There’s nothing like an early evening chat about death to keep you up all night. Last night in the Zen group that I regularly sit with we talked about death or as Zen folk like to call it, “The Great Matter”. Leading the chat was our Zen priest—a man in his 50’s. He kicked off [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Reproductive technology'
Scary times for Canadian fertility
April 20th, 2010 · Comments Off
If you are thinking about getting fertility treatments in Canada, it is important to know that Assisted Human Reproduction Canada, the federal agency charged with the goal of policing the industry may have it’s eye on your pocketbook instead of your safety.
The agency, with an annual budget of about $12-million, has been criticized repeatedly for [...]
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Womanly Sperm
June 5th, 2009 · Comments Off
Check out this trailer to “The Baby Formula.” I found the subject fascinating and very funny! I can’t wait to see this one.
The film is about two women in love who go through an experimental stem cell process. They make sperm out of one of the woman’s stem cells and mix it with the other [...]
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Motivation for intelligent marketing?
June 1st, 2009 · 1 Comment
Sarah Haskins, the host of the video below, makes a great point when she talks about birth control being marketed as period control. Who knew it could work as a contraceptive?
My “simple lady mind” is in tune with Sarah. I hope to get a period control e-card the next time one of my friends is [...]
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Can I put my eggs in your basket? Part 2, By Smita
April 6th, 2009 · 2 Comments
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As I wrote in a previous blog, I’ve been asked by a friend if I would donate my eggs. I’m considering it so I started researching the procedure but now I’ve found myself lost in a sea of questions. Am I too old to even donate an egg? According to some clinics I [...]
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Can I put my eggs in your basket? By Smita
March 11th, 2009 · 4 Comments
I’m not that close to my neighbours but if they came to my door and asked to borrow a cup of sugar, I wouldn’t deny them. Recently though, a friend of mine asked me for something a bit more personal. For the purpose of this blog I’ll call my friend “Suzy.”
After years of trying to [...]
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Mothering in the news- By Dominique
February 15th, 2009 · 2 Comments
The National Post and the Calgary Herald have been covering the Cliff lately
check out this week’s articles. I can’t believe a 60 year old Calgary woman just had a baby, wow that gives me almost 30 years to get my act together!
The impotency of Canada’s fertility laws.
http://www.calgaryherald.com/Health/Waiting+have+baby/1292019/story.html
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