A place for criminal law in the regulation of reproductive technologies.

On May 9, 2002, Canadian Health Minister Anne McLellan introduced Bill C-56, An Act Respecting Assisted Human Reproduction (the “AHR Act”), in the House of Commons. The Bill was then re-introduced in the House on October 9, 2002 as Bill C-13. This proposed legislation strives to deal with the moral and ethical concerns that surround research and science associated with reproductive technologies. At the same time, the AHR Act strives to balance these concerns with the objective of promoting scientific and medical inquiry, which ultimately could lead to finding treatments for many of the illnesses that continue to plague humanity.