Fertility Law Canada™ at D2Law LLP in the Media
June 13, 2021 - Sara R. Cohen is interviewed by Kim Smith on Global News about one Alberta family's disappointing experience when a hospital invalidated their experience as intended parents when there baby, conceived through surrogacy, was born in a hospital, and the parents were made to wait for hours to meet the baby while the surrogate was treated like the mother. Sara says that the hospital's behaviour invalidated the parents experience. Read the article and watch the video here.
April 21, 2021 - Sara R. Cohen is interviewed by Fertility Matters Canada about the modern family, where she discusses surrogacy, egg donation and sperm donation in Canada. Watch here.
June 17, 2020 - Sara R. Cohen is interviewed by Ellen Trachman about the new regulations regarding reimbursing a surrogate or a donor in Canada. Read the article here.
March 23, 2020 - Sara R. Cohen is quoted by CBC as it investigates surrogacy in Canada and the lack of oversight. Read the article here.
December 18, 2016 - Sara R. Cohen is quoted in The Toronto Star about single fathers through surrogacy in Canada. Read the article here.
April 9, 2018 - Sara R. Cohen and MP Anthony Housefather publish an op-ed in the National Post about how Canada's fertility laws can criminalize family building and need to be overhauled. Read it here.
December 9, 2016 - Sara R. Cohen speaks about the strange case of Nick Loeb and Sofia Vergara where Vergara is being sued by the embryos for a right to life. Read the article here.
December 7, 2016 - Sara R. Cohen is quoted in Above the Law about the All Families are Equal Act as relates to gamete donors, non-heteronormative parentage constuctions and surrogacy. Read the article here.
September 9, 2016 - Sara R. Cohen spoke about surrogacy in Canada and the law on CTV's Your Morning show. Watch the clip here.
August 2016 - incidence of IVF embryo mix up cases very rare in Canada. Read what Sara R. Cohen had to say on the topic here.
July 2016 - Sara R. Cohen is speaking at the National Family Law Program in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador about comprehensive ART provincial legislation and the challenges of donor registries. Here is what Advocate Daily wrote about the presentation and paper.
June 2016 - Kathleen Wynne announces it will change legal parentage in Ontario. What does that mean? Here is what Sara R.Cohen had to say to Advocate Daily about this.
May 2016 - On May 5, 2016 Sara R. Cohen is speaking at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Assisted Reproductive Technology Attorneys (AAARTA), and on May 13, 2016, Sara will be speaking at the American Bar Association's Family Law Section conference. Read about both presentations here.
April 8, 2016 - Sara R. Cohen speaks in Vancouver at CLE BC's "Baby Making: Fertility Law and Assisted Reproductive Technologies" Course. More information is available here.
March 16, 2016 - Sara R. Cohen is the first guest on The Huddle where she speaks about her journey to become a fertility lawyer and her fulfilling experience in this career. Listen here.
March 7, 2016 - Sara R. Cohen is interviewed by The Globe and Mail about her career as a fertility lawyer. Read the article here.
March 7, 2016 - Sara R. Cohen is quoted in The Huffington Post about how little donor sperm is available in Canada. Read the article here.
February 25, 2016 - Sara R. Cohen is delighted to be invited to speak about fertility law at a LGBT family building and estate planning event. Read more about the event here.
February 6, 2016 - Sara R. Cohen spoke at McGill University on behalf of the McGill Journal of Law and Health about the harm caused by prohibiting commercialization of surrogacy and gamete donation in Canada. You can read more about the presentation here, and read an article by Advocate Daily about it here.
January 22, 2016 - Sara R. Cohen was interviewed by Lawyers Weekly about the benefits and drawbacks of owning your own law firm when you are a parent. Read the article here.
November 23, 2015 - Sara R. Cohen is quoted by Alison Motluk in the Canadian Medical Association Journal about the proposed guidelines setting out what is a reimbursable expense for a surrogate or a donor under section 12 of the Assisted Human Reproduction Act. Read the article here.
October 23, 2005 - Sara R. Cohen is interviewed by The Lawyer Weekly about how she uses technology in her fertility law legal practice to communicate with clients around the world. Read the article here.
October 17, 2015 - Sara R. Cohen is honoured to be invited to speak along with Dr. Karen Glass at Camp Oochigeas on behalf of the Pediatric Oncology Group of Ontario at the Life After Childhood Cancer conference to discuss third party reproduction and the law. Read more here.
October 5, 2015 - Sara R. Cohen co-presented with Deputy Director Peggy Swain at the American Academy of Assisted Reproductive Technology Attorneys (AAARTA) Conference, about the drafting of surrogacy contracts.
September 25, 2015 - Sara R. Cohen was quoted in the Lawyers Weekly about social media and the practice of law in her surrogacy law practice. Read the article here.
September 2, 2015 - Sara R. Cohen is quoted about international intended parents coming to Canada for surrogacy. Read the article here.
August 2015 - Sara R. Cohen is recognized as one of the Top 25 Most Influential Lawyers in Canada. Read the article here.
June 17, 2015 - Sara R. Cohen speaks to the Ontario Ministry of Attorney General crown counsel about fertility law in Ontario, across Canada and the need for legislative change, as part of the Cradle to the Grave Series at Ontario Crown Summer School. Brief article about the talk is here.
June 11, 2015 - Sara R. Cohen was invited to speak at Fasken Martineau Pride Network's event, The Modern LGBT Family: Parenthood, the Workplace and LGBT Estate Planning, where she discussed Current Issues in LGBT Family Establishment. Read about the event here.
