00:35:07.860A couple who dreamed of becoming parents to a healthy newborn, now suing their fertility clinic tonight.
00:35:13.160They said the clinic implanted the wrong embryo, which has now put their child's life at stake.
00:35:18.220Fox 11's Chelsea Edwards has the story.
00:35:21.120We had visions of what his life was going to be like, living a normal life.
00:35:24.900When Melissa and Jason Diaz decided to start a family, they were determined not to pass on certain cancer-causing genes that run on their families.
00:35:33.080We wanted our children to not have any worry regarding these types of genetic mutations that we carry.
00:35:39.460So we try to do everything in our power to give them a fighting chance at life with a healthy life.
00:35:44.680So they chose to undergo genetic testing and in-vitro fertilization through Huntington Reproductive Center in Pasadena.
00:35:50.900But attorneys say the wrong embryo was transferred to Melissa, which carried the rare and deadly cancer gene they tried to eliminate by going through IVF.
00:36:14.940Everything we could do that was in our power we tried to do.
00:36:17.360Everything available from technology to date we did.
00:36:22.020And we followed all their orders and everything that we needed to do.
00:36:25.760Melissa first noticed the error on a medical report she requested from HRC about ten months after her son was born in 2021.
00:36:32.220Handwritten notes on that report indicated that the embryo, which became her baby boy, indeed carried the CDH1 gene, the very one that caused Jason's stomach cancer.
00:37:35.600I'm telling you, these guys all look the same.
00:37:38.280They are like, this is a booming industry.
00:37:40.980...against the clinic and Dr. Bradford Kolb, claiming negligence, malpractice, battery, misuse of embryos, and fraudulent concealment.
00:37:48.400And maybe by having this conversation right now, we can lend our little bit of support to changing processes, to changing regulations, to having some sort of framework to minimize or hopefully completely eliminate.
00:38:02.120When you think about it, women are the biggest eugenicists.
00:38:05.960Like, women are the real racist sexists or whatever.
00:38:09.540Like, they'll abort their kid if it's not the right dad or the right sex.
00:38:14.160Like, they're the OG, like, eugenicists, when you think about it.
00:48:41.080Because to me, the saddest thing I've ever seen a woman go through is, okay, women, they say they don't want kids when they're young because they want some kind of control.
00:48:52.060Like, oh, I don't want kids because it's cool to say, you know, to fight the patriarchy and being a breeding, a breeder if they say they don't want kids.
00:49:01.240But they're leaving off the last part of the sentence.
00:49:04.140They don't want to have kids until they've got a bachelor's degree or a master's degree or they make six figures or they buy a house or they've been to Turks and Caicos, all these different places.
00:49:13.440But most women will cross that stuff off their list, and they want to have kids, but by then it's too late.
00:49:20.060So, I had a friend who was a teacher for 20 years, and she got to be a vice principal, and she married this guy, and she wanted to have kids at 43 years old.
00:49:31.640And she went through three rounds of IVF and couldn't have a kid.
00:49:34.720So, now, she's crushed because she didn't have a kid, and she's around kids every single day because she worked in a school.
00:49:42.100Don't you think she didn't want kids then?
00:49:45.160Because, like, if she wanted to, she would have did it.
00:51:38.660And even worse are these—because, guys, put in the chat what are the worst—what's the worst kind of single mother?
00:51:47.460The one that was married and divorced who's a single mom, the baby mama who's never married, or the single mother by choice?
00:51:56.600Because, in my opinion, the single mothers by choice, these women who choose to go through IVF with sperm that they don't even know who the father is, so their child's never going to know their father, and have a baby through IVF, these women are the scum of the earth.
00:52:49.720Like, it's like the women that put their kids in daycare.
00:52:52.720I mean, there's a difference—like, I know there's some where they have no choice, but a lot have a choice and just don't want to be a mother, right?
00:53:04.960And you'll still see—okay, when the fastest-growing group of single mothers—when I was young, it was teenage mothers, like 15 to, like, 18 or 19, right?
00:53:18.000Now it's women between the ages of 33 to 37.
00:54:10.920Or the sperm—like the ones that go—I know someone that did sperm donation, and she was pretty old, and her kid has, like, a birth defect because of it.
00:54:32.920God, man, I'm not going to—you know, I think the reason why there's so many children with developmental delays and birth defects is because older women are having older children with their older eggs.
