it would interfere with in vitro fertilization procedures. senator ernst has said that under the personhood amendment, doctors should be prosecuted for performing legal, medical procedures. >> a chance for both of you to rebuttal. acterizing my position. especially when it comes to birth control. i will always protect a woman's right to access to birth control. i agree with the supreme court's ruling but that doesn't mean a woman can't get reliable, safe birth control. her doctorll go to and receive birth control. it is not outlawing birth control. this is a ploy to scare women and we shouldn't be doing that. i will protect their right to access to birth control. let us make that clear. when it comes to a deciding -- you've there is life, just said that it's determine -- it is determined by law. there has to be consensus on these issues. where there is not consensus, there will not be a law. >> thank you. >> senator ernst, your words have consequences. you can't say that you protect a woman's writes to contraception and then vote against it o

it would interfere with in vitro fertilization procedures. senator ernst has said that under the personhood amendment, doctors should be prosecuted for performing legal, medical procedures. >> a chance for both of you to rebuttal. >> mischaracterizing my position. especially when it comes to birth control. i will always protect a woman's right to access to birth control. i agree with the supreme court's ruling but that doesn't mean a woman can't get reliable, safe birth control. she can still go to her doctor and receive birth control. it is not outlawing birth control. this is a ploy to scare women and we shouldn't be doing that. i will protect their right to access to birth control. let us make that clear. when it comes to a deciding whether there is life, you've just said that it is determined by law. there has to be consensus on these issues. where there is not consensus, there will not be a law. >> thank you. >> senator ernst, your words have consequences. you can't say that you protect a woman's writes to contraception and then vote aga

test test. >> i have a friend with two beautiful daughters because of in vitro fertilization. i'm glad that she is blessed to be a mother. braley, we will move onto a series of questions for you and then a chance for rebuttal. we would like to ask you to please be specific with your answers as well. at what point during fetal development do you believe a woman should not have an abortion? >> i have always stated that i oppose all late-term abortions that are not necessary to save the life or health of the mother. >> by late-term, can you be specific? >> it's a term that has a specific legal meaning because of existing law. when the rights of the mother and the rights of the child has significance in terms of deciding. >> do you support employers selecting the types of contraband -- contraception they're willing to provide underinsurance? >> not at all and senator ernest made the statement that she supports a woman's right to contraception and yet she supports the supreme court decision that allows employers to interfere with an individual woman's health care decisions about he

genetic mothers, all to accommodate women using assistive reproductive technology such as in vitro fertilization. previously, if an american woman pregnant with an anonymous donor egg had her baby in, say, london, children would not be a u.s. citizen, dooming it to a lifetime of british cuisine. i for one do not think babies should be drinking warm beer. now, i don't know what any of this really means, but i think we all know what this really means. >> if feels like an expansion of the definition of motherhood, just like we expand the definition of gender and other things. >> when it's surrogate, you're not genetically the child's mother. >> got it. so there's no american genetics involved at all. >> exactly. >> this is what we do to create citizens in a country. you're not passing on the civic duty, the understanding of america. it just feels like a total erosion? >erosion. >> stephen: it's a total erosion, because we all know that citizenship is genetic, and as a christian, i believe american begins at conception. i mean, uterus-a! uterus-a! uterus-a! uterus-a! oh, that looks good. nation, i g

certainly the question of how to obtain women's eggs has come up before, whether for in vitro fertilizationthe 1980s or for the cloning of eggs for research in the 1990s and the early part of this century. there has been some concern all along that the use of the drugs necessary to help them super ovulate might cause problems, but the data suggests that it's actually very safe. it is, however, very uncomfortable and certainly not an experience one welcomes if you can avoid it. >> sarah elizabeth richard, let's talk about what conversations this does open and doesn't open. for instance, some people said expanding women's opportunity to have children would mean expanding day care or paid maternity leave. does this take the place of that? >> i really hope not. that's been a big point that a lot of women have talked about. it certainly doesn't replace that conversation. in fact, one of the great outcomes of even talking about all this is that we are talking more about having affordable childcare and better maternity leave. so it's almost like one is bringing up the other conversation. so i thin

