No more anonymous sperm donors in B.C.

(May 23, 2011)   Olivia Pratten wins her lawsuit. The Supreme Court of British Columbia agrees with her on banning anonymous donation. Clinics must preserve their records of sperm donation. Both adopted children and donor offspring need to know about their biological roots ...

Québec goes ahead with free IVF

(Sept. 16, 2010)   Premier Jean Charest fulfills a promise: free IVF in Québec. Other provinces are not so generous. Manitoba offers a fertility treatment tax credit. No change in Ontario, which ignores its Expert Panel on infertility. Charitable funds help pay for IVF in Alberta and British Columbia ...

Time to fund IVF: Ontario infertility panel

(Aug. 26, 2009)   David Johnston, chair of the Expert Panel on Infertility, calls on the province of Ontario to pay for three IVF cycles, plus the cost of freezing and storing embryos. Would-be parents can only hope the province will heed the call to bring in government-subsidized infertility treatment ...

Egg donors get up to $10,000

(Mar. 2, 2009)   In tough times women are tempted to sell their eggs at U.S. fertility clinics, especially when up to $10,000 is on offer. The ideal egg donor is "in her twenties, healthy, attractive and well-educated". You need to allow up to eight weeks but can go to work or school as usual, with a day off for egg retrieval ...

Vatican condemns IVF

(Dec. 12, 2008)   The Catholic Church says many procedures which infertile couples use to get pregnant are immoral. The document "Dignitas Personae", approved by Pope Benedict XVI, condemns in-vitro fertilization and other artificial reproductive technologies. It says life begins at conception ...

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A compendium of fertility news from 2008 to 2011, with emphasis on the Canadian perspective. News items were written by Robin Hilborn, editor of Family Helper magazine and author of Family Helper web site, www.familyhelper.net.
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(Nov. 24, 2008)   The world's first whole ovary transplant resulted in a healthy baby girl born in London ...

Free IVF in Quebec: Liberals to cover cost of treatments

(Nov. 24, 2008)   Election carrot would cost Quebec taxpayers $35 million in the first year and double the demand for IVF ...

Egg donations drop 70% at Montreal fertility clinic

(Nov. 21, 2008)   A year after a ban on paying for eggs, the number of egg donors at the McGill Reproductive Centre dropped 70% ...

Sperm donor offspring seeks her biological father

(Nov. 12, 2008)   Olivia Pratten sues B.C. government so that donor offspring can identify their biological parents ...

Ontario convenes expert panel on infertility and adoption

(July 12, 2008)   Panel will recommend ways to make fertility treatment and adoption more accessible and affordable ...