IVF Babies Born Aborad Test Canada’s Citizenship Laws

January 8, 2015

(Vancouver Sun) – At least two cases of children conceived artificially and born overseas are challenging this country’s hereditary citizenship laws, which stipulate that a child must be genetically related to at least one parent to be considered Canadian. The cases involve children who were conceived via in vitro fertilization using sperm and egg from anonymous donors and are therefore not genetically related to either parent. In one case involving a B.C. couple, the embryo was implanted in the woman who hoped to become the mother. In another, the embryo was implanted in a surrogate. Both children were born in India.