and that is, ivf, in vitro fertilization.lity is this, the science has moved us back to an appreciation that there has been a business model that has been used with these ivfs and not a human life model. you know, if you go back to louise brown, the first baby of in vitro fertilization, it was a very straightforward proposition. 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

could outlaw some in vitro treatments that help women have kids. of doctors in the state perform this and we're going to speak with one of them live. >>> plus, a potential glitch in the trial of dr. conrad murray. why it could go on longer than expected and why the judge is concerned he could lose some jurors. triggered my stop loss o. saved me a pantload. [ crying ] oh great. every time i fly. my ears! swallow! [ male announcer ] upgrade to first class investing technology... at e-trade. free gold ! we call that hertz gold plus rewards. you earn free days, free weeks and more fast. that's a plus. upgrade your ride. that's a plus. rewards with no blackout dates so you can redeem anytime. and it's easy to redeem your points online. already a gold member ? just select gold plus rewards in your profile and start rewarding yourself now. just go to hertzgoldplusrewards.com to join. hertz gold plus rewards. journey on. >>> i just think it's time for everybody to get serious about this. when i see news reports of some of what was put on the table, democra

still ahead, risky news for women undergoing in vitro. >> the new benefit for taking fish oil supplements. >> you can e-mail us your answer to our question of the day. do you think they're targeting children with a new line of flavored tobacco? >> an accident has shut down route one at the conowingo dam. >> 40 minutes after 5:00. we have a little light rain this morning. 60 degrees downtown. 50's in the suburbs. you'll want to give yourself a couple of extra minutes. it is mostly light rain. it will stay that way through the rest of the morning. it is raining all the way up and down 95. it does not matter which direction. the forecast for today is off and on rainshowers. it may not be said. temperatures are not going to move much. we will be back in a few minutes with 87 a forecast. -- the 7 day forecast. >> women who undergo in vitro may have an increased risk of tumors. if fallen 25,000 women with fertility problems. women whose ovaries were stimulated a had a double the risk of ovarian tumors. however, it had little affect on covariant malignancies and. >> a low-fat diet with fish oil

potential reach and it could not only define a person from the very moment of conception and affect in vitrod the birth control that they had and the impact had on a fetus and after it was fertil e fertiliz fertilized. it's going to take a great deal of litigation to sort through what all of that means. >> it's interesting the amendment in mississippi has been endorsed by candidates from both major parties. there is a doctor that was quoted in a daily beast article and one of four positions in the state who performed in vitro and had panicked calls with women with fertility problems. patients were extremelia anxious. they are contemplating if they should get ivf for fear of this law preventing them if it is passed to do so. >> that fear is starting to spread. i think it's starting to get the attention of people from mississippi that there unintended consequences of this legislation or this constitutional amendment that they hadn't thought about and they are starting to think about that now. mississippi presents an ideal venue for the conservative christian fundamentalist approach taken and t

she was undergoing a round of in vitro fertilization when her doctor suggested that she get screened. will have six weeks of radiation therapy. she says the cancer was detected early and her prognosis is good. she grew up in bethesda, maryland. >>> the bangles performed live on "dancing with the stars." ricki lake had a really good night. if you want to find out who gets eliminated tune in tomorrow at 9:00. if you want a look behind the scenes, go to wjla.com. i love 1980's music, i have to admit it. >> it is all good. >> no a's in the weather. >> there may be some 70's tomorrow. -- there are no 80's and the weather. >> there may be some 70's tomorrow. look at the right-hand side of your screen. today, there has been a noticeable change. we think we are approaching peak color over the next couple of days. if you have any pictures of great fall colors, send them our way. 52 degrees in chantilly right now. one more stop at the district george washington university, 61 right now. 69 was the highest reagan national airport. -- high at reagan national airport. it is 13 degrees cooler in fr