00:54:47.880I don't have any scientific backing for that, but if you ask me, that's what I think it is.
00:54:53.060We got Matt coming in, and I'm going to read the chat while he comes in.
00:55:01.220A guy can do it at any time within reason, so they get the career and the money to care for the wife who concentrates on the child-rearing.
00:55:09.620Children require a lot of energy from their parents.
00:55:12.000The younger the parents, the more energy they have, they're healthier, too.
01:03:42.300And how many rounds did you guys do before you got pregnant each time?
01:03:47.860So when we found out she was not able to have children, uh, naturally because endometriosis
01:03:53.680ravaged her reproductive organs, um, she was 32.
01:04:00.320Uh, so we made the decision, let's go all in on IVF because nothing else is going to work.
01:04:05.860So our first retrieval, which is the process of getting the eggs and harvesting just eggs, uh, she, she produced a lot of eggs.
01:04:15.520So that's the most expensive part because after you do that, uh, well, assuming you're going to fertilize them immediately, which is recommended when you're fertilized, when you're harvesting the eggs, um, the embryos are created.
01:04:27.380So that's the most expensive part that was around 40,000 to $50,000.
01:08:09.140I mean, some women don't need to be having kids.
01:08:11.800Um, they probably shouldn't have kids.
01:08:13.420Those women who were probably saying that just speaking directly because it's a bad decision.
01:08:18.860If, if, if, if, if, if a woman graduating college, um, don't do not rely on IVF.
01:08:29.220Do not rely on, uh, uh, science because it's not, the journey is, is a lot darker than you think.
01:08:36.300You're going to have to put your body through a lot, your mind through a lot, and your, your plan for life regarding money, uh, through a lot.
01:08:43.980So it's, it's not a good decision to, to walk, to, uh, use that as a family planning tactic.
01:08:49.940And I think it should be reserved for, for people who are infertile, not because people are thinking they can tailor their life.
01:08:58.320Did she know she had endometriosis or was that something she found out?
01:09:02.520No, it was something we found out during the infertility stage.
01:09:18.120Um, there were some, uh, there was some pain, uh, traditionally you hear that there's like immense, you know, uh, uh, 10 out of 10 pain, but hers was, you know, more seven out of eight pain during menstruation and cramps.
01:09:32.980I guess, uh, it, it feels like the worst cramps you ever had, but, uh, hers were pretty mild.
01:09:37.940So it wasn't immediately noticeable for her.
01:09:41.320Some, some women, they, they, um, they get the symptoms a lot sooner, uh, and a lot more severe than my wife did.
01:09:50.460So the single mothers by choice that, that willingly go through IVF by themselves, or they get inseminated by themselves, I say are the, are the worst women on the planet.
01:10:03.300And, um, uh, I, the only child syndrome is a real thing, but I've always wondered these women who have an only child, but they paid like $50,000 to have that child.
01:10:17.380Is that going to make them even more of a spoiled brat?
01:10:20.100And I say this because do you see, I mean, this is, you don't have to answer because I don't know.
01:10:36.240Like, is, is that a, is that a factor into your parenting or how you see your children at all?
01:10:41.140The fact that you had to spend that amount of money, because I think that, um, we're going to have a bunch of single mothers by choice who are going to spoil their kids rotten and let them get away with everything.
01:10:52.060Because they paid 40, $50,000 for their child.
01:10:56.420Yeah, I think for just personally, no, but I think that's an interesting thought that you have.
01:11:01.900Um, I would say personally, no, for me, because, um, being a mother was something, my wife, um, you know, it was kind of a, a thing that she's always dreamt about.
01:11:13.300Um, but it was never, you know, it was just more, more that than, um, I need to have this because, you know, if I'm not this, uh, I don't know.
01:11:25.940I think sometimes women think of children as accessories and then once they get presented with motherhood, it's, it's an inconvenience.
01:11:34.320And I think that's where the spoiling comes in because you're just trying to get the child to get away from you or to, you know, to be the good accessory that you want it to be.
01:11:44.500I think that might have a little to do with it, but that's just, that's, that's interesting thought though.
01:11:49.040Um, what were the side effects that she had?
01:11:52.120You said it's a lot darker than like they say.
01:11:57.540I think fertility issues for women are, is, is very, is a very dark thing for women to experience.
