wanting more children, they turned to invi vitro fertilization.as a teacher at vincent depaul. for a year she tried to get pregnant but didn't. when she asked for time off to under go a second round, she was told her contract wouldn't be renewed. she said she met with the pastor, asking him to reconsider, according to her lawsuit, he told her no, that she was a grave immoral sinner. several months later she appealed to the bishop but according to the lawsuit, the bishop refused saying in vitro is an intrinsic evil which means no circumstances can justify it. maryann case says a suit like this is far from cut and dry. >> no parts here that are just ordinary legal business. there are people with very strong stakes, personal, ideological, reiligious. >> emily claim she is a victim of discrimination. the school refused to comment. the diocese of south bend denies discrimination it is clear policies requiring teachers in their schools must as a condition of employment, have knowledge of and respect for the catholic faith, and abite by the tenets of the

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wanting more children, she and her husband turned to in vitro fertilization. was a literature and language teacher at st. vincent depaul in fort wayne. she told the school she was going to get ivf. for a year she tried to get treatment but didn't. when she asked for time off for a second hour, she was told her contract wouldn't be renewed. she says she met with the parish pastor asking him to reconsider. but according to her recently filed lawsuit, he told her no. she was a grave, immoral sinner. several months later she appealed to the bishop kevin rhodes. according to her lawsuit the bishop refused saying in vitro fertilization is an intrinsic evil which means no circumstances can justify it. mary ann case is a university of chicago law professor. she says a suit like this is far from cut and dry. >> no parts here that are just ordinary legal business. there are people with very strong stakes, personal ideological, religious. >> emily claims she's a victim of discrimination. the school refused to comment. in a statement the diocese of fort wayne south bend d

first of all, the catholic church does not object to in in vitro fertilization.e fertilizing of multiple egg. and them being implanted and being selectively reduced. >> kathy, i hate to correct you but you are wrong. their pol is against -- pope benedict, xvi -- wait as recently as february, a couple of months ago told infertile couples not to use in vitro fertilization or any other form of artificial pro-creation. the church doesn't say you can do it as long as they only, you know, fertilize one egg and one sperm. >> let me finish. they don't object to the science of it. throw the whole thing out because people implant more than one and selectively reduced or might fertilize 15 eggs and implant 4. they throw the whole science out with that. >> they do. we do for the wrong reasons as far as i am concerned. >> well, and the last i heard, the catholic church -- and i don't agree with what they are doing. don't get me wrong on what they are doing. >> yeah. >> the last i heard, the catholic church was still a private employer. i live in an at-will state. they can pre

but wanting more children, she and her husband turned to in vitro fertilization.me, she was a teacher here in fort wayne. she says she told the school she was going to get ivf. for a year, she tried to get pregnant but didn't. when she asked for more time off to undergo a second round of ivf treatments, she was told her contract wouldn't be renewed. she says she met with the parish pastor, asking him to reconsider. but according to her recently filed lawsuit, he told her no, that she was a "grave, immoral sinner." several months later, she appealed to the bishop kevin rhodes. but according to her lawsuit, the bishop also refused, saying in vitro fertilization is an intrinsic evil which means that no circumstances can justify it. maryann case is a university of chicago law professor. she says a suit like this is far from cut and dry. >> no parts here that are just ordinary legal business. there are people with very strong stakes, personal, ideologic ideological, religious. >> reporter: emily claims she's a victim of discrimination. the school refused to comment, bu

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in vitro. >> eric: the process is called spinning.oy rather than a girl. i'm against all of this stuff. we should let it happen. boy, girl. let it happen. >> andrea: yeah. >> greg: you can't -- how do you regulate that? if people want a choice. oddly enough, irony women choose against female babies. you're almost like eliminating a lot of girls in some countries. >> bob: there is a company, united states company that does sonograms in india and south korea to pick out whether you'll have a boy or a girl. and the rates of boys being born to girls increased dramatically. i assume as a result of that. what do you think? >> dana: ivf has been helpful to my friends that could haven't children and did treatment and were able to have children. this is slightly different where science gets ahead of us or tries to get ahead of us and you choose male or female. i'm not for it. i think there is a reason we are here and we consult bioethicists like we did on the stem cell debate. i think human beings are here to make sure that this kind of thing

