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bitter custody battle over his son conceived in vitro.espread implications. >>> and the $20 bill in your pocket could be fake and you may not even know it. why are there so many counterfeit 20s out and about right now? we'll explain. >> we think this is real. >> you gave it back? >> i'm going to try to spend it and see what they say. i mean. shaquille o'neal could be on the cover of this 20 and i'm going to try to use it. i'm sorry. >>> we also have an amazing weight loss success story that turns pretty nasty. why one blogger says a popular fitness magazine will not publish her before and after photos. >> all right. we'll get into that. >>> we're going to start this half hour with the latest on oscar pistorius. questions in court this morning about his behavior and all of his crying in the courtroom and whether or not it's real or an act. abc's matt gutman, following every move for us, in south africa. >> reporter: pistorius is not faking it. >> he cried 80% of the time. >> reporter: that, according to a social worker who spoke to pistori

and in the middle -- the son they conceived through in vitro fertilization.r the courts have sided with shriver who said patrick offered to donate his sperm after they broke up. that she says makes him nothing more than a sperm donor entitled to zero parental rights. fwut da but today, patrick aappealed. hoping to be recognized as gus' dad. celebrity fodder, sure, what's at stake here? this little buy's future. and potentially, what it means to bea family in america. what it means to be a father. it is a case that weighs into what has been called the wild west of reproductive rights. sperm donation where the man's identity is not a secret. >> the child's right should be at the heart of the matter. that's what many of the experts in the field have been saying. is that, for too long, fertility industry really doesn't seem to be taking into account the interest of the children. the interest of the children are being left out of this mix. >> i have to when this, you know. i have to win this for my son. i have to win this for -- for fathers and mothers all over th

consequently you have elizabeth ames jones and her famous drillbit vitro speech that is given here in san antonio which didn't sound like a regulator which made it. i wonder whether you can trust the industry to do these things you are talking about or whether we ask for another environmental catastrophe. maybe not the deepwater rising, the left to their own devices, the profit motive will always turn the environmental and safety concerns. >> you bring up the deepwater rising, which is this deepwater. comment the bp bridge in the gulf of mexico which for weeks gushed oil into the gulf of mexico. i covered that extensively that the same federal agency charged with raising money by the government of wasting off some of these blocks in the gulf of mexico was also been charged with regulating it. you have to cheerleader and a regulator under the same roof and that is what we have in texas and north dakota. the federal government made the right decision. they slip inside. you cannot have a regulator and cheerleader under the same roof. and i haven't heard that in texas. your question impli

dramatic increase in multiple births because of the fertility treatment, ovarian stimulation or ipp vitroertilisation, what are the consequences. >> this is happening because women are waiting longer. single mums are saying i'm not sure mr right is coming along. they are turning to fertility treatment. consequences - premature babies cost a lot of money. 26 billion due to prem futury, a lot driven by multiple births. another problem - you get more premature births and more disability in the kids. we don't like to talk about it because it's great to have kids and for infertile couples it's a miracle. it has costs. >> this is because fertility treatments increase the likely had and invitro because it costs so much, it's rarely covered by insurance, that parents end up with multiple embryos, because they want to make some takes, and they have more implanted, and that ends up resulting in twins and triplets and bigger multiple births. >> that's right. you come in and may be told your insurance doesn't cover the treatment, and it would be $15,000 a try, which is not outlandish. >> of course it

this is happening because fertility treatments increase the likely hoods of that happening and ipp vitro, because it costs so much funny and is rarely covered by insurance, that parents have multiple embryos implanted more often than not. they want to make sure that some embryo takes, and they have more implanted, and that end up resulting in more twins and triplets and bigger multiple births. >> that's right. you come m and may be -- come in and may be told your insurance doesn't cover the treatment. it may be $15,000 a try. >> it's not that outland sh. >> it's a regular charge. >> exactly. let's say that's the number. you hear and think how often will i do that. give me as many embryos as you can, that i make. put them in, because i want one shot to work. you make it six, sex, eight embryos. if all of them take or some of them take, multiple pregnancies. if we locked at the cost and just of taking fertility drugs, they can cost thousandsful all the incentives are have the babies as fast as a can, because insurance doesn't pay for it. >> what do we do, if this is a big problem. i guess

the cases involving frozen embryos and the cases that actually involve kids that be born through in vitro> well, because first of all, an embryo still needs a woman in order to bring it to life, so to speak. and so the woman has control over the embryo in the same way that, if you get pregnant, whether you get pregnant through having sex in the back seat of a car or in your marital bedroom or using a petri dish and technology, the woman still is the vehicle, so to speak, that is going to create the child, and just like a man can't use, quote, parental rights" to then terminate a pregnancy he can't use parental rights to then terminate an embryo. >> kavinoky? >> hang on. the courts are wrestling with this issue, who owns these embryos? i don't think it's as simple, well, the woman owns them because she's got to house them in order to bring them to life. the courts have wrestled with whether this can be resolved by contract, a mutual agreement, not just at the time that the eggs are fertilized but at the time they're actually put into use or a balancing between who's got the stronger equita