There is no cure for Huntington's disease, and kids of parents with the disease have a 50% chance of getting it.
"Once you live with someone that's had it or somebody in your family has it and you understand, like, how just devastating this is, like, you just watch people deteriorate within a couple years, like, right in front of your face and turn into people and do things that is not them," Smith said.
Smith said he decided not to test for the gene that causes Huntington's disease."It's tough. It's, like, there's no treatment. There's no cure. Like, what am I gonna do?" he said. "Not a single family should be held back from preventing their child from having Huntington's disease or even going through fertility treatments because money stands in the way. So that gave me all the, I guess, confidence and fulfillment I needed in making the decision to put all of our efforts towards IVF for families," LaForce said.
"It's not just that your kids don't have Huntington's. Their kids will never have Huntington's. You're eliminating it from an entire family line forever which is eradicating a disease one family at a time," LaForce said.
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