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Should Canada Implement a Flat-Rate Reimbursement Model for Surrogacy Arrangements?
Legal and Ethical Recommendations for a Revised Approach to Reimbursement
From: Surrogacy in Canada
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There are important questions about whether the current reimbursement model established under section 12 of the AHRA is the most effective to ensure that women who act as surrogates are appropriately reimbursed. In Chapter 5, Angel Petropanagos, Vanessa Gruben, and Angela Cameron propose an alternative reimbursement model that is intended to address a number of practical, ethical, and legal concerns about the receipted-expense model established under section 12.
Contributors
Angel Petropanagos
Angel Petropanagos is the quality improvement ethicist at William Osler Health System (Brampton, Ontario). She is also the co-managing editor of the Impact Ethics website (www.impactethics.ca), the co-chair for the Canadian Fertility & Andrology Society’s Ethics and Law special interest group, and a board member of the Canadian Bioethics Society. Her primary research explores ethical issues related to fertility preservation and assisted reproduction. She regularly contributes to the review and development of policy and guideline documents, and provides freelance ethics consultation support to fertility clinics.
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).
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.