that future not whether or not people happen to love one another all this wonderful thing about in-vitro fertilisation and his two babies and stuff is that a gay couples can have kids and be there's. i don't know if it's tens of thousands hundreds of thousands or millions but there's a lot of children out there who need it up to parents and see if we follow your logic then we should say that as soon as a woman hits men applause she's the worst up now. what we want is a man and a woman provide the best housing for having kids it's a kind of national science that backs that up the other is the almost all of that going to show the same thing that is it's impossible to prove cause you can't do a scientific study randomly assigning people the one condition or the other you can look at the out of the gate or relational if you live with gay parents they they typically are not as effective as header of that are they are actually better parents who look at these things and the reason why is because they had to work so much harder to be parents if you were to straight parents an awful lot of them

. >> reporter: what she did was in vitro fertilization in israel using donor sperm and donor eggs tor n her case, twins. now 2 1/2 years old. she went to the u.s. embassy in israel to register her daughters as americans. and that's when joy turned to anger. >> i was embarrassed, humiliated, horrified, ashamed. >> reporter: through a glass partition over a loudspeaker in a crowded room, the embassy official asked her a single mother, how she conceived the children. >> that's an outrageous question. >> reporter: that was just the beginning. after more private questions asked in a public place, she fled in tears. she says that her children's requests for u.s. citizenship was denied. why? because there's no proof that either of the donors of the sperm or the egg is american. everything is anonymous, secrecy guaranteed. >> they are my kids. i carried them for nine months but they can't be american. >> reporter: you can have a child that is a child without a country. they are not going to be u.s. citizenship because there is no biological connection. the laws of that foreign country may sa

but the diocese stands by its decision and argues in vitro kills embryos. calling it morally unacceptable. now, herx says the doctrine the church says she violated was never explained to her. she doesn't reveal in her lawsuit whether she's progress. robin? george? >> alex, thank you. >>> now, we get to the runaway puppy who caused all kinds of trouble at la guardia yesterday. birdie, the ridgeback, was out and caused all kinds of delays. abc's jim avila has the latest on that. >> reporter: first, it was birds on the runway at jfk. now, it's birdie at la guardia. a beautiful, brown, rhodesian ridgeback puppy, who made a flight from her cage en route from new york to memphis. she did not want to go. shutting down the tarmac. delaying flights. >> the dog has me running around like crazy. >> reporter: for ten minutes, birdie would not be moved. finally coaxed into the cargo hold, as passengers aboard the plane tweeted, dog on runway at la guardia. causes mayhem. passengers not allowed to deplane. birdie and her owner finally made it to memphis. >> is the dog ok

for one woman the catholic school she works for fired her after they learned she was undergoing in vitro fertilization. now she is suing. >> reporter: their quest to become parents conflicted with the school's teaching. she worked at the catholic school in fort wayne, indiana and was fired. she said her attempts to start a family started in 2008 and her boss knew. still, she was called a grave immoral sinner. >> it's been a very hard thing to come to dprips to because i r--- grips to because i did love my job so much. to have that stripped away from me, but the outpouring of support has been wonderful. >> reporter: she has a 7-year-old but needs ivf because she suffers from a condition that causes infertility. she has filed a federal suit. the diocese said she knew the rules and that they must have a knowledge and respect for the catholic faith and the slaw on their side thanks to a supreme court ruling in january. >> if you're a religious school, you can now terminate any employee you want for any reason even for discriminatory purpose. >> reporter: still, her attorney feels they have a

. >>> a teacher fired for going through in vitro, why the teacher can no longer stand at the head of the class.  >>> we begin with continuing coverage of the phylicia barnes case. we brought you the story first on abc2news.com. a baltimore city grand jury indicted 28-year-old michael maurice johnson for first-degree murder. at a nurse conference with the baltimore state's attorney many questions went unanswered. the family said they suspected michael johnson. johnson is the ex-boyfriend of phylicia's step sis ter. >> my message is that i would hope that he would do the right thing. if it was him, tell the truth. tell the truth and give phylicia's family some type of closure. >> johnson hasn't had his first court appearance yet. in our continuing coverage of the arrest it takes us to north carolina the teenager's disappearance not only captured headlines

