Starting April 1, 2025, B.C. will join other provinces in funding an initial IVF treatment for those struggling with infertility or other challenges to having a child.
B.C. NDP Leader David Eby highlighted his government’s pledge to fund in vitro fertilization at an event Tuesday with Vancouver Island’s first couple to have a “test-tube baby” almost four decades ago, and a couple trying to conceive today.
“It was extremely expensive — it was hard to even fathom that we could get that money together,” said Lia, who was a civil servant, and notes the couple didn’t have the collateral for a loan. Desiree Cabecinha, 37, who is preparing to begin IVF to start a family with partner Teri Parker, 38, said that to afford the treatments — $11,000 for the donor sperm on top of $20,000 in IVF treatments — the couple has downsized to a condo from a townhome and is “indefinitely” postponing their wedding.
B.C. is the first province to make birth control free for women — prescriptions are available through a pharmacist for those without a family doctor — as well as emergency contraceptive Plan B.
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