having a couple beers every day makes a man twice as likely to impregnate a woman undergoing in vitro fertilizationt drinking two cups of coffee reduces the chance to one in five. >>> and beaches in maui closed after a shark encounter. the shark bit the tip of a paddle board and knocked her off. she was not hurt. scientists say the ocean water is murky after hurricane ana, and that's attracting the sharks. >>> and off the coast, one family hooked the catch of a lifetime. a rare white nurse shark. it fought for 20 minutes and got away. but they have the video to remember this special day. >> it's probably a one in a million. i have never heard of anybody catching an albino shark. i guess we got lucky. >> they are slow-moving bottom dwellers, not a threat to humans. >>> shoppers at a drugstore in oregon got a shock. a 1-month-old 13-pound black bear cub was roaming the aisles. it was likely separated from its mother and was looking for food. an officer scooped it up and it was taken to the wildlife rehab center. >>> and the san diego chargers visit the broncos in denver. >> as for last night, the wor

means you want to and all abortion, certain types of contraception, and would be against in vitro fertilization. there is a lot here and we will give you a chance to be very clear. we are going to go through each of these points one at a time. we are looking for short answers. do you believe that life begins at conception? >> i do believe that i would like to respond to all of that. i do believe in supporting life, and i believe that the united states and the state of iowa -- we do support life. i do want to believe that. i do support life at conception and i will always support life. and this is a very, very sensitive issue, as you stated, and we do have to have civil discussions when it comes to this very issue. i will always support life but this is where we as republicans and democrats needed to come together to find those areas that we agree on when supporting life. there is an area where we have done this in the past, where democrats and republicans came together to ban partial-birth abortion. harry reid, joe biden they are democrats that supported that. congressman braley doesn't even ag

it would be to do selection, in vitro fertilization. this would mainly require us to have more information about the genetic architecture of intelligence, which is on path to a sufficient degree, but the recent postings to be the prices sink with dean has been high enough to make it impossible to conduct very large-scale studies with very large populations like hundreds of thousands of individuals or even millions, but the price is not cool in which some studies are gaining. you would need such large studies that the variation in the attitude higher ability is not due to a few different aims, by too many genes that each had a very small effect, hundreds of genes or thousands of genes. so to discover a small effect community large sample and that is now becoming possible. military technology would be required. generally, in the context of in vitro fertilization, something like eight to 10 embryos are introduced infertility treatment and is there some kind of physical abnormality, you will not select one of the healthy looking once and yo

you freeze your eggs when you're younger, you use those eggs later on if you want to have in vitro fertilization. so this is a big boon for women. >>> a second health care worker has tested positive for ebola in texas in dallas. this follows the news that that nurse nina pham tested positive. so this makes two people in texas now positive for ebola. we do nut know much. we really don't know anything just yet about this second case, what we do know that thomas eric duncan, the man from liberia who died of ebola was treated by many people at texas health presbyterian right now. and now we have learned that a second health care worker has tested positive. >>> and the cdc director thomas frieden said he wished right away when that first case was diagnosed when duncan was first diagnosed in texas. he wished they sent a go-team to that them there. a lot of questions about protocols and who is doing this. >> there will be even more questions about protocols now. there was a nurses union that wrote a scathing letter overnight that said there were no protocols in place. >> or changing protocols. >> chang

low, the doctor said there was still a fighting chance they could have kids through ivf, in vitro fertilizationseveral embryos were successfully created and subsequently frozen, a stock of potential babies ready to be born. the first egg implantation took, and their son ezra was born nine months later. >> i don't know. >> what is this letter? >> a. >> at what point did you decide you definitely wanted to try to have another? >> well, we knew for sure that we wanted more than one. so we had these five frozen embryos back at this clinic and said we want to transfer these guys. >> they tried to get pregnant, but one by one, the frozen embryos weren't working, and finally their stockpile was emptied. >> that was really crushing, because now are you out of everything. and i'm three years older, and they started to wonder about why these other embryos hadn't taken. to my great surprise i learned that my ovarian reserve had been extremely low and had been extremely low three years before. >> ezra's birth was an anomaly. in moving forward there was no chance of a successful pregnancy with holly's own e