the 36-year-old has been undergoing in vitro fertilization treatments to get pregnant.rgery this weekend and will undergo six weeks of radiation. her prognosis is good. >>> tonight only 8 couples remain on "dancing with the stars." tonight, we have the 1980's of fame. -- theme. >>> let's see what is coming up at 6:00. no dancing, i trust. >> that the president on the road again with a message about creating jobs for unemployed americans. we will show you where he is going over the next several days and now he has changed his jobs bill. a pair of fast food restaurant robbery took police concerned. see what they want to arrest the robbers before they strike again. >>> what is the latest? >> it is still a very pleasant evening out there. temperatures will stock to drop a little more quickly later tonight. but eastern with a look at the national park. look how quickly the leaves have changed. if that is one of your favorite things to do in october he might want to head west of the metro area. michael, another shenandoah at the valley picture. temperatures are in the upper 6

the 15 year study found women undergoing in vitro fertilization or twice as likely to develop covariant malignancy which can include cancer or borderline termers the danger of ovarian cancer was slightly higher if you have ever felt that keeping off unwanted pounds was harder than losing them in the first place new research shows that you are probably correct. the new england journal of medicine reports hormones involved in appetite regulation may be setting us up for failure the study followed 50 overweight or obese people who went on a low-calorie diet for 10 weeks when year later the participants still at war among levels that promote hunter and weight gain a new study finds that children who play outdoors are less likely to be near sighted near sighted people see objects in the distance as larry and out of focus researchers who analyzed data from eight studies involving more than 10,000 children report that each additional hour children spent outdoors decreases the chance of developing nearsightedness by 2 percent just why is not known the rise in nearsightedness coincides with toda

did not know she was fighting breast cancer and now the question everyone is asking, could the in vitroyou for being here. this is not the first time this has been speculated there have been other cases pumping your body full of hormones as you do with in vitro does that lead to cancer? >>guest: no one has made the direct connection but it is connected with infertility. >>alisyn: there is a connection between cancer and infertility but not the treatment. >>guest: no, birth control pills, and in vitro is connected to early menopause then ivf is a really important thing because it helps women have babies but open the other hand nobody cares about anything but for the women getting pregnant, what happens to the women after is what we should address. >>alisyn: that is right, obviously, women are so desperate when they go through this and i can speak personally you do not thing of the consequences but should a study be done to figure out if it is okay to do round after round? why don't we study this? >>guest: that is a good we and the question, really, is, do we care about the women? if we c

have a baby on a reality show and she said she had a mammogram while undergoing her third round of in vitrotments that's when doctors found that she had breast cancer she will have surgery this week followed by six weeks of radiation and is vowing not to give up trying to have a baby >>on the medical watch babies who are unusually small at birth may have a higher risk of developing autism beginning in 1984 researchers at the university of pennsylvania filed more than 1000 babies who weighed less than 4 lbs. 7 ounces at birth they found 5 percent of those children that the criteria for artisan spectrum disorder later in life that's more than five times higher than rates in the general population and researchers said that the study highlights the need for comprehensive screening of all children >>cell phone users be where a steady in great britain finds that one in six cellular phones may be contaminated with fecal matter that spreads e. coli researchers in london said that's likely because so many people don't wash their hands properly after using the bathroom said study findings also show t

maryland from the university of maryland said a tumor was spotted on a mammogram while under going in vitrozation. the cancer was found early and she said her prognosis is good. >>> and even hurk you'llies has problems. how nearly dying saves one life. >> reporter: coming up on entertainment tonight, you know him as hercules but kevin was hiding a secret. tonight he sits down with samantha harris to talk about the health scare that nearly ended his career. >> i looked up at the beautiful skies and i said i'm going to die today. >> you thought you were going to die? >> oh, certainly. >> reporter: it was 1997. the heyday of his series hercules. he suffered strokes. >> within minutes the first two strokes hit me and it's the feeling when you stand up too quickly and you get light headed and dizzy but it's ten times worse. >> what was going through your mind? >> i didn't know. maybe it was full denial. but then over the next 12 hours i had another couple of strokes hit and the fourth one was my speech started stirring and slurring and then i knew. i said, my god, i'm having a stroke. >> he rele

