Fertility: 40 Years of Change

Preface

• Preliminary Sections
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Prologue - The Story Begins

Part One - IVF

• In vitro Fertilization
• Establishing Rules for IVF
• The Federal Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies
• The Federal Government's Response
• The Constitutional Division of Powers in Canada
• The Court Challenges to the Act
• The Law in Limbo

Part Two - Provincial Legislation

• Provincial and Territorial Laws Respond
• The Provinces and Territories Amend Their Family Laws
• The Legal Status of a Child in Canada

Part Three - Research on Human Embryos

• Research and the Human Embryo
• Stem Cell Research
• Legal Issues: Genetic Testing and Discrimination
• Genome Editing - Research and Reproduction
• The Birth of Children with an Altered Genome and the International Responses

Part Four - Looking to the Future

• Public Policy and Legal Challenges Ahead
• Conclusion
• Appendix 1 - Provincial Fertility Coverage Regimes
• Appendix 2 - The Status of the 2004 Assisted Human Reproduction Act Provisions
• Appendix 3 - 2004 Assisted Human Reproduction Act Regulations - Coming into Force (CIF)
• Appendix 4 - Judicial Decisions - Treatment of Human Embryos and Organs in Tax Cases
• Appendix 5 - The Provincial Legislative Definitions of Tissue
• Appendix 6 - Consent, Refusal, Embryo as Property
• Notes
• Glossary
• Additional Sources
• Index