Media Highlights
19 November 2014
The More You Know: The Ethics of Prenatal Testing
Expectant parents can spend hours pondering what their unborn baby will look like. Will he or she inherit typically desirable traits—like height, athletic ability or a cute dimple—or less coveted ones, like problem skin or crooked teeth?
21 October 2014
More Canadian Women Seek Egg Freezing
According to a recent study in the medical journal Lancet every woman in her 20's or 30'’s should have the chance to freeze her eggs in case she wants to get pregnant later in life.
03 August 2014
Controversial Decision by Calgary Clinic
Dr Al Yuzpe talks to Jill Bennett about the controversial decision of a Calgary Fertility Clinic to not allow a single woman to chose a sperm donor of a different race.
06 July 2014
Delay having a baby? Make sure you understand the consequences (before it’s too late)
The art of being a woman is shared between friends, sisters, mothers, and daughters, and aunts and nieces. We might learn to shave our legs from our mother, tie a sari from our grandmother, walk in high heels from our sister, or make an old family recipe from our aunt. The art is interpreted and improved by the women in our lives with the goal of raising us to a higher aesthetic, domestic, or cultural level. What about the science of being a woman? Here we are falling short.
19 June 2014
Worth the Wait: a Public Figure's Private Struggle with Fertility
"For all the ups and downs we've been through, every time I look at Teagan my heart is full and there are no regrets." - Lynn Colliar
19 June 2014
Two Provinces Fund IVF, but not BC
CTV News