News: Legislation

Updated: Jul 9/10

CANADA
• New reproductive technology board belies expert selection process (By Laura Eggertson. CMAJ, Feb 27/07)
• Ottawa, Quebec fight for jurisdiction over controversial fertility treatments (Canadian Press. Apr 22/09)
• Baby By Stealth: Reproduction law forcing 'dangerous alternatives'  (Mar 12/10. National Post)
• The Human Egg Trade (By Alison Motluk. April/10. The Walrus)
• Canada turns a blind eye to egg 'donor' grey market (Mar 22/10. BioNews)
(NB. The penalty under Section 60  - "Offences" of the Assisted Human Reproduction Act, is a fine of up to $500,000, not £5,000 as quoted in this article, & 10 years in jail.)
• 'Baby by Stealth' only covers one side of complex argument (by Juliet Guichon. Mar 23/10. University of Calgary Medicine)
• Two quit board of Canadian fertility watchdog (Apr 16/10. BioNews)
• ‘Red Flag’ raised at fertility agency [AHRC] (By Tom Blackwell, National Post. Apr 20/10)
• 'Two quit board of Canadian fertility watchdog' (Apr 26/10. BioNews)
• 'Mysterious departures from Assisted Human Reproduction Canada' (by Hélène Buzzetti. Apr 27/10. Le Devoir)
• Fertility law leaves us in limbo, doctors say (By Tom Blackwell. National Post. Apr 30/10)
• Third board member quits fertility industry watchdog (by Tom Blackwell. National Post. May 31/10)
• Fertility spending at issue (by Tom Blackwell, National Post. Jun 1/10)
• Board members flee federal agency (By Christina Spencer, Parliamentary Bureau. Jun 2/10. Canoe.ca)
• Assisted Human Reproduction Canada (AHRC) (Jun 2/10. CBC Radio. Interview with Jocelyn Downie, Canada Research Chair, Health Law & Policy; Dr. John Hamm, Chair, AHRC Board of Directors)
• Fertile ground for waste and futility (By Mindelle Jacobs. Edmonton Sun. Jun 4/10)
• Reproductive agency losses alarming: expert (By Christina Spencer, Toronto Sun. Jun 3/10)
• Assisted Reproduction Canada - Three resignations amid mismanagement (by Hélène Buzzetti. Jun 5/10. Le Devoir)
• Canadian parliament must act on assisted human reproduction (By Prof Jocelyn Downie. BioNews. Jun 7/10)
• Another member leaves Canada's AHRC (Jun 7/10. BioNews 561)
• Former Royal Commission Chair comments on problems at Assisted Human Reproduction Canada (Jun 10, 2010. By Dr. Patricia Baird)
• Shut Canada's fertility-industry watchdog down: MP (By Tom Blackwell. National Post. Jun 15/10)
• Head of reproductive agency defends travel (By Christina Spencer, Parliamentary Bureau, Canoe.ca. Jun 15/10)
• AHRC President & Chair appear before Health Committee (Jun 15/10)
• Assisted Human Reproduction Canada - Travel by the President to Vancouver cost $77,000 (By Hélène Buzzetti. Jun 15/10. Le Devoir)
• Fertility industry watchdog criticized (Ottawa Citizen, Jun 16/10. By Tom Blackwell, National Post)
• Critics demand change at reproductive health agency (By Laura Eggertson. Jun 18/10. Canadian Medical Association Journal)
• Assisted Human Reproduction Canada - The federal agency torpedos itself.
The body that is supposed to oversee fertility clinics funds a study aimed at demonstrating that the federal law is unworkable. (By Hélène Buzzetti. Jun 18/10. Le Devoir)

TURKEY
• Overseas [gamete donation] outlawed by Turkey (Mar 22/10. BioNews)
• Problems with legislating against 'reproductive tourism' (By Zeynep Gürtin-Broadbent. Mar 22/10. BioNews)

UK
• Performance review of fertility watchdog [HFEA] published (Dec 7/09. BioNews)
• Fertility watchdog [HFEA] slated for inaction over poorly run clinics (Dec 12/09. BioEdge)
• UK law change allows same-sex couples to become legal parents (Mar 29/10. BioNews)