May 3, 2015 - Sara R. Cohen appeared on Focus Ontario, where she discussed why Ontario needs to change its legislation regarding legal parentage of children born through the use of donor sperm, eggs and embryos. You can watch the clip here (tune in around 15:30). You can read more about the story here.
May 1, 2015 - Sara R. Cohen appeared on etalk on CTV, discussing the frozen embryo dispute between Sofia Vergara and Nick Loeb. You can watch the clip here.
April 9, 2015 - Sara R. Cohen is quoted by CTVNews about sperm donation and screening in Canada, after Canadian women sue U.S. sperm bank for allegedly failing to verify sperm donor information. Read the article here.
April 7, 2015 - Sara R. Cohen is quoted in the Toronto Star, discussing how sperm donor shortages in Canada force Canadians to seek sperm from abroad. Read the article here.
March 1, 2015 - Sara R. Cohen was interviewed by the CBC to discuss why we aren't discussing three parent IVF babies (or, preferably, 3 person IVF babies) in Canada. Read the article here.
February 16, 2015 - Sara R. Cohen was interviewed by Jim Richards on Talk1010 about the need to change surrogacy law in Canada. You can listen in here.
February 15, 2015 - Sara R. Cohen's article about the motives of surrogate mothers in Canada appeared in The Globe and Mail here.
February 15, 2015 - The Globe and Mail did a great series discussing fertility in Canada. Carly Weeks wrote a powerful article, urging the government to reignite a discussion about fertility laws in Canada. Sara R. Cohen was quoted in the article here.
February 10, 2015 - Sara R. Cohen and Karen Busby were interviewed by The Globe and Mail as experts about fertility law in Canada. You can read the article here.
January 28, 2015 - Sara R. Cohen was interviewed on CBC Vancouver about Canadians going abroad for surrogacy and surrogacy law in Canada, after Canadians Elaine and George Smith's babies born through surrogacy in Mexico were trapped in Mexico. Listen in here at around twenty-two minutes.
November 10, 2014 - When Does a Sperm Donor have Parental Rights? Sara R. Cohen, special to The Globe and Mail, analyzes the implications of the Jason Patric legal parentage dispute here.
November 4, 2014 - Sara was interviewed on the Simi Sara show about the Jason Patric decision and legal parentage of a sperm donor. Listen to the interview here.
October 23, 2014 - Sara R. Cohen spoke at the Ontario Bar Association's TECHxpo conference about social media for your law practice. Read more about the presentation here.
August 2014 - Sara R. Cohen will be making two presentations at the 60th annual meeting of the Canadian Fertility and Andrology Society about fertility law in Canada. The first is called Third Party Reproduction - Let's Fill in the Blanks, and the second is Ten Years of the Assisted Human Reproduction Act: Where are we Today? Read about the presentations here.
August 10, 2014 - Sara R. Cohen is interviewed on CKNW Weekend Morning News with Jill Bennett about the Baby Gammy story and surrogacy laws in Canada. Listen to the radio show here.
August 2014 - Sara R. Cohen is now the Legal Co-Chair of the Ethics and Law Special Interest Group of the Canadian Fertility and Andrology Society. Read here what Advocate Daily had to say.
August 6, 2014 - Sara R. Cohen is quoted in The National Post article, Surrogacy Isn't Always a Horror Story: How One Canadian Couple Took the Birth of a Down Syndrome Child in Stride, in which Sara discusses how intended parents and surrogates ought to discuss issues such as abortion prior to entering into a surrogacy contract. Read the article here.
August 5, 2014 - Sara R. Cohen is interviewed by Global TV about the Baby Gammy story. Although it could happen in Canada, or anywhere else, intended parents abandoning their baby is thankfully not a widespread phenomenon. Read the story here.
August 4, 2014 - Sara R. Cohen is quoted in The National Post about the Baby Gammy story. Although it could happen that a Canadian intended parent could choose to abandon a child born via surrogacy abroad, Sara thinks it is less likely to happen than with Australian intended parents, as Canadians have a better surrogacy culture at home. Read the article here.
July 28, 2014 - Sara R. Cohen is quoted in The Globe and Mail about a Calgary fertility clinic refusing to allow a woman to use donor sperm from a different race. Sara believes this practice is unethical, and that "it is inappropriate for a clinic to make greater social policy for a province." Read the article here, and what Advocate Daily had to say here.
July 11, 2014 - Sara R. Cohen was quoted in the Lawyers Weekly discussing branding a law firm. She discusses choosing the tagline "Helping to Build Families" for Fertility Law Canada, to get across the cooperative and collaborative approach she takes to the practice of surrogacy law. Read the article here, and what Advocate Daily had to say here.
June 16, 2014 - Sara R. Cohen was interviewed in the Law Times about the disappointing Kandola decision, whereby a child born via egg donation and sperm donation outside of Canada to a father who is a Canadian citizen was held not to be entitled to Canadian citizenship. See the article below, and read what Advocate Daily had to say here.
April 21, 2021 - Sara R. Cohen is interviewed by Fertility Matters Canada about the modern family, where she discusses surrogacy, egg donation and sperm donation in Canada. Watch here.
June 17, 2020 - Sara R. Cohen is interviewed by Ellen Trachman about the new regulations regarding reimbursing a surrogate or a donor in Canada. Read the article here.
March 23, 2020 - Sara R. Cohen is quoted by CBC as it investigates surrogacy in Canada and the lack of oversight. Read the article here.
December 18, 2016 - Sara R. Cohen is quoted in The Toronto Star about single fathers through surrogacy in Canada. Read the article here.
April 9, 2018 - Sara R. Cohen and MP Anthony Housefather publish an op-ed in the National Post about how Canada's fertility laws can criminalize family building and need to be overhauled. Read it here.