all couples, even fertile ones, must first go through in-vitro fertilization, the process in which a sperm is injected into a woman's eggs under a microscope to create embryos. then, five days later, a tiny tube just one 20th the diameter of a human hair is used to extract from each embryo one single cell to be genetically tested for disease. it's just one cell? >> hughes: yes. >> o'donnell: you can tell that much from one cell? >> hughes: you can tell an awful lot in one cell. >> o'donnell: that cell is packed up at fertility clinics across the country and shipped overnight in ordinary-looking boxes like these to screening labs. we followed the process at dr. hughes' lab, called genesis genetics, just outside detroit, where a team of scientists took over. so what do you do with that one cell when it arrives here? >> hughes: well, we're busy. we have to break the cell open. they have to pull out this enormous encyclopedia of genetic information. >> o'donnell: he's talking about the cell's dna, our genetic code that scientists represent with four letters-- a, c, t and g. for a gene to

it's a crime that the country's giving him in vitro fertilization. he does not need it. he needs a bare bones catastrophic insurance plan. he needs to be able to choose something that's cheap, that would cover him in the time of an accident. this debate over health care is not a want-to debate. it's about freedom versus coercion. three months after obama care was passed kay hagan had another chance to try to make it less bad. he had a specific vote on whether or not to grandfather in people who had their insurance already, people who had chosen their doctors. kay hagan looked the other way and voted twice, first for obama care and again against allowing people the choice to choose their own doctor. i think that nothing good will happen in this country until she's gone. -- until harry reid is gone. people say is there a difference between republicans and democrats? yeah. republicans believe in balancing the budget. we had a vote on a balanced budget. where was kay hagan? voting against it. none of this will ever get a vote as long as she's in charge. the ground zero for t

. >> reporter: it's part of the new benefits package that includes in vitro fertilization and adoption coverage. but does it send the message that work comes first and family can wait? >> would you like your employer to do something like this? >> i'm in favor of things that level the playing field. >> put their career in front of starting a family. >> i hope it will catch on and more companies will see how great this is for women in general. >> it empowers women and gives them more choices. the bad is it communicates a message to women that their workplaces may not be tolerant to women who decide to have children on the job. >> reporter: new options for women who worry about clocking in and their biological clock. >> doctors say fertility drops dramatically with age and advise women who have decided to freeze their eggs not to put it off. mara schiavocampo, abc news, new york. >> that is going to be a debate for some time. >> i have to say, there's -- i would like to see more emphasis with fertility treatments. it's such a big issue for a lot of women who are trying to get pregnant and

of beers every day makes a man more than twice as likely to impregnate a woman undergoing in vitro fertilizationhan those who don't drink. but drinking more than two cups of coffee a day reduces a man's chances of becoming a father to just 1 in 5. this is interesting. >> here's the science behind it. >> i'm listening. >> this is it. caffeine can affect the man's sperm level at a molecular level. a shot of espresso contains 100 mgs of caffeine. men who drank like nearly 300 mgs or more had the least chance of becoming a dad. >> that's the science behind it? >> that's the science behind it. >> okay. we get new studies every day that tell us this or tell us that. any study that says beer is good, i think that's the headline. >> but there's a warning, of course. doctors are saying don't get boozed up just to try and become a dad. that's not necessarily the way it works. >> we don't need an excuse to get boozed up. >>> all right. let's go on to the next one. moving on. one more thing that's certain is plenty of booze going down in key west these days. that's because the annual fantasy fest is in full

it would threaten some forms of birth control and even in vitro fertilization. idea so extreme it's been defeated handley by the voters in colorado twice. and even in the state of mississippi, the voters voted it down. so i feel like cory gardner is not being straightforward with the colorado voters about where he stands on this, which is a very extreme point of view. >> let's listen to how the republican candidate handled this question in iowa. >> you supported a personhood amendment to the iowa constitution. i'm interested in how far you would be willing to go in terms of federal personhood legislation. >> i do belief in protecting life, and i believe most iowans do believe in protecting life, and so i will continue to stand by that. however, if you look at any sort of amendment at the federal level, amendments are -- they come together through consensus. honestly, we don't have a consensus. >> so there she is saying yeah, i'm all for it, but i don't think it will pass right now. >> the fact of the matter is, lawrence, these are issues that are going to be vot

enormous implications, not only just for abortion rights, but it could have implications in in vitro fertilizationbirth control, and so on. >> so some people, paul, say there's so much ambiguity, but when i looked at the laws they seemed clearcut to me and i'm not entirely sure where the ambiguity comes in. >> well i have to agree with you on that. these laws seem very, very clear. i mean some of them say and one i think the wording was what, from colorado. >> is that the one with the brady amendment, the interest of the protection of pregnant mothers and their unborn children. put it up on the screen. >> or actually the north -- >> that's not the one. >> the north dakota -- >> this one up. >> this is not a constitutional amendment. this is the -- >> this amendment 67. >> attempt to amend the criminal laws. >> hard for viewers to hear one and see another. the midterm issue is shall there be an amendment to the colorado constitution protecting pregnant women and unborn children by defining person and child. >> now let's talk about that. that's pretty specific, if they say we're going to define a pe