in vitro fertilization could be affected. this is a constitutional law professor and abortioning rights supporter. she just returned from mississippi where she took part in a symposium on the measure. >> the implications for fertility treatments are uncertain and problematic because if embryos are persons then you have in fertility clinics a bunch of persons who are frozen. you can't leave them there or discard them. >> answers to questions like that are unclear. abortion opponent rebecca is a michigan attorney and spokeswoman for the personhood movement. she tells the story of her own mother's rape, using it as an example of why there should be no exceptions to abortion laws. she says while any impact on birth control or ivf wouldn't take place immediately she adds this. >> what about fertilized embryos that are already created, what would happen to them? >> that's something that would have to be determined legislatively. you know, i could foresee that there might be some people who would want to transfer their embryos out o

because of the in vitro fertilization, you know, people want to get pregnant right away. comes this lady from tunisia -- claims she was pregnant with 12 babies. 12. imagine for a minute that's true and you're the doctor that has to give a person that news, you know? be like "uh well, we got the results of your sonogram." "is it a boy or a girl?" "actually, it's a jury. that's what you're going to be having." [ laughter and applause ] so -- the verdict is in and it's weird. [ laughter ] when they're teething, it will be 12 angry babies -- [ laughter ] -- instead of grounding them, you can sequester them. i'm a very funny doctor. [ laughter ] i actually spent a lot of time with the doctor when i was a kid. i'm okay now. when i was 16 years old, i was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis. at 16 years old, as weird as it is to get at that age, but it's weirder, 'cause people act surprised when i told them i had it. but they'd act surprised like it was my fault. like i had done something irresponsibly by mistake to get it. you know, i'd be like, "yeah, i have arthritis." they'd

she says a tumor was spotted in a mammogram she had while undergoing in vitro fertilization.ave surgery and six weeks of radiation. the cancer was found early and ransic says her prognosis is good. >>> most doctors recommend annual mammograms for many women but as karen brown reports for wjz, there's new information about the false positive results from those tests. >> reporter: fran lavigne is a breast cancer survivor. >> i was going every year and they found something on that mammogram. >> reporter: she says her annual screenings helped catch the disease early, but getting screened every year can also have a down side. >> breathe. >> reporter: according to a new study, more than half of women who get annual mammograms will get false positive results at least once in 10 years, and as many as 9% of those women will have an unnecessary biopsy. >> i think most women would rather suffer with a little bit of anxiety than have a cancer that's caught later. >> reporter: but most doctors still recommend that all women have an annual mammogram starting at age 40, and this study confi

need to now think about whether or not this was a caused murder because this was a person, that in vitrompacted because it would be cruelty to freeze embryos to making it impossible to get iuds and other birth control, which actually reduces the number of abortions when women have access to birth control. this is an absolutely appallingly extreme measure meant to take away women's right to reproductive choice on both ends of the spectrum and to take it to the supreme court. >> it nice to see you this morning. always a pleasure to see you. can you remember to read more of melissa's thoughts on this and other topics at thenation.com. tomorrow we have one of five doctors in mississippi who performs invito fertilization. >> and remember this gay soldie by the audience? now he's takesing action against the government. and rosie o'donnell. she's really here. we're going to be talking to her about her new show and the fight for rights in this country. oter. so washington... before you even think about cutting my medicare and social security benefits... here's a number you should remember. 50 mi

. >> once you have in vitro fertilization, you've got all these frozen embryos-- a hundred thousand, i guess, that are frozen. they're just not going to be kept forever and ever and ever and ever. they're going to be discarded. so if they're going to be discarded, is it more ethical and moral than to use these in a method that might reduce suffering than to just discard them? >> if these embryos are going to be discarded anyway, i know the argument goes, then why not go ahead and use them? we have prisoners on death row who are going to be executed anyway. why not get some use out of them before they're dead? all of this cheapens, i think, human life and our respect for it. >> it's infinitely easier to lose sight of humanity if it's a little embryonic ball of tissue. and to me, it's not a full human being, but it is more than a piece of appendix. >> narrator: syndicated columnist charles krauthammer suffers from a spinal cord injury that might someday benefit from a stem cell breakthrough. he supports most forms of the research, but he, too, had moral concerns about that pinpoint of