December 9, 2016 - Sara R. Cohen speaks about the strange case of Nick Loeb and Sofia Vergara where Vergara is being sued by the embryos for a right to life. Read the article here.
December 7, 2016 - Sara R. Cohen is quoted in Above the Law about the All Families are Equal Act as relates to gamete donors, non-heteronormative parentage constuctions and surrogacy. Read the article here.
September 9, 2016 - Sara R. Cohen spoke about surrogacy in Canada and the law on CTV's Your Morning show. Watch the clip here.
August 2016 - incidence of IVF embryo mix up cases very rare in Canada. Read what Sara R. Cohen had to say on the topic here.
July 2016 - Sara R. Cohen is speaking at the National Family Law Program in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador about comprehensive ART provincial legislation and the challenges of donor registries. Here is what Advocate Daily wrote about the presentation and paper.
June 2016 - Kathleen Wynne announces it will change legal parentage in Ontario. What does that mean? Here is what Sara R.Cohen had to say to Advocate Daily about this.
May 2016 - On May 5, 2016 Sara R. Cohen is speaking at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Assisted Reproductive Technology Attorneys (AAARTA), and on May 13, 2016, Sara will be speaking at the American Bar Association's Family Law Section conference. Read about both presentations here.
April 8, 2016 - Sara R. Cohen speaks in Vancouver at CLE BC's "Baby Making: Fertility Law and Assisted Reproductive Technologies" Course. More information is available here.
March 16, 2016 - Sara R. Cohen is the first guest on The Huddle where she speaks about her journey to become a fertility lawyer and her fulfilling experience in this career. Listen here.
March 7, 2016 - Sara R. Cohen is interviewed by The Globe and Mail about her career as a fertility lawyer. Read the article here.
March 7, 2016 - Sara R. Cohen is quoted in The Huffington Post about how little donor sperm is available in Canada. Read the article here.
February 25, 2016 - Sara R. Cohen is delighted to be invited to speak about fertility law at a LGBT family building and estate planning event. Read more about the event here.
February 6, 2016 - Sara R. Cohen spoke at McGill University on behalf of the McGill Journal of Law and Health about the harm caused by prohibiting commercialization of surrogacy and gamete donation in Canada. You can read more about the presentation here, and read an article by Advocate Daily about it here.
January 22, 2016 - Sara R. Cohen was interviewed by Lawyers Weekly about the benefits and drawbacks of owning your own law firm when you are a parent. Read the article here.
November 23, 2015 - Sara R. Cohen is quoted by Alison Motluk in the Canadian Medical Association Journal about the proposed guidelines setting out what is a reimbursable expense for a surrogate or a donor under section 12 of the Assisted Human Reproduction Act. Read the article here.
October 23, 2005 - Sara R. Cohen is interviewed by The Lawyer Weekly about how she uses technology in her fertility law legal practice to communicate with clients around the world. Read the article here.
October 17, 2015 - Sara R. Cohen is honoured to be invited to speak along with Dr. Karen Glass at Camp Oochigeas on behalf of the Pediatric Oncology Group of Ontario at the Life After Childhood Cancer conference to discuss third party reproduction and the law. Read more here.
October 5, 2015 - Sara R. Cohen co-presented with Deputy Director Peggy Swain at the American Academy of Assisted Reproductive Technology Attorneys (AAARTA) Conference, about the drafting of surrogacy contracts.
September 25, 2015 - Sara R. Cohen was quoted in the Lawyers Weekly about social media and the practice of law in her surrogacy law practice. Read the article here.
September 2, 2015 - Sara R. Cohen is quoted about international intended parents coming to Canada for surrogacy. Read the article here.
August 2015 - Sara R. Cohen is recognized as one of the Top 25 Most Influential Lawyers in Canada. Read the article here.
June 17, 2015 - Sara R. Cohen speaks to the Ontario Ministry of Attorney General crown counsel about fertility law in Ontario, across Canada and the need for legislative change, as part of the Cradle to the Grave Series at Ontario Crown Summer School. Brief article about the talk is here.
June 11, 2015 - Sara R. Cohen was invited to speak at Fasken Martineau Pride Network's event, The Modern LGBT Family: Parenthood, the Workplace and LGBT Estate Planning, where she discussed Current Issues in LGBT Family Establishment. Read about the event here.
May 3, 2015 - Sara R. Cohen appeared on Focus Ontario, where she discussed why Ontario needs to change its legislation regarding legal parentage of children born through the use of donor sperm, eggs and embryos. You can watch the clip here (tune in around 15:30). You can read more about the story here.
May 1, 2015 - Sara R. Cohen appeared on etalk on CTV, discussing the frozen embryo dispute between Sofia Vergara and Nick Loeb. You can watch the clip here.
April 9, 2015 - Sara R. Cohen is quoted by CTVNews about sperm donation and screening in Canada, after Canadian women sue U.S. sperm bank for allegedly failing to verify sperm donor information. Read the article here.
April 7, 2015 - Sara R. Cohen is quoted in the Toronto Star, discussing how sperm donor shortages in Canada force Canadians to seek sperm from abroad. Read the article here.
March 1, 2015 - Sara R. Cohen was interviewed by the CBC to discuss why we aren't discussing three parent IVF babies (or, preferably, 3 person IVF babies) in Canada. Read the article here.
February 16, 2015 - Sara R. Cohen was interviewed by Jim Richards on Talk1010 about the need to change surrogacy law in Canada. You can listen in here.
February 15, 2015 - Sara R. Cohen's article about the motives of surrogate mothers in Canada appeared in The Globe and Mail here.
