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Inside the Hidden Global Supply Chain for Frozen Sperm, Eggs, and Embryos

In a world with porous borders and wildly divergent surrogacy laws, making a baby can be a global affair: The eggs might come from a woman in South Africa, the sperm from a man in Canada, and the surrogate herself might be in Cambodia. What connects them, literally, is a cold chain.

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Canada Will Partially Fund IVF Treatments For Women Under 43 — Fingers Crossed The U.S. Follows Their Lead

This week, though, thousands of would-be parents in Canada scored a major victory: On Thursday, Health Minister Eric Hoskins announced that the Ontario government will partially fund in vitro fertilization treatments for women 43-years-old and younger.

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Abandoned Embryos: Clinics Ethically Free to Dispose of Thousands of Embryos Frozen in Time, Doctors’ Group Says

It is the most emotionally charged issue in assisted baby-making: how to “dispose” of the thousands of human embryos that sit frozen in time in fertility clinics across Canada, believed abandoned by the couples that created them.