Bill C-13 The Assisted Human Reproduction Act: examining the arguments against a regulatory approach.

In large part, Bill C-13, The Assisted Human Reproduction Act, provides a framework for a reasonable regulatory scheme. It creates the Assisted Human Reproduction Agency of Canada and gives it a broad mandate to “protect and promote the health and safety, and the human dignity and human rights, of Canadians, and to foster the application of ethical principles” in relation to reproductive technologies and to issue licences for a variety of “contro lled activities.” As I have argued elsewhere, the adoption of this flexible scheme is an entirely sensible way to regulate reproductive genetics.