01:12:04.060Um, because we're talking about a woman going into the proposition of being a mother and that brings up a lot of emotions.
01:12:12.300I think that we're, we're not previously there for women if, if they were, you know, preoccupied with other things, for instance, um, you know, our journey was, okay.
01:12:21.740We thought we're doing the right thing.
01:12:24.020My wife, you know, her thought was I did the right thing.
01:12:26.420I'm going to get married, you know, after I'm, you know, established in my career a bit.
01:12:31.120And, uh, which is why, you know, she got married at 29, but not only the previous man she was with, she was with for 10 years and he just kind of never proposed or, um, never kind of showed initiative to want to marry her.
01:12:48.440And, uh, you know, when we was to have a family, she was, so we got married, but, you know, when you're dealing with,
01:12:56.320fertility problems, uh, and then you're presented with the fact that you might not be able to ever have children, you, uh, enter into this kind of, uh, reality of like, I never thought my life would not involve having a family.
01:13:10.200And for a lot of women and a lot of men too, it becomes very depressing.
01:13:13.740And then you have to deal with, uh, navigating the medical system, uh, while you're depressed, while you're downtrodden.
01:13:21.760Um, there's a lot of trauma that comes with, uh, fertility treatment when you're, when you're not successful, when you're spending all this money and then it's not working.
01:13:32.580Um, or, you know, for instance, if you're waiting way later, my wife was 32 and she had her egg retrieval and we had 28 eggs, uh, which didn't all make it to the embryo stage.
01:14:01.960Um, and, and, and these women are usually older, uh, just, you know, because as you age every year after 35, I think the amount of eggs you start to produce lessens by 10%.
01:14:12.500Um, and then at 35, it's already really low.
01:24:35.220And then the brat, the rapper, her and her wife, uh, they, they took her wife's eggs out because she was 40 and the brat was 47.
01:24:48.040So they took the wife's eggs out, but she had a bunch of, she had a bunch of blood clots and complications from the egg retrieval process that they recommend that she not carry the child.
01:24:58.000Um, so they got the egg fertilized and then the brat, the rapper carried the child and gave birth to the child.
01:38:58.020And if you, some of the people that understand the religion out there, especially Muslim religion,
01:39:04.240feminism is not something which should have affected us.
01:39:08.340Because the way Islam talks about women, except the Fox News and, you know, ABC, whatever news channels you guys are watching there.
01:39:19.420Women already have a lot of rights, which in post-1900 women in America and Europe got.
01:39:26.100When we had those rights in our culture since the beginning.
01:39:30.520So if we take the litmus test of modern Islamic, so-called Islamic countries, that's not a justice with the religion, to be very honest with you.
01:39:40.040So Muslims are very immune to this thing that it's not going to affect us because we hear women don't like to go out work.
01:39:48.700Muslim women, they think that the best thing they can have is a good husband that takes care of them.
01:39:52.540OK, but now when you get shamed for choosing the motherhood, it eventually catches up.
01:40:01.540So young women that are going to universities, that are watching YouTube and all the, you know, Netflix and all that stuff.
01:40:08.820So they think that they know something better.
01:40:32.280So we have Christian feminism in the West, especially in the United States, where women in church, and you've probably seen stories about it.
01:40:43.300Is there that going on in Pakistan with a Christian kind of Islam?
01:40:47.460I'm sorry, a feminist kind of Islam developing?
01:40:50.420Yeah, women wish they should bring something where they can demean men.
01:40:56.860But the thing is, our society is mostly predominantly patriarchal because men do most of the work.
01:41:04.460In Third World Nation, you know, you cannot afford to be a feminist because life is not that easy.
01:41:08.380When you go out, you know, you don't get to be, I would say, being in an air conditioning transport, going to the work, and you have, like, privileges and all that.
01:41:22.320This is like a cutthroat society where everybody is trying to make their living.
01:41:25.640So they're trying to become that, but when they go out, when they face the music in the real society, they understand the better ways to be sit at home and, or maybe, you know, do something like business-wise and have a husband that takes care of them.
01:41:48.100Thank you so much for having me, and I really appreciate you guys keep discussing such things that really, you know, I would say make a difference.
01:42:22.500And based on the steam that you're having tonight, I've been listening very carefully, but I don't really see lots of that problem on here, you know, with women saving the eggs and stuff like that.