would clearly ban abortion, would limit early contraceptive care, early pregnancy care, in vitro fertilizationof thing. in tennessee, the measure is intended to overturn a state supreme court decision that said the constitution, the state constituti constitution, provides strong protection for a woman's right to choose. you mentioned gun control it it's very interesting in washington state. it's actually dueling propositions. one, initiative 594, would require universal background checks for all gun sales. this would close the so-called gun show loophole, regulate individual sales. then there's just the opposite. the initiative 591 would bar any background checks that are stricter than federal law. so they're mutually exclusive. on the minimum wage, four states are voting to raise it. alaska, nebraska, south dakota, arkansas. ranging anywhere from $75. 75 cents to $1 in the short term and raising it up more in the out years. in illinois, it's simply a sense of the voter kind of initiative that would be a nonbinding resolution that would say the minimum wage out to be at least $10. there's some

. >> reporter: both companies say they also cover adoption costs and in vitro fertilization. freedom. >> options like that. but the formative years of your career are the prime years to have children. >> that's the great paradox for children, the years that your career is taking off is childbearing years. critics say does this give women an excuse to put off having children? does it encourage them, and say i can just do that later? that's the question a lot of people are asking today. >> a personal choice. something that the individual has to think for themselves and their family. but freezing the eggs, it matters what age. better younger? >> it's the age of the egg that's most important, not the mother. so if you know that you want to freeze your eggs, do it as soon as you have made that decision. even in your 20s, because the younger eggs will be more viable later down the road. >> this is getting a lot of attention. >> it is. interesting debate. >> it is. thank you very much. lara? >>> you have take an selfie or two of your own face. now imagine that selfie giving you the

my unmarried 22-year-old son does not need in vitro fertilization, ok? catastrophic insurance plan. he needs choice. he needs something that cheap -- he needs something that is cheap that would cover him in an accident. this debate over health care is not about health care policy, it is about freedom versus coercion. three months after obamacare was passed, kay hagan had another chance to make it less bad. we had a specific vote on itther or not we would grant to people who had insurance already. kay hagan looked the other way and voted twice, first for obamacare and then against allowing people the choice to choose their own doctor. i think that nothing good will happen in this country until harry reid is gone. people say is there a difference between republicans and democrats? yes. republicans believe in balancing the budget. we had a vote on a balanced budget amendment. where was kay hagan? voting against balancing the budget. proposals that come from the house on less regulation. lower taxes. none of those will ever get a vote while harry reid is in charge. for taking the u.s. s

sex without reproduction since the 1970s and '80s we've had artificial insemination and in vitro fertilizationo clarify, most people will get great news back from this kind of analysis and can go back to dinner and a movie and it's great. but for people like me who are walking around with genes and genetic mutations who may put our children at risk with our reproductive partner, we have a way now to get that information at the earliest possible point in the facility journey and that's what this company is about. >> what do you say lee that, some people is saying this is like playing god, it crosses the line. >> i'd say medicine has been doing that for 200 years since we first developed vaccines and 20th century antibiotics and all of that is looking towards increasing people's likelihood of being healthy and having a normal life. >> then there's the question of designer genes. >> yes. all we are doing is seeing whether two people have mutations that are not compatible with each other and then they can -- in the future we'll be able to make sure their child is without disease. >> i was just goi

it is a crime that the country giving him in vitro fertilization. 22-year-old unmarried son doesn't need that. e needs a bare bones catastrophic insurance plan. he needs to be able to choose cheap and hat is would cover him in time of an accident. this debate over healthcare is debate.onky it is not about health care policy. versus out freedom coercion. three months after it was passed ay hagan had another chance to make it less mad. on had a specific vote whether or not we would grandfather people with who had chosendy their doctors. kay hagan looked the other way twice, first for obama care and then against allowing own e to choose their doctor. i think that nothing could appen in this country until harry reed is gone. people say is there a difference between republicans and democrats? yes. republicans believe in balancing budget. they will vote on a balanced budget. where was kay hagan? balancing the budget. we had a vote on -- we had many come from the house on less regulation, lower taxes. will ever get a vote as long as harry reed is the majority. ground zero for -- ground zero for

