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Paid surrogacy driven underground in Canada: CBC report

Wednesday, May 2, 2007, CBC News

The risk of a $500,000 fine or up to 10 years in jail has not eliminated paid surrogacy among infertile couples in Canada but has driven the practice underground, a CBC News investigation has found.

Under the Assisted Human Reproduction Technology Act passed in 2004, a surrogate who carries a fetus for others may be reimbursed for expenses such as prenatal vitamins and costs of traveling to the doctor. She cannot receive any sort of wage for carrying the child.

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