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Introduction
Regulatory Pasts and Futures
From: Surrogacy in Canada
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This introduction outlines the complex issues involved in regulating surrogacy in Canada. The authors introduce a range of critical perspectives on the governance of surrogacy in Canada, with a focus on public policy and law.
Contributors
Vanessa Gruben
Vanessa Gruben is an associate professor and a member of the Centre for Health Law, Policy and Ethics at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Common Law, where she teaches health law and family law. Her research focuses on the legal and ethical aspects of assisted reproduction, including the constitutionality of Canada’s Assisted Human Reproduction Act, the legal relationship between egg donors and their physicians, the constitutionality of anonymous sperm and egg donation, access to reproductive technologies, and the existing gaps in provincial law for families created through third-party reproduction. Gruben’s work is funded by the Social Science and Humanities and Research Council, Canadian Blood Services, and the Foundation for Legal Research. She is a co-editor of the fifth edition of Canadian Health Law and Policy (LexisNexis Canada, 2017).
Alana Cattapan
Alana Cattapan is an assistant professor at the Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy and an associate member of the Department of Community Health and Epidemiology in the College of Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan. A longtime feminist researcher and activist, she studies women’s participation in policy making — identifying links between the state, the commercialization of the body, biotechnologies, and reproductive labour. Cattapan’s work is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, and the Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation. Her research is interdisciplinary and has been published in journals across a range of fields, including Studies in Political Economy, the Journal of Medical Ethics, the Canadian Medical Association Journal, and the Canadian Journal of Law and Society.
Angela Cameron
Angela Cameron is an associate professor at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law. She holds the Shirley E Greenberg Chair for Women and the Legal Profession. Her research is generally in the area of social justice, with particular attention to the equality rights and interests of women. Her research and publications are mainly in the areas of assisted reproductive technologies, violence against women, and Indigenous-settler relations. She is the chair of FAFIA (http://fafia-afai.org), a national feminist NGO, and has worked on a variety of law reform and activism projects within the feminist and LGBTQ+ communities.
