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On March 31, 2013 Assisted Human Reproduction Canada (AHRC) closed its doors for good. With the demise of AHRC, responsibility for administering and enforcing the and its regulations now falls to .

How will Health Canada manage this obligation, given its longstanding failure to develop the regulations that AHRC was to have administered and enforced? Since 2004, Health Canada has only issued one set of regulations – the Consent to Use regulations. Long awaited are the regulations governing the reimbursement of expenditures (). Without these regulations there is no way to legally reimburse expenses incurred in the course of donating sperm, ova, embryos, or surrogacy services.

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Françoise Baylis, Journal of Obestetrics and Gynaecology Canada, (2012) 34(6): 511-513.

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Françoise Baylis, Journal of Obestetrics and Gynaecology Canada, (2012) 34(5): 415.

Anne Kingston, Macleans, April 2, 2012

Tom Blackwell, National Post, March 30, 2012

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Françoise Baylis, Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology Canada, (2011) 33(4):317-319.