks of this sort of information getting into the hands of insurance companies or employ years the resulting free agent judicial treatment at all well we do have a federal law that genetic information on discrimination act which prevents employers and health insurers up from this using genetic information in the context of employment and health insurance however i we really don't know. and this is a large part of the concerned with these private companies like twenty three me they're starting to obtain i've genetic information really don't know how they secure that information how they use that information on there is no oversight. and so you really take your privacy. in your own hands when you deal with co

because we were unmarried and we did ivf they found a loophole in the statute to make me a sperm donor. they presented that they convinced the judge of that and i have never seen my son since. >> you have an agreement with her. she is alleging that oh, you never even changed a diaper and you didn't want to be part of gus' life. look at these pictures, you were part of gus' life for the first three years. you haven't seen him. and i believe it's over 10 months. how is this good for the child. some arcane loophole in the california law that's keeping a father away from his son? >> it's insane. there is laws keeping up with reproductive technology. extreme alienation happened to me. i had an x who wanted me to eliminate me from the child's life. so happened her family had enough money and got three law firms and managed to convince the judge. there is no such thing as a father's rights or a mother's rights. it's the child's right. and i have, as you have seen, i have pictures, videos, emails from every month of my child's life, none of which mattered because i was considered a donor by th

that is destructive ivf. that's easy that. the time being there is no government said that informs my son was mentioning. they are one of our discussion. should the formation of the cover and wait until as both these syria or shouldn't you be struck before the two issues here. the event of the shelf above the studio. all the problems with it. and everything. as i struggle with sin the united on in the gall to see and prizes was there on the design institute issues in what is on its promise that the two separate issue the election on one hand yes and syria on the other. yet opponents before we left the aussie own citizens to form a government which is independent from one of these coupons to use. we do not roll call vote was as well as the weekend in sepia but given his government official and that's why we are seeing that we want to do to move to form an independent government. not that involve the use of online news in the foster mom last weekend and this week. we do not cover efficiency as well as the lincoln city. instead h

back in september we brought you our born today series that included a live ivf procedure. dr.g couple that invited us into their lives. we first met them in st. louis and we have followed their journey toward parenthood. after so many years of trying for a baby without success, this morning, we have an exciting update. >> i want to be positive and i think that we're going to have twins and i think that they're going to have red hair and blue eyes. >> reporter: after being challenged with fertility issues for almost a decade, 33-year-old jessica and her fiancee derrick are a heartbeat away from starting their family. >> that's really the moment of conception. >> reporter: that moment, captured on live tv for the very first time, in vitro fertilization. >> this is now a fertilized egg. >> reporter: a fertility expert at st. luke's hospital in st. louis performed the procedure and days later transferred two embryos into jessica's uterus. ten days later, they got the results. >> well, guess what, your pregnancy test is positive. it's amazing. we have a baby in there. >> reporter:

as marriage equality rights expand and more same-sex male couples need reproductive capacity through ivfsame coalition this which has done this extraordinary work of changing the american landscape over the course of the past decade will show up and say, i want my gay men who now have the rights to marry who be will begin to have the rights to want to have families so show up on this fight because it will impact men and their ability to have families here. come with us. be allies. >> having this conversation about personhood. i think again, back in the 1860s. we have fetal personhood. can we please have female personhood? >> yes. thanks so much to erin carmon and to laura flanders. coming up, the legacy of slavery in places where you may least expect it. but before that i've still got a letter to send. [ male announcer ] welcome back all the sweet things your family loves with 0-calorie monk fruit in the raw. it's made with the natural, vine-ripened sweetness of fruit, so you can serve up deliciously sweet treats without all the sugar. raw natural sweetness, raw natural success. but then

and termination services, it sometimes shrinks the coalition, but if we talk about tubal ligation and ivfervices that are legal, is that part of how we can make this push? >> in fact, we know that the vast majority of american women used contraception at some point in their life. >> even the catholic ones. >> exactly. and even contraception is prohibited in the directives for catholic health care services. if you put a big sign up that says no birth control here, do you think many patients would come? no. women would seek services elsewhere because it is a needed fundamental service for women. part of it also i think is about being open and willing to be in a dialogue about what services women need. >> thank you. this has been something we're closely following and a deep question of ak snesz many different ways. thanks to lois utley. dr. stiltner is going to stay with us. up next, the other website, the other most incredibly important this thing has to work or the whole thing fails website. >>> but first, i want to bring you up to date on one of the strongest storms to ever make landfall

they're paying for ivf and it's fuelling economic growth. >> it's interesting how they want to choose blonde -- >> yes. >> you know, you can sort of mess with -- >> yes. >> mother nature. >> you can choose the gender and who is going to be your egg donor. >> expensive proposition. >> these are wealthy chinese families doing this. >> fascinating story. thank you. >> coming up, the world's first floating city. how many passengers will fit on this massive cruise ship and why you won't have to board from the port of call. but up next, we'll check in with mario in the orange room. he has jimmy fallon's latest mash up video. a holiday spoof that's going viral. but first, these messages. my mother and my grandmother are very old fashioned. i think we both are clean freaks. i used to scrub the floor on my knees. [ daughter ] i've mastered the art of foot cleaning. oh, boy. oh, boy. oh, boy. [ carmel ] that drives me nuts. it gives me anxiety just thinking about how crazy they get. [ doorbell rings ] [ daughter ] oh, wow. [ carmel ] swiffer wetjet. you guys should try this. it's so easy. oh, m

they tried ivf with no success. and then about five years ago they made the decision to adopt.e bedroom, bring them in the house. you know? you are giving out that information. >> paperwork, then home visits, finger prints, background checks. their lives became an open book. literally. they made this photo book for prospective birth parents. >> you're marketing yourself. >> this is a dear birth letter. >> they compare it to making a profile for a dating website. >> we would get a phone call and they would say that, okay, you're one of four -- they picked you. they picked three other families too. >> that's not an uncommon experience. more than two million families are actively seeking to adopt. adoption expert chuck johnson says many parents spend more time researching plumbers than the adoption agency they'll choose, which can lead to problems. >> we're all aware and more increasingly more aware of the potential scams or of countries closing the international adoption or of parents changing their mind. >> a mother sent them ultrasound pictures of the baby they wanted, but a fe