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Helping people who otherwise might never have had children become parents is becoming a big business in the U.S. But advances in reproductive technology - from in vitro fertilization to egg and sperm donation and surrogacy - are also raising ethical and societal issues. A look at how science is helping those who otherwise might never have had their own genetic children... and the questions it is raising for parents, partners and society.
Dr. Kathy Hudson, founder of the Pew-funded Genetics and Public Policy Center at Johns Hopkins University.
Dr. Robert Stillman, Medical Director of Shady Grove Fertility Center, in Washington, DC and Baltimore.
Liza Mundy, feature writer at "The Washington Post Magazine" and author of the new book, "Everything Conceivable: How Assisted Reproduction is Changing Men, Women, and the World."
The Former Speaker of the House offers his assessment of the 2008 presidential candidates and whether he will join their ranks. He also presents the first in a new Pacific war series of novels written with historian William Forstchen. It imagines how one additional man within the Japanese force attacking Pearl Harbor on December 8, 1941, could have changed the course of history.
Newt Gingrich, former Republican congressman from Georgia and Speaker of the House.
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