Media Highlights
Weekend Morning News 2: Health News
Some changes are coming in Ontario when it comes to fertility treatments and how much the government will pay for couples to access certain treatments. That move has some questioning whether or not certain changes should be made in BC.
Gay Male Couples Face More Hurdles on Path to Parenthood
Times, they have changed. In the 1970s, our understanding of reproduction had advanced enough that we could start to help infertile couples conceive. Fertility clinics opened and test-tube babies became a reality. Back then, the math of fertility was simple: Egg + sperm + uterus = baby. Heterosexual couples would go to a fertility clinic and their eggs, sperm and uterus would be assessed. The fertility doctors would hopefully fix the couple’s problem and sometimes a baby would follow.
Buying time: How egg freezing has moved into the mainstream
As more Canadian women turn to egg freezing to focus on building careers or as they wait for the right partner, the Globe’s Carly Weeks explores the fertility business, its procedures, and promises that might be too good to be true.
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?
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.
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.