February 15, 2015 - The Globe and Mail did a great series discussing fertility in Canada. Carly Weeks wrote a powerful article, urging the government to reignite a discussion about fertility laws in Canada. Sara R. Cohen was quoted in the article here.
February 10, 2015 - Sara R. Cohen and Karen Busby were interviewed by The Globe and Mail as experts about fertility law in Canada. You can read the article here.
January 28, 2015 - Sara R. Cohen was interviewed on CBC Vancouver about Canadians going abroad for surrogacy and surrogacy law in Canada, after Canadians Elaine and George Smith's babies born through surrogacy in Mexico were trapped in Mexico. Listen in here at around twenty-two minutes.
November 10, 2014 - When Does a Sperm Donor have Parental Rights? Sara R. Cohen, special to The Globe and Mail, analyzes the implications of the Jason Patric legal parentage dispute here.
November 4, 2014 - Sara was interviewed on the Simi Sara show about the Jason Patric decision and legal parentage of a sperm donor. Listen to the interview here.
October 23, 2014 - Sara R. Cohen spoke at the Ontario Bar Association's TECHxpo conference about social media for your law practice. Read more about the presentation here.
August 2014 - Sara R. Cohen will be making two presentations at the 60th annual meeting of the Canadian Fertility and Andrology Society about fertility law in Canada. The first is called Third Party Reproduction - Let's Fill in the Blanks, and the second is Ten Years of the Assisted Human Reproduction Act: Where are we Today? Read about the presentations here.
August 10, 2014 - Sara R. Cohen is interviewed on CKNW Weekend Morning News with Jill Bennett about the Baby Gammy story and surrogacy laws in Canada. Listen to the radio show here.
August 2014 - Sara R. Cohen is now the Legal Co-Chair of the Ethics and Law Special Interest Group of the Canadian Fertility and Andrology Society. Read here what Advocate Daily had to say.
August 6, 2014 - Sara R. Cohen is quoted in The National Post article, Surrogacy Isn't Always a Horror Story: How One Canadian Couple Took the Birth of a Down Syndrome Child in Stride, in which Sara discusses how intended parents and surrogates ought to discuss issues such as abortion prior to entering into a surrogacy contract. Read the article here.
August 5, 2014 - Sara R. Cohen is interviewed by Global TV about the Baby Gammy story. Although it could happen in Canada, or anywhere else, intended parents abandoning their baby is thankfully not a widespread phenomenon. Read the story here.
August 4, 2014 - Sara R. Cohen is quoted in The National Post about the Baby Gammy story. Although it could happen that a Canadian intended parent could choose to abandon a child born via surrogacy abroad, Sara thinks it is less likely to happen than with Australian intended parents, as Canadians have a better surrogacy culture at home. Read the article here.
July 28, 2014 - Sara R. Cohen is quoted in The Globe and Mail about a Calgary fertility clinic refusing to allow a woman to use donor sperm from a different race. Sara believes this practice is unethical, and that "it is inappropriate for a clinic to make greater social policy for a province." Read the article here, and what Advocate Daily had to say here.
July 11, 2014 - Sara R. Cohen was quoted in the Lawyers Weekly discussing branding a law firm. She discusses choosing the tagline "Helping to Build Families" for Fertility Law Canada, to get across the cooperative and collaborative approach she takes to the practice of surrogacy law. Read the article here, and what Advocate Daily had to say here.
June 16, 2014 - Sara R. Cohen was interviewed in the Law Times about the disappointing Kandola decision, whereby a child born via egg donation and sperm donation outside of Canada to a father who is a Canadian citizen was held not to be entitled to Canadian citizenship. See the article below, and read what Advocate Daily had to say here.
May 15, 2014 - Sara R. Cohen was interviewed on the Simi Sara show about the Jason Patric decision from the California Court of Appeal. This is a very important decision asking relevant and live questions about whether a sperm donor is a father, if ever, and how to protect yourself when you use a known sperm donor. You can listen to the interview here (listen in at about min 19). Read more about it on Advocate Daily here.
April 10, 2014 - The government of Ontario announced today that it will increase access to funded fertility treatments across the province. Read what Sara R. Cohen had to say about this here and here.
March 2014 - Sara R. Cohen was interviewed in the Canadian Bar Association's The National magazine about finding your niche practice. My advice: "“Find something you love and are passionate about and give it absolutely everything you’ve got. If you’re really passionate about something and you do excellent work, the clients follow.” Read the article here.
March 2014 - Sara R. Cohen will be speaking at the Families Through Surrogacy's UK Conference, where she will be discussing fertility law in Canada. Read more about the conference here.
February 19, 2014 - Sara R. Cohen, a Health Advisor for The Globe and Mail, writes about what to do with leftover embryos after IVF, including embryo donation, in "The IVF question: What to do with leftover embryos?"
February 2014 - Sara R. Cohen will co-chair a full day symposium about fertility law issues, entitled Current and Emerging Issues in Fertility Law. This is the first such day long fertility law symposium of its type in Canada. Justice Czutrin will be the keynote speaker. Read more about the program here and download the brochure here.
December 2, 2013 - Sara R. Cohen was a guest on Kevin Newman Live on CTV, discussing the use of donor sperm in Canada and the shortage of availability. Watch the video here.
Fall 2013 - Elle Canada writer Sarah Treleaven asks about The Price of Canada - How Much Are You Willing to Pay to have a Baby? Sara R. Cohen is quoted with respect to the cost of IVF and the cost of surrogacy. Read the article here.
