ivf is not mandatory under the act, so many insurance policies don't cover it. in terms of christian science practice that's ordinarily not covered under health insurance policies, and if it were, and if there were one more coverage, people were not excluded from ordinary practitioners. >> but the affordable care act requires in the case of the christian scientist, it lays out the benefits that have to be clued in a plan. if you say look, those are just against my religion, i don't want those things provided to my employees. does this decision allow you, give you a platform for that position? >> i think a platform, yes. a likely winning platform or probably platform that would be acted on, i think no. i say no because contraception and birth control rather uniqu uniquely among medical services is one where you have theologies that oppose not just themselves using it, but others using it. there is a concern about others behaving sinfully or immorally where people who are against vaccinations or blood transfusions or other kinds of practices typically say don't fo

but at over 44 an ivf success rate is about 1.1%.$30,000, $40,000 if you know it is 1%, you may make different choices. >> if you hear those are your odds of surviving cancer, you would be very depressed. made that statement about ivf. >> so, we talk about, i want to talk about same-sex couples in a moment. feminism. why is it we still need feminism. oh, this is one of those scare tactics to get women to go have their babies in their 20s right because all of a sudden you're not going to be able to. >> people mistakenly blame feminism for the phenomenon of delaying motherhood. but really it is that nobody is to blame. advances in feminism dovetail with reproductive medicine. the first ivf baby was born in 1978. that's when feminism was coming into its own. i feel like women were encouraged to delay motherhood and pursue their careers and ambitions and it's not feminism's fault. but i feel like we're at this critical juncture where women were the guinea pigs for testing the limits, we're hitting our 40s and realizing that maybe some of

so if the child that grows up from this ivf egg has problems they are not genetically related to the birth mother. they have to be related to the birth mother environment in the womb she provided for this egg. that was the bases. they looked at birth weight of the baby and behavioral problems. the motivation was behavioral problems if the mother smokes. what they found was there was no association with the behavioral problems and the smoking. so that was genetic. that was determined by the birth mother of the egg. i mean the genetic mother of this egg. but there was a small effect on birth weight. people that smoke tend to have babies smaller than normal but they don't have behavioral programs. so there is a small effect. my point on this study is that i think very many of the effects that are contributed to smoking could be attributed to genetic differences between the population being studied. never the less, there is no limit to smoking alarmism. this one struck me. this is a quote from pediatrics. there is a quote, what is known on this subject they say? there is no safe level of

they let us follow their journey from ivf from start to finish.en there for the whole thing. >> reporter: good morning. we made history on this program because we showed a live procedure. great news to share this morning. we'll check in in a moment, but first their journey. >> 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: it's been a long road for 34-year-old jessica menkhausen and her fiance derek. >> so that's really the moment of conception. >> reporter: that moment, a first on live tv. in vitro fertilization. this is now a fertilized egg. >> so it's right there -- >> reporter: dr. sherman silver from st. lukes hospital in st. louis performed the procedure. then transferred two embryos days later with good results. >> your pregnancy test is positive. >> reporter: later a sonogram revealed one baby, a girl. >> i'm happy there's one. >> reporter: after a rather typical pregnancy, jessica was prepared to deliver. >> i feel ecstatic. i cannot wait. >> a

one couple was generous enough to share their conception through ivf. about their big news. >> that's good news. >>> first let's begin with an update on a story we told you about last week. an investigation is now underway into a woman's claims that she and her granddaughter were kicked out of a kfc restaurant because of the little girl's facial scars. katy tur is following this one for us. >> reporter: good morning, matt. the family of victoria wilshere says she was asked to leave a kfc because of her physical appearance. but this morning a local newspaper says it was all a hoax to raise money. 3-year-old victoria wilker gained national attention after reports a kfc in mississippi asked her to leave because the scars on her face was disturbing customers. >> i say it's one bad decision. one person in that store and kfc would never condone that. >> look at that little girl. she's beautiful to me. she's not scaring me. >> reporter: according to the mississippi-based leader-call newspaper, sources close to the investigation told the paper it was an elabora

years ago before ivf even existed this situation would never have occurred where you could create embryos for possible future use. this is a circumstance where medicine is outpacing the law, technology is and we think law is behind the curve on this because jacob as we've said before should have the right to control when and how they become a parent. and in this case that decision answer being taken away from him. we think it's even further unjust because the only document that the two of them signed explicitly said they needed to consent to the use of the embryos. again we would distinguish between the consent of creating them and using them in the future. who distinct events. in the future you you are a different person in a different circumstance in your life. you shouldn't be held to an agreement in the future when your feelings could be totally different. >> i have one pretty simple question jacob. i assume you wouldn't enter into an agreement like this ever again? >> you know in retrospeblght i would definitely have done -- retrospect i would definitely have done things differently.

and richard's story an anonymous doern wrote them a check for $48,000, another for five new rounds of ivft it. >> still at it. >> if you wanted a child that [ female announcer ] hands were made for playing. legs, for crossing. feet...splashing. better things than the joint pain and swelling of moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis. if you're trying to manage your ra, now may be the time to ask about xeljanz. xeljanz (tofacitinib) is a small pill, not an injection or infusion, for adults with moderate to severe ra for whom methotrexate did not work well. xeljanz can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. serious, sometimes fatal infections and cancers have happened in patients taking xeljanz. don't start xeljanz if you have any infection, unless ok with your doctor. tears in the stomach or intestines, low blood cell counts and higher liver tests and cholesterol levels have happened. your doctor should perform blood tests before you start and while taking xeljanz, and routinely check certain liver tests. tell your doctor if you have been to a region where certain