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Having Children with Assisted Reproduction

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Assisted reproduction relies on the help of other people to conceive a child. It is necessary when:

#*a person wants to have a child without someone else also being a parent of that child;,#*the people involved in an opposite-sex relationship are infertile or a woman can't carry a baby to term;,#*the people involved in a same-sex relationship want to have a child, and they want the child to share the genetic heritage of at least one of them; , or,#*a couple wish to include one or more other people as the parents of their child.

Whatever the circumstances might be, having a child through assisted reproduction often involves one or more of:

#*the use of donated eggs;,#*the use of donated sperm; , and,#*the cooperation of a woman who will carry the baby to term as a surrogate mother.

The federal ''[http://canlii.ca/t/7vzj Assisted Human Reproduction Act]'' regulates the scientific and commercial aspects of assisted reproduction. From a family law perspective, the important parts of this act make it illegal to sell eggs or sperm, and say that a surrogate mother can't be given money for her services apart from compensation for her expenses.

The provincial ''[[Family Law Act]]'' lets people who are having a child by assisted reproduction decide who will and won't be a legal parent of their child, by making an agreement in writing before the child is conceived. (This part of the act is awesome because it lets people decide who the parents of a child will be, for ''all'' purposes of the law of British Columbia, without having to go to court to get an order saying who the parents of a child are.) Under the ''Family Law Act'', a child can have up to six legal parents if everyone agrees:

#*up to two people who intend to have the child;,#*a donor of eggs;,#*a donor of sperm;,#*a surrogate mother; , and,#*the spouse of a surrogate mother.

==Assisted reproduction processes==

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