October 2013 - Natalie Stechyson wrote some great pieces about LGBTQ family building in Canada. Sara R. Cohen is proud to be quoted extensively in this article about legal parentage in Canada for LGBT families and the necessity of egg donor and sperm donor contracts in light of the lack of legal clarity. Read the article here.
September 22, 2013 - in the same series by Natalie Stechyson referred to above about children conceived through assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs), Sara R. Cohen is quoted about how the Omnibus Budget Bill (Bill C-38) provided the opportunity to revise the Semen Regulations to better include the needs of LGBTQ people. Read the article here.
July 2013 - Sara R. Cohen and Alana Cattapan's article, The Devil We Know: the Implications of Bill C-38 for Assisted Human Reproduction in Canada is published in the July issue of the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada. Read the abstract here.
June 2013 - Sara R. Cohen is honoured to be selected as one of the recipients of the 2013 Precedent Setter Awards. The Precedent Setter Award recognizes "the most outstanding lawyers in their first 10 years of practice who are excelling in their careers and contributing to their communities." Read Sara Cohen's story here.
May 2013 - YorkU's Alumni magazine featured stories of three Osgoode Hall Law School alumnis who have built niche legal practices, including Sara R. Cohen and her Fertility Law Canada practice. Sara discusses the benefits of a niche law practice in the article, Finding Their Niche.
April 10, 2014 - The government of Ontario announced today that it will increase access to funded fertility treatments across the province. Read what Sara R. Cohen had to say about this here and here.
March 2014 - Sara R. Cohen was interviewed in the Canadian Bar Association's The National magazine about finding your niche practice. My advice: "“Find something you love and are passionate about and give it absolutely everything you’ve got. If you’re really passionate about something and you do excellent work, the clients follow.” Read the article here.
March 2014 - Sara R. Cohen will be speaking at the Families Through Surrogacy's UK Conference, where she will be discussing fertility law in Canada. Read more about the conference here.
February 19, 2014 - Sara R. Cohen, a Health Advisor for The Globe and Mail, writes about what to do with leftover embryos after IVF, including embryo donation, in "The IVF question: What to do with leftover embryos?"
February 2014 - Sara R. Cohen will co-chair a full day symposium about fertility law issues, entitled Current and Emerging Issues in Fertility Law. This is the first such day long fertility law symposium of its type in Canada. Justice Czutrin will be the keynote speaker. Read more about the program here and download the brochure here.
December 2, 2013 - Sara R. Cohen was a guest on Kevin Newman Live on CTV, discussing the use of donor sperm in Canada and the shortage of availability. Watch the video here.
Fall 2013 - Elle Canada writer Sarah Treleaven asks about The Price of Canada - How Much Are You Willing to Pay to have a Baby? Sara R. Cohen is quoted with respect to the cost of IVF and the cost of surrogacy. Read the article here.
October 2013 - Natalie Stechyson wrote some great pieces about LGBTQ family building in Canada. Sara R. Cohen is proud to be quoted extensively in this article about legal parentage in Canada for LGBT families and the necessity of egg donor and sperm donor contracts in light of the lack of legal clarity. Read the article here.
September 22, 2013 - in the same series by Natalie Stechyson referred to above about children conceived through assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs), Sara R. Cohen is quoted about how the Omnibus Budget Bill (Bill C-38) provided the opportunity to revise the Semen Regulations to better include the needs of LGBTQ people. Read the article here.
July 2013 - Sara R. Cohen and Alana Cattapan's article, The Devil We Know: the Implications of Bill C-38 for Assisted Human Reproduction in Canada is published in the July issue of the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada. Read the abstract here.
June 2013 - Sara R. Cohen is honoured to be selected as one of the recipients of the 2013 Precedent Setter Awards. The Precedent Setter Award recognizes "the most outstanding lawyers in their first 10 years of practice who are excelling in their careers and contributing to their communities." Read Sara Cohen's story here.
May 2013 - YorkU's Alumni magazine featured stories of three Osgoode Hall Law School alumnis who have built niche legal practices, including Sara R. Cohen and her Fertility Law Canada practice. Sara discusses the benefits of a niche law practice in the article, Finding Their Niche.
May 2013 - an Ontario case where a sperm donor sought access and custody to a child born through the use of his sperm settled, leaving sperm donors, parents and children with questions about the legal rights of sperm donors. Read what Sara R. Cohen had to say about this in the article, Case Highlights need for Sperm Donor Clarification.
May 7, 2013 - a case where Manitoba parents via gestational surrogacy are struggling to be recognized as the legal parents of their biological children brought the lack of relevant legislation to the public eye. Sara R. Cohen discusses the need for legal reform when it comes to recognizing legal parentage through surrogacy in Canada. See Sara on CBC's The National and read the National Post article here. A summary of the comments is provided by Advocate Daily in its article, Biological Parents Face Legal Challenge.
April 3, 2013 - Sara R. Cohen debates with Francoise Baylis in the Huffington Post's Change My Mind: Should There Be an Age Limit For Fertility Treatments? Read the arguments for and against here.
March 26, 2013 - Sara R. Cohen is featured as one of Toronto's world-class mompreneurs in ilovetoronto.com's blog. Read the story here.
May 7, 2013 - a case where Manitoba parents via gestational surrogacy are struggling to be recognized as the legal parents of their biological children brought the lack of relevant legislation to the public eye. Sara R. Cohen discusses the need for legal reform when it comes to recognizing legal parentage through surrogacy in Canada. See Sara on CBC's The National and read the National Post article here. A summary of the comments is provided by Advocate Daily in its article, Biological Parents Face Legal Challenge.
April 3, 2013 - Sara R. Cohen debates with Francoise Baylis in the Huffington Post's Change My Mind: Should There Be an Age Limit For Fertility Treatments? Read the arguments for and against here.
