Regulating Creation

Trudo Lemmens is Professor and Scholl Chair in Health Law and Policy in the Faculty of Law, the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, and the Joint Centre for Bioethics at the University of Toronto. Andrew Flavelle Martin is a SSHRC Bombardier CGS Scholar & Doctoral Candidate, University of Toronto Faculty of Law. Cheryl Milne is the Executive Director of the David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights in the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto. Ian B. Lee is an associate professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto.

List of Contributors

Trudo Lemmens & Andrew Flavelle Martin  Introduction

Part 1: Background to the Reference re: Assisted Human Reproduction Act and Constitutional Law and Federalism Perspectives

Chapter 1: Bernard M. Dickens An Historical Introduction to the Supreme Court’s Decision on the Assisted Human Reproduction Act

Chapter 2: Ian B Lee Licensing and the AHRA Reference

Chapter 3: Hoi Kong The Federalism Implications of the Assisted Human Reproduction Act Reference

Chapter 4: Glenn Rivard Federal and Provincial Jurisdictions with respect to Health:  Struggles amid Symbiosis

 

Part 2: Family Law and Children’s Rights Perspectives

Chapter 5: Carol Rogerson Determining Parentage in Cases Involving Assisted Reproduction: An Urgent Need for Provincial Legislative Action 

Chapter 6: Michelle Giroux & Cheryl Milne The Right to Know One’s Origins, the AHRA Reference and Pratten v AGBC: A Call for Provincial Legislative Action                                                                                           

Chapter 7: Vanessa Gruben A Number but No Name: Is There a Constitutional Right to Know One’s Sperm Donor in Canadian Law?

Chapter 8: Juliet Guichon The Priority of the Health and Well-being of Offspring: The Challenge of Canadian Provincial and Territorial Adoption Disclosure Law to Anonymity in Gamete and Embryo Provision (“Donor” Conception)

Chapter 9: Jeanne Snelling A Time for Change? The Divergent Approach of Canada and New Zealand to Donor Conception and Donor Identification 

Chapter 10: Jennifer M. Speirs What adoption law suggests about donor anonymity policies: a UK perspective 

 

Part 3: Commodification and commercialization of Assisted Human Reproduction, Access and Funding of AHR, and the Role of Law

Chapter 11: Lisa C. Ikemoto Assisted Reproductive Technology Use among Neighbors: Commercialization Concerns in Canada and the United States, in the Global Context 

Chapter 12: Susan G. Drummond Fruitful Diversity: Revisiting the Enforceability of Gestational Carriage Contracts 

Chapter 13: Stu Marvel et al Listening to LGBTQ People on Assisted Human Reproduction: Access to Reproductive Material, Services and Facilities 

Chapter 14: Colleen M Flood & Bryan Thomas, Regulatory Failure: The Case of the Private-For-Profit IVF Sector  

Chapter 15: Sarah Hudson Great Expectations: Access to Assisted Reproductive Services and Reproductive Rights  

Chapter 16: Trudo Lemmens The Commodification of Gametes: Why Prohibiting Untrammelled Commercialization Matters

 

Appendix: Expert Reports

Appendix 1: Françoise Baylis  The Regulation of Assisted Human Reproductive Technologies and Related Research: A Public Health, Safety and Morality Argument [Expert Opinion for the Federal Government]

Appendix 2: Bartha M. Knoppers & Élodie Petit Quebec: A pioneer in the Regulation of AHR and Reserch in Canada [Expert Opinion for the Government of Quebec]