emily hurks was fired because she did in vitro fertilization.lic church says ivf leads to the destruction of embryos and is in violation of the church's right to life philosophy. she said her bosses knew what she was doing and supportive initially then changed their minds. >> our goal trying to wrap our minds around what happened here, just because i was such a devoted teacher and i loved my job so much. and just trying to expand our family, to have this happen was -- it was awful. >> the church maintains the lawsuit challenges the church's ri right to make decisions consistent with the religious standards. >>> scenes like this play out every day, how the demonstration is helping police figure out what happens in the moments before they respond. >>> a beauty queen loses her crown but not because of a public scandal. how is the weather, doug? >> weather not bad, some areas seeing at least some breaks in the clouds and some sunshine. but what does that mean for the rest of the evening and what about the tough foreca >>> montgomery county police he

to comment, but the diocese says it supports in fertility treatments for its employees, but not in vitroertilization, which violates the churches right-to- life stance. this fired up some of our followers on facebook. julie, for example, right, "you would think the catholic church would support her desire to have a child. after all, the church is all about procreation." steve rights, "if it was in her contract, she should be fired. if you object to something in the contract, do not sign it or complain when you break it." >> government officials say osama bin laden's 3 widows and children have been deported to saudi arabia. a statement says the family left within the last few hours. the family was detained by pakistani authorities immediately after the pre-don america raised nearly a year ago that killed the al qaeda leader ehud meanwhile, counter- terrorism officials say increase intelligence chatter does concern them but that there is no credible or specific threat related to the upcoming anniversary of osama bin laden's death. >> still to come tonight, wal- mart shoppers, the word. >>

paul catholic school in indiana letter girl last summer that is because she her husband's reusing in vitro fertilization to have a baby the catholic church does not condone such treatments. >>> i didn't think i was doing anything wrong and had never had any complaints about nine why is the teachers though i was shocked and then this kind of snowballed from there. the masai of respect for the catholic teachings you've probably heard story after story of insurance companies refusing potentially life-saving treatments for patients but you probably never heard this a hospital denying care that an insurance company with one of this debate is happening more and more usually a hospital's executive rooms behind closed doors christina's fighting for her life and running at a time. >>> and some time is of the essence right now my new drug is sparking real hope doctors say the treatment and to their pilaus the body to better recognize and attack and kill cancer cells. >>> does mean probably life- and-death if it works. >>> for this patient is basically a last hope. >>> they said of the st. mary's med

several opportunities before a good egg -- >> she went under in vitro fertilization what experts unites firm and her own a in a lab in the embryo is transferred into renee, resulting in her pregnancy pretty much i feel pretty good most of the time. i just entered my third trimester about a week ago so i started to feel a little tired. >> she is healthy and beat the odds, being able to use her own eggs at 43. >> unfortunately, it is fairly unlikely female will spontaneously conceived on her own using her own eggs, either spontaneously or ivf, much over the age of 43 or 44. >> this is the director of advanced reproductive services at a health center which also does ivf. a recent study showed women in the 40's and 50's do just as well as young woman during pregnancy. the uterus changes were little with age and hormones can nourish the growing fetus. there have been questions raised for a father's age -- for the woman to achieve the most pregnancies in the four reposited deposit, donor eggs must be used from donors in the 20's. over 35, there are health risks, which doctors must watch caref

. >> at issue was the way in which she was trying to get pregnant, in vitro fertilization. she said she appealed to the bishop. in her lawsuit, she said he called the treatment an intrinsic evil, which means that no circumstances can justify it. even her circumstances. doctors told her after the birth of her first child, she had become medically infertile. the diocese here in ft. wayne said she was not a victim of discrimination, that it had a right as a religious employer to make decisions consistent with its religious standards. in a statement, the school said it has clear policies requiring that teachers in its schools must as a condition of employment have a knowledge of and respect for the catholic faith and abide by the tenets of the catholic church. >> i'm sure the church is going to say having a teacher in a catholic school that undermines church doctrine in this way and models that for the students is an undue hardship. >> in january, the u.s. supreme court ruled that church employees who pass on a religious message cannot sue for job discrimination, but she said s

she and her husband were having no luck trying to conceive so they turned to in viit trxt vitr-- in vitrotilization. >> i can't even explain how traumatic it is as a woman and as a child and you think that's what you're xoekt p supposed to do and that's what you want to do for them to not be able to do that. >> now they have filed a lawsuit for discrimination. the supreme court ruled in january that people that work for the church cannot sue for discrimination. >>> it is the monster folks still talk about. 10 years since a killer tornado carved a 24-mile path across charles county. it was moving a mile a minute. that gave folks very little time to get out of the way. the twister killed three people, destroyed hundreds of homes and businesses. a family survived, but their house didn't. >> everything above it was just gone. to this day, we never, ever found a single shingle or a truss from the main roof. >> as you can see in the aftermath of the tornado, they did rebuild their home. and la plata in general did rebuild the town. they're celebrating tomorrow what they gained rather than a mem