March 26, 2013 - Sara R. Cohen is featured as one of Toronto's world-class mompreneurs in ilovetoronto.com's blog. Read the story here.
March, 2013 - D2Law LLP lawyers were featured twice in the 2013 spring edition of the Infertility
Awareness Association of Canada's magazine, Creating Families! Read Sara R. Cohen's article here about the Pratten decision and how it will affect third party reproduction in Canada or click on it below. Also read Anatoly Dvorkin's article about here about whether an employee undergoing fertility treatments has legal protection in the context of his or her employment, or download it below.
Awareness Association of Canada's magazine, Creating Families! Read Sara R. Cohen's article here about the Pratten decision and how it will affect third party reproduction in Canada or click on it below. Also read Anatoly Dvorkin's article about here about whether an employee undergoing fertility treatments has legal protection in the context of his or her employment, or download it below.
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March 15, 2013 - Here is what Advocate Daily had to say about Sara R. Cohen's recent article in Lawyers Weekly about the competing interests between donors, parents and donor-conceived children in sperm donor caselaw across Canada http://www.advocatedaily.com/2013/03/competing-rights-remain-an-issue-in-sperm-donor-cases/.
February 26, 2013 - Sara R. Cohen reacts to the Ontario government's statement that it will continue not to fund IVF, calling the policy discriminatory and wrong http://www.advocatedaily.com/2013/02/no-provincial-funding-for-ivf-treatments-discriminatory/
December 7, 2012 - Sara R. Cohen's article in the Huffington Post, "It's Not about the Money", discusses the reason for all the uproar in Canadian media about purchasing pre-made embryos for IVF from California IVF. http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/sara-cohen/buying-ivf-embryos-canada_b_2253201.html?utm_hp_ref=canada-living&ir=Canada%20Living&ncid=edlinkusaolp00000008
November 15, 2012 - Sara R. Cohen discusses embryo donation and the law as an alternative to discarding, indefinite cryopreservation or donating leftover embryos to science. Read the article and watch the video here: http://www.advocatedaily.com/2012/11/embryo-donation-an-option-to-consider/
November 8, 2012 - the Omnibus Bill (C38) Impacts Assisted Human Reproduction in Canada. An article about the Sara R. Cohen and Alana Cattapan's presentation on the changes brought to assisted human reproduction in Canada by bill C38, as presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Fertility and Andrology Society (CFAS). http://www.advocatedaily.com/2012/11/bill-impacts-assisted-human-reproduction-in-canada-ready/
September 25, 2012 - here is a folllow up article by Advocate Daily about my article and argument that the AHRA's prohibition of paying for or accepting payment for arranging the services of a surrogate mother does more harm than good. Read the article here: http://www.advocatedaily.com/2012/09/expertise-aimed-at-arranging-a-surrogate-should-be-welcomed/
September 12, 2012 - Sara R. Cohen's article, A Primer on Fertility Law in Canada for Cancer Survivors is published on Cancer Knowledge Networks sites. Read the article here: https://cancerkn.com/a-primer-on-fertility-law-in-canada-for-cancer-survivors-2/_
February 26, 2013 - Sara R. Cohen reacts to the Ontario government's statement that it will continue not to fund IVF, calling the policy discriminatory and wrong http://www.advocatedaily.com/2013/02/no-provincial-funding-for-ivf-treatments-discriminatory/
December 7, 2012 - Sara R. Cohen's article in the Huffington Post, "It's Not about the Money", discusses the reason for all the uproar in Canadian media about purchasing pre-made embryos for IVF from California IVF. http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/sara-cohen/buying-ivf-embryos-canada_b_2253201.html?utm_hp_ref=canada-living&ir=Canada%20Living&ncid=edlinkusaolp00000008
November 15, 2012 - Sara R. Cohen discusses embryo donation and the law as an alternative to discarding, indefinite cryopreservation or donating leftover embryos to science. Read the article and watch the video here: http://www.advocatedaily.com/2012/11/embryo-donation-an-option-to-consider/
November 8, 2012 - the Omnibus Bill (C38) Impacts Assisted Human Reproduction in Canada. An article about the Sara R. Cohen and Alana Cattapan's presentation on the changes brought to assisted human reproduction in Canada by bill C38, as presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Fertility and Andrology Society (CFAS). http://www.advocatedaily.com/2012/11/bill-impacts-assisted-human-reproduction-in-canada-ready/
September 25, 2012 - here is a folllow up article by Advocate Daily about my article and argument that the AHRA's prohibition of paying for or accepting payment for arranging the services of a surrogate mother does more harm than good. Read the article here: http://www.advocatedaily.com/2012/09/expertise-aimed-at-arranging-a-surrogate-should-be-welcomed/
September 12, 2012 - Sara R. Cohen's article, A Primer on Fertility Law in Canada for Cancer Survivors is published on Cancer Knowledge Networks sites. Read the article here: https://cancerkn.com/a-primer-on-fertility-law-in-canada-for-cancer-survivors-2/_
October 2012 - Read Karma Brown's excellent article, Frozen in Time, published in Canadian Family magazine about the choices available to Canadians regarding embryo donation of leftover embryos. Sara is quoted and consulted in this article about the legalities of embryo donation in Canada.
Autumn 2012 - Read Sara R. Cohen's paper, The Prohibition on "Paying or Accepting Consideration for Arranging for the Services of a Surrogate Mother" - What it Means, and Why it Does More Harm Than Good, published in Creating Families, the magazine for Infertility Awareness Association of Canada.