mandated coverages they call them in massachusetts, the policies all have unlimited, treatment for in vitrotion, that makes the policies more expensive, for example, and in my view that would be something that ought to be taken out. >> if you have he' do you have an irregular heartbeat called atrial fibrillation, or afib, that's not caused by a heart valve problem? are you taking warfarin to reduce your risk of stroke caused by a clot? you should know about pradaxa. an important study showed that pradaxa 150mg reduced stroke risk 35% more than warfarin. and with pradaxa, there's no need for those regular blood tests. pradaxa is progress. pradaxa can cause serious, sometimes fatal, bleeding. don't take pradaxa if you have abnormal bleeding, and seek immediate medical care for unexpected signs of bleeding like unusual bruising. pradaxa may increase your bleeding risk if you're 75 or older, have kidney problems or a bleeding condition, like stomach ulcers. or if you take aspirin products, nsaids, or blood thinners. tell your doctor about l medicines you take, any planned medical or dental proc

she was going to wait until she was 40 to have a mammogram but the in vitro fertilization doctor suggestedhe have one now before the ivf treatments began. rancic says the prognosis is good and she says she will undergo surgery this week and then have six weeks of radiation therapy. >>> 11:50 is our time. coming up, reliving an amazing event caught on videotape. plus, meteorologist tom kierein will be back with when the weather will turn chilly out there. [ male announcer ] at the safeway pharmacy you can get a flu shot with no hassle at all. i don't even need an appointment. [ male announcer ] it's about as easy as flu shots get. get your groceries and a flu shot, all in one trip. at safeway. hey, jessica, jerry neumann with a policy question. jerry, how are you doing? fine, i just got a little fender bender. oh, jerry, i'm so sorry. i would love to help but remember, you dropped us last month. yeah, you know it's funny. it only took 15 minutes to sign up for that new auto insurance company but it's taken a lot longer to hear back. is your car up a pole again? [ crying ] i miss you, jessic

in vitro fertilization could also be banned.law professor and abortion rights professor. >> the implications for fertility treatment rs uncertain and quite problematic because if embryos and zygotes are person, then you have in fertility clinics, a bunch of persons who are frozen. you can't just leave them there. you can't discard them, right? >> answers to questions like that are unclear. opponent rebecca kinsling is a spokesman and tells the story of her own mother's rape, using as an example of why there should be no exceptions to abortion laws. she says while any impact on birth control or ivf wouldn't take place immediately, she adds this. >> what about fertilized broes already created. what would happen to them? >> that is something that would have to be determined legislatively. you know, i could forsee 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. >> one fe

. >> reporter: including two in vitro fertilization treatments one that resulted in a miscarriage ated to try again taking treatments from a leading ivf clinic in denver leading everyone to wonder whether it would work this time. >> bye! cameras off! >> see you. bye. >> wish us luck. >> reporter: giuliana rancic, good morning. >> good morning. >> to the fans listening and watching now, they are expecting you to possibly announce that you might be pregnant. >> yes. >> you have other news. >> i do. through my attempt to get pregnant for the third time through ivf, we sadly found out that i have early stages of breast cancer. it's been a shock because i recently found this out. a lot of people have been asking, you know, we saw in the season finale of the show that you got ivf, so what happened. are you pregnant? sadly, we have had to put that off because of the news. >> how you found out is important here. >> it is important. it's a pretty amazing story. when we went to do the third round of ivf, the only doctor who has ever said this to me said, you need a mammogram. i said, why? i'm

