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April 23, 2012
Importing Eggs
Usually I can see the controversy coming, but this time I didn’t. I was driving to work listening to CBC Radio One, and a lead news story was on the importation of frozen eggs from the USA. The story suggested this practice was questionable, ethically and legally.
We’ve had the ability to freeze and thaw human sperm and embryos for over three decades. Consequently, sperm and embryos are quite successfully frozen and shipped all around the world on a regular basis.
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October 26, 2010All over the news...
In my drive to work today Olivia Pratten, 28, was being interviewing on CBC Radio One. Olivia found out 5 years ago that she was conceived using donor sperm. Since then she has tried to gain access to the sperm donor’s personal and medical records.
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September 25, 2010Horrible
The past week has been filled with stories of families in Ottawa who have come to learn that their children where not created with the sperm they believed they were. Several patients of Dr. Bernard Norman Barwin in Ottawa, Ontario were inseminated with the husband’s sperm or anonymous donor sperm to conceive their child. They have now discovered someone else’s sperm was used. So children are not a genetic match to their fathers or their donor.