Family Planning
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Why are people having fewer children? ‘Financial limitations’ a top barrierA new report is shedding light on why birth rates are falling around the world and suggests it's not from people choosing to have fewer children.WorldJun 11, 2025
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This New Brunswick couple wants to have a baby. IVF costs make that challengingOne New Brunswick couple is grappling with thousands of dollars in debt from an IVF treatment that was unsuccessful. But new provincial funding is giving them hope.CanadaMar 26, 2025
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Rule change makes it easier for women undergoing fertility treatment to access sperm from known donorsAs of Feb. 4, a change to Health Canada regulations will make using sperm donation from a friend or acquaintance for fertility treatment easier and cheaper.LifestyleFeb 11, 2020
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Aid proponents worry low profile of multi-billion-dollar federal program could expose it to cutsGlobal News has obtained internal government documents that show just "one per cent" of Canadians can say anything about the Feminist International Assistance Policy, a centrepiece of the Trudeau government's aid program.PoliticsDec 9, 2019
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The stigma of more children after one is sick: Why some parents feel guilty"It's important to get to the bottom of that issue so the parent doesn't feel like the cause of that issue," said one doctor.LifestyleAug 10, 2019
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Canadian fertility clinic reports 180% increase in elective egg freezingStarting a family later in life comes with the risk of increased infertility, which is one reason there's been a huge spike in the number of women freezing their eggs.FeaturesJan 30, 2019
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Rally opposes discontinuation of uninsured fertility services at Edmonton hospitalA rally Thursday at the Alberta legislature will protest an Alberta Health Services decision to cancel non-insured fertility services like IVF and IUI at the Lois Hole Hospital for Women in Edmonton.HealthNov 30, 2017
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Alberta doctor says AHS cancelling fertility services is a ‘tragedy of all tragedies’Dr. Tarek Motan, an Edmonton reproductive endocrinologist, said the cancellation of in vitro and insemination services at northern Alberta's only public clinic shows the province does not understand how desperate Albertans are to have children.HealthNov 6, 2017
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Nearly half of abortions in the world are unsafe: WHOWorldwide, 25 million unsafe abortions occurred every year between 2010 and 2014, according to a report by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Guttmacher Institute. Some 97 percent of those are in Africa, Asia and Latin America.HealthSep 27, 2017
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Melinda Gates denounces Trump ‘gag order’ on abortion in personal essay about birth control"My family, my career, my life as I know it are all the direct result of contraceptives. And now, I realize how lucky that makes me," said Gates.LifestyleFeb 15, 2017
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