woman's fertized leg a person criminalizing abortion, some forms of birth control and even possibly in vitroer of other states so we know this isn't going away. we know there's a very thin wall comprising a single supreme court justice that keeps the country out of the hands of those who support forced pregnancy. we know the gop field is in trouble if pat robertson, yes, that pat robertson, thinks the republican base is demanding too much extremism from their candidates. here's him giving his take on the 700 club. >> forcing their leaders, the front-runners into positions that will mean they lose the general election. >> officially upside down and robertson is the voice of political reason. we know the occupy wall street protesters are right. 1% really is different than the 9 9%. thanks to a new report from the congressional budget office, we now know that since 1979 the 1% is the only group in the country to see its share of the national income increase. we also know that the gop field's solution to growing inequality is summed up nicely by rick perry. >> i don't care [ bleep ]. >> thanks t

in vitro fertilization and birth control pills both forms of hormones that women take have been studiedomen who are older usually ask for ivf because they're having a harder time getting pregnant and women who are holdolder have a higher chance of getting breast cancer so there is an age relation but not a hormonal relationship with cause and effect with ivf. >> what about the treatments, the pills and injection that is women take regarding boosting their hormone levels given we know estrogen fuels 80% of breast cancer. >> in some tumors. so let's assume you're diagnosed with a tomb their feeds off some hormone. doctors say let's put your hormones to the side whether it's hormone replacement therapy until we treat the tumor then we can talk about individualizing whether you get pregnant. interestingly, we do know that moms that that are pregnant can get chemotherapy because the chemotherapy doesn't cross over to the fetus and moms usually do very, we very, very well. you take this case and we have to be careful to recognize this is one case. and we cannot extrapolate and say, okay, now

"am house call" giuliana rancic shared her struggle to have a baby and after two rounds of inveet vitror correspondent elizabeth cohen has looked into this for us. is it bad to go through ivf, if you have cancer. that's what she has to decide now, i guess. whether she will continue all of this, trying to have a baby and fighting the cancer. >> what usually happens in this situation, christine. they tell the patient, let's put off the ivf treatments and put that aside and treat your cancer and get you healthy and then we'll decide what to do from there. >> you need hormones to do ivf. does that make the cancer better or worse or the treatment, how does that affect it? >> here's the problem. many breast cancers just love estrogen. when you're going through ivf to get pregnant, it's a double whammy. when you're pregnant, you have a ton of estrogen running through your body and that's not great for most breast cancers. number two, you're taking hormones to get pregnant. the concern is that those extra hormones that you're taking as medicines, really, that's even worse. sort of adds insult t

now that we've -- we've invented ways to in vitro controvertization. they only need a few of us around. they only need things of getting things off the top shelf but the portable aluminum stepladder was invented and the new rubber grip thing where you can get the lid off the pickle jar and that's been invented and so our use has been reduced, the need for us so actually you need women to keep the species going. all right. that's a long way to get to saying i actually have very strong spiritual and religious beliefs. i still go to mass. i try to find church and priests that are more in sync with the way i see the gospel and the teachings of jesus. and i don't think jesus or the catholic church is the only way to do it. i mean, we sit here today talking on gandhi's birthday. he was another great teacher. and had some incredible things to offer the world, as do muslims, jews and buddhists and atheists, because you want the other side having their say. you want to be challenged. you want them to question these things because by questioning, you maybe find

. >> now you found this doctor in colorado and in vitro fertilization, you've had your difficulties ofet pregnant the regular old fashioned way. what gives you hope about this doctor? >> a lot of people would come up to me and whisper to me, when i was getting a manicure, wherever i was, they were like go to denver. what's going on with this denver? and this doctor? and i looked it up and the guy has a 72% success rate to get pregnant. number two here in new york city, cornell medical center and they're at 50%. >> somewhere in the range. >> honey, i've done my research, ok? >> i bet she has! i've looked up the statistics. for me, you know, if we're going to do it a third time, i want to go to the best and i just, you know -- >> because it's a very emotional struggle and it's painful and you have to do all the shots and now you're traveling to colorado. i want to talk, bill, about the rumors that when you were in italy on your show, people said maybe they're going to adopt a baby from italy? is that true? >> it's something we've -- we're not opposed to, certainly we're taking advice of

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