August 22, 2012 - Sara R. Cohen's comments about the precedent setting decision regarding the enforceability of sperm donor agreements in Ontario http://www.advocatedaily.com/2012/08/case-may-set-precedent-on-legality-of-sperm-donor-agreements/
August 15, 2012 - Sara R. Cohen is the subject of Advocate Daily's Legal Brief, profiling lawyers in Toronto. Read the interview with Sara here: http://www.advocatedaily.com/2012/08/legal-brief-sara-cohen/
July 11, 2012 - Sara R. Cohen is honoured to be included as one of Yummy Mummy Club's
most inspirational Mompreneurs. Here is what Sara had to say and her advice
here: http://www.yummymummyclub.ca/life/work/mompreneur-advice-from-sara-cohen
July 9, 2012 - Sara R. Cohen is interviewed by Project Sweet Spot about making the leap from
commercial litigation to her passion, Fertility Law Canada. Watch it here: http://youtu.be/jRxUSqDyHVQ
June 4, 2012 - Sara R. Cohen's article about single mothers and single fathers by
choice through assisted reproductive technologies, including egg, sperm and
embryo donation and surrogacy http://www.fortylicious.ca/articles/2012/06/single-parents-by-choice-through-assisted-reproductive-technologies/
June 2, 2012 - Sara R. Cohen was interviewed by Annemarie Shrider of LGBT
Fertility Journey about how fertility law affects Canadians in the LGBT community. This episode, we focused mostly on legal parentage (including declarations of parentage) in the context of same-sex parents, known donors and families with more than two parents. Listen here: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/lgbtfertility/2012/06/02/fertility-law
June 1, 2012 - Sara R. Cohen was quoted in The Globe and Mail, The clock is ticking:
female fertility declines earlier than you think, about how women may feel they
have no choice but to delay pregnancy for their career or societal pressures http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/parenting/pregnancy/fertility/the-clock-is-ticking-female-fertility-declines-earlier-than-you-think/article2448676/
May 2, 2012 - Sara R. Cohen's post about whether it's legal or criminal to purchase
eggs from a US egg bank and import them into Canada, and why it's important was
featured on the Huffington Post blog here: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/sara-cohen/donor-eggs_b_1465807.html?ref=canada
April 11, 2012 - Sara R. Cohen was a guest of Anna Maria Tremonti on CBC's The
Current, discussing the future of assisted reproductive technology law in Canada
and the need for legislative reform. Listen to the debate here: http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/episode/2012/04/11/the-future-of-assisted-human-reproduction/
April 6, 2012 - Sara R. Cohen is one of the lawyers discussed in the Lawyers Weekly
article entitled, Passion, Vision Fuel Niche Lawyers. Sara states that
"I can’t imagine doing anything more rewarding. Even if I play a very small
role in helping people to create their families, it is incredibly fulfilling.”
See the full article here.
April 2, 2012 - Sara R. Cohen is quoted by Andre Picard in The Globe and Mail about the problems with fertility law in Canada and why the Assisted Human Reproduction Act needs to go. See the article, Canada's Fertility Law Needs a Reset, here: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/new-health/andre-picard/canadas-fertility-law-needs-a-reset/article2389474/
April 2, 2012 - Sara R. Cohen is quoted by Anne Kingston for Macleans.ca about the
effects of leaving Assisted Human Reproduction Canada out of the federal budget,
and what Sara wants to see happen to fertility law in Canada: http://www2.macleans.ca/tag/fertility-technology/
March 28, 2012 - Sara R. Cohen appears on Canada AM and discusses her views about the
law regarding egg donation in Canada and why it needs to change http://www.ctv.ca/canadaAMPlayer/index.html?video=646480
March 27, 2012 - Sara R. Cohen discusses how she believes the Assisted Human Reproduction Act (AHRA) is paternalistic and assumes women cannot make reasonable and informed decisions about what is best for them http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Health/20120327/egg-donors-compensation-fertility-120327/
January 3, 2011 - Sara R. Cohen is the lead story in Law Times, discussing problems with the current framework for fertility law in Canada, especially as it affects intended parents, surrogate mothers and donors. See the article here:http://lawtimesnews.com/201201028856/Headline-News/Loopholes-in-law-spark-rise-in-illegal-surrogacy-deals
January 3, 2011 - Sara R. Cohen discusses how one year after the Supreme Court of
Canada's Reference re Assisted Human Reproduction Act decision was released, there continue to be large, gaping holes in the legislation. See the article here: http://www.advocatedaily.com/2012/01/dark-shades-of-grey-in-reproductive-law-sara-cohen/
November 21, 2011 - watch Sara R. Cohen discuss how surrogacy law in Canada ought to be
changed to reflect the reality of the situation instead of the theoretical evils
that the legislation was based on, referring to research by Professor Karen
Busby, University of Manitoba. Click here to watch AdvocateTV
November 10, 2011 - Sara R. Cohen was quoted in Winnipeg's The Uniter about the confusion
and legislative gaps with respect to surrogacy law in Canada. See the article here: http://uniter.ca/view/6892/
September 16, 2011 - Sara R. Cohen was interviewed on the Dave Rutherford radio show on QR77 about surrogacy law in Canada. Listen to the two part show here:
http://www.daverutherford.com/segments/2011_09_16_Segment_6.mp3
http://www.daverutherford.com/segments/2011_09_16_Segment_7.mp3
September 16, 2011 - Sara R. Cohen was quoted in the article, "Breaking your own Glass
Ceiling" in the Globe and Mail about her feelings of fulfillment and empowerment by starting her own fertility law practice. See the article here:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/careers/career-advice/leah-eichler/breaking-your-own-glass-ceiling/article2168987/