01:43:12.760Because it's like, I don't know, sometimes, sometimes I listen to Pearl team and like, you know, some of those team, like feminist things and stuff like that.
01:43:26.200You know, some of them we do have, but really like this kind, you know, let's go back to finance.
01:43:34.800People don't even have money for that.
01:43:36.900So, you know, and they're very, percentage is very low in barring women.
01:43:45.600So, you know, you got a lot of people who, even though we have kids like 15, 16 years having babies, you know, very good.
01:45:26.320So, so would you, would you do it if you were, if you had a wife or a girlfriend that had fertility issues or would you dump her and find someone younger?
01:45:39.400Well, to be honest with you, I wouldn't mind having somebody younger, but the problem is I ain't really attractive very much in my demographic of the world, unfortunately.
01:45:49.040So, yeah, I'm in near, I'm in Winnipeg, actually, and then I'm kind of heading, getting ready to move further north there into Toulon, Manitoba.
01:46:23.420Like, the kind of, like, the kind of women out here are not bad, but they're just, okay, Manitoba is, like, this weird zombified province, okay?
01:46:35.320It's like, okay, you know, if the universities I go to, you think that there's going to be dorm rooms of lots of fucking, you know, you see all, you know, you go into, say, what do you call it, like UCLA, whatever it is, and you've got the protests.
01:46:49.140We're going to snop out all those Christians, and we want anti-abortion and pro-abortion, and you've got all these people that are ready to kill each other.
01:46:57.080So you've got a little bit here in Manitoba, there, like, in the University of Manitoba, for instance, and everybody's like, yeah, we don't like abortion, and everybody's just like, eh, you know, whatever.
01:48:54.240I don't think, I've never even seen the procedure available anywhere in this part of the country.
01:48:58.840I'm pretty sure it might be somewhere.
01:49:00.260But I've just never heard of it even for being offered in this area.
01:49:04.780So when you meet your, like, maple syrup queen up there, you can, you have to, you'll fly her to, like, you'll fly her to, to wherever, whatever the big cities are in Canada.
01:49:36.880Like, there's all kinds of things that can be done.
01:49:39.600Like, for God's sakes, you know, there might even, I've come across some really interesting research in, actually, believe it or not, in electromagnetics.
01:49:47.380This is very advanced electromagnetics.
01:49:49.240I bet you the other guy that from Pakistan would love, I'd love to have a conversation with him.
01:49:54.460That there may actually be possible to, like, for instance, a 20-year-old woman, if you were to grab a bunch of her eggs, that you could actually almost digitize the complete genome section into a computer and then actually put it back in.
01:50:11.860You could see if the kid's going to be ugly or not.
01:50:17.820It might be possible to digitally change DNA.
01:50:21.760Like, it might actually be possible, like, to reach your ovaries or eggs or whatever is your ovaries and re-stripe them like a VHS cassette.
01:51:15.100I came across Russian research, which I kind of lost during a police raid, but it was very, very in-depth, about a woman in their 90s growing back her teeth by taking light from one of their daughters.
01:51:31.120So laser light would shine on the gums and then come back out through a quartz fiber back to her mother and shine that light onto the damaged section of the mouth and able to actually regrow the tooth.
01:51:48.140And part of the reason why is, as you age, it's like having a VHS tape or a cassette tape and the tape gets chewed up.
01:51:55.560But if you're able to restructure that genetic sequence, which much of it exists if you had offspring, there's entirely possible that the immune system can actually rebuild that damaged section of DNA.
01:52:08.640So presumably, isn't that what Assassin's Creed the game is about?
01:52:23.840Well, actually, you know what, there might be something to that, unfortunately, which is, I won't get into it now, because if you want to know more, I can give you more of my awful life error.
01:52:32.220But I've seen two stories where the daughter had something go wrong with her uterus where she couldn't carry a child.
01:52:42.280So her husband and the daughter had the mother carry their child.
01:52:47.800So the mother gave birth to the grandchild.
01:52:50.880Then I saw a story where the son was infertile, so the father, they used the father's sperm to impregnate his wife.
01:53:19.680You have to understand, you can do this all with computers now.
01:53:22.620Analog to digital conversion technology and instrumentation is so advanced now that there is more than enough computing power to be able to digitize enough of the genome spectrum at high bid rates to be able to take it off of, say, a sperm sample and re-stripe it onto another sperm sample.
01:53:44.340There is more than enough technology to do that now.