that i'm very familiar with, inhave it ro fertilization, which my own daughter was a prd of in vitro fertilization. it was said that this would be like monsters would be created. the kind of arguments that were made when this first occurred were very, very similar sounding. it happens with every new technology. and it just has shifted and shifted. and with gene therapy. even with evolution. listen to some of the anti-evolution arguments and they have some of the same sorts of qualities to them. dna. this is a constituent of every living thing. we ingest dna. we break it into fragments. of course we have fragments of genetics in our guts and transgenes, ones that are moved from one organism to another, of course they're there. they're 0.0001% of what's there, but the dna in one organism and another organism, it's not something different. we share half of the genes with cauliflowers because that's what we are, all life processes are the same. viral bacteria genes, we're exposed to these things all the time, not only in our guts but all around us. the large kinds of life forms, mammals are a tiny fra

that i'm very familiar with, invitro fertilization, which my own daughter was a product of in vitro fertilization. it was said that this would be like monsters would be created. the kind of arguments that were made when this first occurred were very, very similar sounding. it happens with every new technology. and it just has shifted and shifted. and with gene therapy. even with evolution. listen to some of the anti-evolution arguments and they have some of the same sorts of qualities to them. dna. this is a constituent of every living thing. we ingest dna. we break it into fragments. of course we have fragments of genetics in our guts and transgenes, ones that are moved from one organism to another, of course they're there. they're 0.0001% of what's there, but the dna in one organism and another organism, it's not something different. we share half of the genes with cauliflowers because that's what we are, all life processes are the same. viral bacterial genes, we're exposed to these things all the time, not only in our guts but all around us. the large kinds of life forms, mammals are a tiny fr

outlawing certain kinds of contraception, having it, no affect on end-of-life decisions, in vitro fertilizationthere is a particular ideological agenda that drives that isike cory gardner really out of step with mainstream values. it is about legislating a kind that fundamentally, americans believe it is part of why americans live in a free country, so we get to decide what a family is for ourselves. host: texas, tom, a republican there. caller: thank you for taking my call. wondering, if something was created to determine if a child in the womb was homosexual, would you object to abortions of those homosexuals? if so, on what basis? guest: i do not think that exists and i'm not particularly interested in doing with hypotheticals. i am from texas as well. a fourth-generation texan. thatnk those hypotheticals are not actually grounded in reality is the kind of thing that drives the extreme legislation we have seen take over my home state of texas and it is hurting women. most women facing unintended pregnancies have very valid and personal decisions -- regions that drives them to make that decis

that i'm very familiar with, inhave it ro fertilization, which my own daughter was a prd of in vitro fertilization. it was said that this would be like monsters would be created. the kind of arguments that were made when this first occurred were very, very similar sounding. it happens with every new technology. and it just has shifted and shifted. and with gene therapy. even with evolution. listen to some of the anti-evolution arguments and they have some of the same sorts of qualities to them. dna. this is a constituent of every living thing. we ingest dna. we break it into fragments. of course we have fragments of genetics in our guts and transgenes, ones that are moved from one organism to another, of course they're there. they're 0.0001% of what's there, but the dna in one organism and another organism, it's not something different. we share half of the genes with cauliflowers because that's what we are, all life processes are the same. viral bacteria genes, we're exposed to these things all the time, not only in our guts but all around us. the large kinds of life forms, mammals are a tiny fra

for example, what about a woman who has a miscarriage or fertility medicine and in vitro that the catholics. embryos are created and discarded if they don't get implanted. why is the embryo in a petri dish not a person, but once it's in the woman it is a person? it's about something else. it's about women. because the effects of so broad, people can see they will have unintended consequences and vote against it. >> whatever the out come of these measures, where do you see this going next? is this going to be addressed by the courts that will make it to the supreme court again? >> that's the idea. why we are seeing 2010 when the republicans are well, 205 new restrictions on abortions have been passed. some of us in flagrant violations. the ban on abortion. and i think the intention, yes, let's get it before the court and hopefully get it after this incident who are more anti-choice. the next election will be very important. >> why is it we are at a state level seeing so much push back against row v wade? >> some people are very opposed to abortion. they have what i call it a very successful