FFP 199 | Fertility Law | Assisted Reproductive Technology | Sara Cohen

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Sara is a fertility law lawyer based in Toronto, with clients throughout Canada and beyond. She is the founder of Fertility Law Canada and a partner at D2Law LLP where her practice is exclusively devoted to fertility law.  She approaches fertility law with the compassion, empathy and the respect it deserves. Sara regularly acts on behalf of intended parents, surrogate mothers, egg donors, sperm donors, embryo donors, and other people involved with reproductive technologies. She is also an adjunct professor of law at Osgoode Hall Law School where she teaches reproductive law. Sara is an advocate for all parties involved in third party reproductive technology- loves what she does and it shows!

In today’s show, we talk about Fertility Law and the legal implications of assisted reproductive technologies.

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• At what point is it necessary to seek legal support?
• How does the law restrict the use of frozen embryos if a couple separates after the embryos were made?
• What are the laws around surrogacy?
• What is the difference between traditional surrogacy and gestational surrogacy?
• What are the laws regarding egg, embryo, and sperm donation?
• Preventing consanguinity (too many offspring from the same donor)
• Canadian law around sperm donation (and why it has led to a sperm shortage in Canada)
• Regulations about egg, sperm, and embryo donation around the world
• Open versus anonymous donation

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Music Credit: Intro/Outro music Produced by J-Gantic

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