Posted: May 04, 2021 6:00 AM AT | Last Updated: May 4
Amelia Edwards and Lyle MacDougall have desperately been trying to access the sperm sample they have saved at Conceptia Fertility Clinic in Moncton, N.B. It s their only chance to conceive because of MacDougall s fight with testicular cancer. (Submitted by Amelia Edwards)
Lyle MacDougall and Amelia Edwards were just friends when he was diagnosed with testicular cancer four years ago.
At the time, Edwards says, they didn t realize the significance of the advice provided by MacDougall s mother that he should go to Conceptia Fertility Clinic in Moncton, N.B. His mother had the great foresight to insist that he preserve some sperm in the event the worst-case scenario happened, Edwards says.
Posted: Jan 18, 2021 6:00 AM AT | Last Updated: January 18
A lawsuit filed by the Canadian Civil Liberties Association seeks to change New Brunswick law so that surgical abortions at Clinic 554 in Fredericton can be funded by medicare. (Mike Heenan/CBC)
A group suing the New Brunswick government in an effort to get it to fund abortions in private clinics is pointing to a similar restriction in Prince Edward Island, calling P.E.I. s law discriminatory and one that has no place on the books.
The Canadian Civil Liberties Association filed its constitutional challenge earlier this month in Court of Queen s Bench in Fredericton.