emily herx says she was fired because she used in vitro fertilization. herx is married. she's not catholic. but she lost her job anyway. and a church pastor called her a, quote, grave, immoral sinner. >>> it's a big day in sports. the nfl brings in its newest class of millionaires tonight when the draft gets under way. as for last night's sports highlights, we get those from espn. >> good morning. i'm jorge andres. this is your "sportscenter" update. let's go to the ice for game seven. timmy thomas, one of the best mustaches against alex ovechkin. bruins/caps. redirected by matt hendricks. and washington, up 1-0. second period, boychuk triesing to get the rebound. tyler seguin getting a piece of it. we're tied up at 1-1. later, in overtime, tied at 1-1. bruins make the line change. and word there for the rebound. the capitals are advancing to the conference semifinals. >>> let's go to the association. blake griffin and the clippers taking on the knicks. fourth quarter, blake griffin. his pass stolen by j.r. smith. and alley-oops to landry fields. successful two points th

>> reporter: but an in vitro hamburger doesn't sound like it would be good for you. >> well, actually these kinds of new food products will be far better for you because they'll have the best proteins, the be fats, the nutrients built-in. >> reporter: they'll taste like a hamburger? >> they'll taste better than a hamburger. >> reporter: by this time, we were sufficiently wowed, if not downright overwhelmed. but keeping our journalistic wits about us, we posed the skeptics question --- to vint cerf, known as the father of the internet. did he think this conference might just be over-hyping the future? >> i have been surprised repeatedly by the things that we've been able to do that would have been thought to be science fiction inhe past. what craig ventetalk abo th morng aut creating synthetic life, would have been science fiction, and in fact it was science fiction and he's pushed the boundaries of what's real. >> reporter: but what about craig venter himself? the man who cracked the human genome in record time a decade ago is now hard at work creating new life forms for fuels, food a

. >> reporter: what she did was in vitro fertilization in israel. using donor sperm and donor eggs to have a baby. in her case, twins maya and sheila, now 2 1/2 years old. because she's an american from chicago, she went to the u.s. embassy in israel to register her daughters as americans, and that's when joy turned to anger. >> i was embarrassed, humiliated, horrified, ashamed. >> reporter: to her last petition over a loudspeaker in a crowded room she asked her, a single mother, how she conceived the children. >> it's an outrageous question. >> reporter: and that was just the beginning. after more private questions asked in a public least, elise fled in tears. she said her children's request for u.s. citizenship, denied. why? because there's no proof that either the donors of the sperm or of the egg is american. everything's anonymous. secrecy guaranteed. >> they are my kids. i carried them for nine months. >> you can have a child that is a child without a country. they are not going to get u.s. citizenship because there's no biological connection.

and we need more babies so we need more gay couples now and in vitro fertilization no not at all and the option i'll take kids wherever they come that's good but the best kids predictably fallen from a married mother and father hopefully will stay together and fight to stay together and raise those kids that's the best choice for hey we'll see how history decides this will that we were both live long enough to actually were yes let's live to see in my opinion same sex marriage is just the latest battle for equal rights in america let's hope if this issue is settled soon and all americans regardless of gender race or sexual orientation are able to enjoy all the perks of living in the united states. coming up and it's dealing take the only way republicans can win elections is by lying about themselves or their opponent so how do we stop that steady stream of misinformation and prevent republicans from buying themselves right into the white house. just put a picture of me when i was like nine years old like the silage fruit live. i'm a contestant i'm a total get of friends that i love r

and a local diocese for firing her. 31-year-old emily herx says she was fired because she used in vitro fertilization in an attempt to get pregnant. that's against church teachings because some embryos may be ultimately destroyed. herx who is married and is not catholic says no embryos were destroyed in her treatment, but she lost her job anyway. >> such a sensitive topic. >> that's probably all we can safely say about that about that. >> i don't think we should touch this one. >> i have a lot to say. let's move on and play it safe today, shall we? >>> moving on to the phone hacking scandal which has rocked britain. billionaire media mogul rupert murdoch was on the defensive as lawmakers demand answers about the scandal. abc's jeffrey kofman reports from london. >> reporter: rupert murdoch, the world's most powerful media baron, is rattling the british government yet again. this time with accusations of back door dealings with british politicia politicians. he testified before the media ethics inquiry and was called after revelations that his london tabloids broke the law in search of s