August 16, 2011 - Sara R. Cohen was quoted in the Toronto Sun about surrogacy law in
Canada. See the article here:
http://www.torontosun.com/2011/08/15/is-hollywood-turning-surrogacy-into-a-trend
July 11, 2012 - Sara R. Cohen is honoured to be included as one of Yummy Mummy Club's
most inspirational Mompreneurs. Here is what Sara had to say and her advice
here: http://www.yummymummyclub.ca/life/work/mompreneur-advice-from-sara-cohen
July 9, 2012 - Sara R. Cohen is interviewed by Project Sweet Spot about making the leap from
commercial litigation to her passion, Fertility Law Canada. Watch it here: http://youtu.be/jRxUSqDyHVQ
June 4, 2012 - Sara R. Cohen's article about single mothers and single fathers by
choice through assisted reproductive technologies, including egg, sperm and
embryo donation and surrogacy http://www.fortylicious.ca/articles/2012/06/single-parents-by-choice-through-assisted-reproductive-technologies/
June 2, 2012 - Sara R. Cohen was interviewed by Annemarie Shrider of LGBT
Fertility Journey about how fertility law affects Canadians in the LGBT community. This episode, we focused mostly on legal parentage (including declarations of parentage) in the context of same-sex parents, known donors and families with more than two parents. Listen here: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/lgbtfertility/2012/06/02/fertility-law
June 1, 2012 - Sara R. Cohen was quoted in The Globe and Mail, The clock is ticking:
female fertility declines earlier than you think, about how women may feel they
have no choice but to delay pregnancy for their career or societal pressures http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/parenting/pregnancy/fertility/the-clock-is-ticking-female-fertility-declines-earlier-than-you-think/article2448676/
May 2, 2012 - Sara R. Cohen's post about whether it's legal or criminal to purchase
eggs from a US egg bank and import them into Canada, and why it's important was
featured on the Huffington Post blog here: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/sara-cohen/donor-eggs_b_1465807.html?ref=canada
April 11, 2012 - Sara R. Cohen was a guest of Anna Maria Tremonti on CBC's The
Current, discussing the future of assisted reproductive technology law in Canada
and the need for legislative reform. Listen to the debate here: http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/episode/2012/04/11/the-future-of-assisted-human-reproduction/
April 6, 2012 - Sara R. Cohen is one of the lawyers discussed in the Lawyers Weekly
article entitled, Passion, Vision Fuel Niche Lawyers. Sara states that
"I can’t imagine doing anything more rewarding. Even if I play a very small
role in helping people to create their families, it is incredibly fulfilling.”
See the full article here.
April 2, 2012 - Sara R. Cohen is quoted by Andre Picard in The Globe and Mail about the problems with fertility law in Canada and why the Assisted Human Reproduction Act needs to go. See the article, Canada's Fertility Law Needs a Reset, here: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/new-health/andre-picard/canadas-fertility-law-needs-a-reset/article2389474/
April 2, 2012 - Sara R. Cohen is quoted by Anne Kingston for Macleans.ca about the
effects of leaving Assisted Human Reproduction Canada out of the federal budget,
and what Sara wants to see happen to fertility law in Canada: http://www2.macleans.ca/tag/fertility-technology/
March 28, 2012 - Sara R. Cohen appears on Canada AM and discusses her views about the
law regarding egg donation in Canada and why it needs to change http://www.ctv.ca/canadaAMPlayer/index.html?video=646480
March 27, 2012 - Sara R. Cohen discusses how she believes the Assisted Human Reproduction Act (AHRA) is paternalistic and assumes women cannot make reasonable and informed decisions about what is best for them http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Health/20120327/egg-donors-compensation-fertility-120327/
January 3, 2011 - Sara R. Cohen is the lead story in Law Times, discussing problems with the current framework for fertility law in Canada, especially as it affects intended parents, surrogate mothers and donors. See the article here:http://lawtimesnews.com/201201028856/Headline-News/Loopholes-in-law-spark-rise-in-illegal-surrogacy-deals
January 3, 2011 - Sara R. Cohen discusses how one year after the Supreme Court of
Canada's Reference re Assisted Human Reproduction Act decision was released, there continue to be large, gaping holes in the legislation. See the article here: http://www.advocatedaily.com/2012/01/dark-shades-of-grey-in-reproductive-law-sara-cohen/
November 21, 2011 - watch Sara R. Cohen discuss how surrogacy law in Canada ought to be
changed to reflect the reality of the situation instead of the theoretical evils
that the legislation was based on, referring to research by Professor Karen
Busby, University of Manitoba. Click here to watch AdvocateTV
November 10, 2011 - Sara R. Cohen was quoted in Winnipeg's The Uniter about the confusion
and legislative gaps with respect to surrogacy law in Canada. See the article here: http://uniter.ca/view/6892/
September 16, 2011 - Sara R. Cohen was interviewed on the Dave Rutherford radio show on QR77 about surrogacy law in Canada. Listen to the two part show here:
http://www.daverutherford.com/segments/2011_09_16_Segment_6.mp3
http://www.daverutherford.com/segments/2011_09_16_Segment_7.mp3
September 16, 2011 - Sara R. Cohen was quoted in the article, "Breaking your own Glass
Ceiling" in the Globe and Mail about her feelings of fulfillment and empowerment by starting her own fertility law practice. See the article here:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/careers/career-advice/leah-eichler/breaking-your-own-glass-ceiling/article2168987/
August 16, 2011 - Sara R. Cohen was quoted in the Toronto Sun about surrogacy law in
Canada. See the article here:
http://www.torontosun.com/2011/08/15/is-hollywood-turning-surrogacy-into-a-trend