vincent de paul catholic school for eight years on the school learned about the in vitro effort she was fired ... the government says that as a religious employer the church and that school has a right to make decisions about who hires ... the catholic church does not condone in.vitro fertilization because embryos are often destroyed under catholic teachings every embryo has the right to life three teenage girls from northwest indiana have been expelled from school for their posts on facebook and the aclu is coming to their defense the girls are eighth graders at griffith middle school in january there were expelled for bullying harassment and intimidation after school officials were informed about a conversation they posted on facebook the teen's claim that there were only joking and they argue that what they do outside of school is private and should not be the school's business the aclu filed a lawsuit yesterday alleging that the school violated the teenagers first amendment rights the school is not return phone calls about the case but in a letter to one of the teen-ager's parents o

she says her civil rights are being violated and the catholic church says in vitro fertilization goes against their beliefs. the father of an autistic boy says he recorded his son's cheaper verbally abusing him. >> any books elaborate? demand >> says he made his son where a digital recorder. he suspected something was wrong at the school. he heard the teacher and an aide call in the boys' names and making fun of him. the school moved the teacher to another school and the father says more needs to be done. >> we now turn to america's money -- >> the federal reserve reports cautious optimism. they will keep interest rates to near zero for 2014 and will add stimulus it needed but they warn that tax hikes and spending cuts slated for january could trigger a double dip recession. that is what has happened in great britain after two quarters of negative growth the economy is officially back in recession there. the senate voted to fund a $11 billion for the post office. the measure now goes to the house. burger king is phasing out breeding chicken and pigs. this could be a game changer for t

. >> amy went through in vitro fertilization and became pregnant. women can get a test and freeze their eggs. >> the test is typically done in fertility clinics and generally costs less than $100. >> social security solvency. why the trust fund could be bankrupt even earlier than expected. more details from rob nelson. >> good morning. topping america's money, the social security funds in trouble, projected to run out of money in 2033, three years sooner than expected. a big wave of retiring baby boomers is causing this and people are living longer. apple earnings report expected to be another whopper today. a united nations survey shows criminal business generated $2 trillion in profits and is threatening emergency economies -- emerging economies and causing internationalil instability. there is a project to send an unmanned spacecraft to an asteroid and mine it for natural resources. i am rob nelson. >> the capitals will spend the day on the way to boston as they get ready for game 7 tomorrow night. the national's begin a road series and that will

she did in vitro fertilization. some people say look, the government should get involved here.f pregnant. should government be involved in telling people how many kids they should have? >> greg: i would like to applaud her lifestyle choice. she is an american hero. the one important thing she said is that no matter what kind of financial straits she is in, she will not do adult films. i can say on behalf of america, thank you. >> bob: she had eight kids. she didn't expect to have eight kids. >> greg: the fertility doctor would argue otherwise. >> bob: how many people had eight kids? at one time, right? >> andrea: she wanted all the kids. given the name octomom. >> bob: the kids should have food to eat. if they can't afford it, food stamps should be provided we all ought to pay for it. >> kimberly: she did have children prior to these eight children. she had special needs children, and there is needs for the children here as well. it breaks my heart. they are suffering. i don't want to deprive her of food stamps or whatever she needs. sad, she is posing -- this is very heart-bre

she supported in vitro fertilization.ou can't be for those things in georgia and get the endorsement of georgia right to life. she lost the primary because of that. >> that kind of litmus test, that kind of, i would say purification politics, does it have an effect of making georgia republicans less competitive in general election contest? i'm thinking about suburban atlanta where that representative i was talking about is from and some other areas of the state which may not be pure red from which these republican representatives are coming from. the that litmus test hurting them or has it not done that. >> redistricting are making sure the red districts are very red. i don't think it's going to hurt them. i also believe that the peach tea party will be very successful in its efforts to oust these people. i think there's enough of a recognition within the georgia republican party that this really is extremism. it's not where the they want to go. you saw that in the georgia senate which stops the bill in its initial form.