Dr. Alana Cattapan
Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair in the Politics of Reproduction, University of Waterloo
Reproductive politics, reproductive technologies, biotechnologies, health policy, public policy, feminism and gender studies, Canadian politics, public engagement and consultation
Media
The Trouble with Paying for Sperm
The Toronto Star, April 9, 2016Print
URL: https://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2016/04/09/the-trouble-with-paying-for-sperm.html
Commentary on the cross-border semen trade and relevant Canadian regulation. (w/ Françoise Baylis)
Limited Funding for IVF Does Not Go Far Enough
The Toronto Star, April 15, 2015Print
Commentary on the public funding of IVF in Ontario
Don’t Commercialize Women’s Bodies
Montreal Gazette, March 12, 2016Print
Letter to the editor about the commercialization of surrogacy (w/ Françoise Baylis)
Changing the law to allow payment for surrogacy is fraught with complications
Cattapan: Who gets the frozen embryos in the divorce?
Paying attentions to the mundane policy issues
New reproductive technology regulations don't go far enough
After a newborn was found in a recycling bin, a safe haven baby hatch may save lives
Why isn't Canada a net contributer to the global plasma supply?
'Perpetually potentially pregnant' project nets $56K grant
A push in Alberta for "pay-for-plasma" abstracts from bigger questions
Why Ontario's IVF Funding Structure is Not the Answer
TVO.org, October 26, 2015Online
Commentary on the public funding of IVF in Ontario
The Curious Case of Informed Consent for Egg Donation
BMJ: Journal of Medical Ethics Blog, March 17, 2016Online
Commentary on original research project on Canadian consent forms for egg donation
Sex-Selective Abortion is About More than Wishing for Male Children
TVO.org, April 19, 2016Online
Commentary on sex-selective abortion in Ontario
Ontario Should Focus on Preventing Infertility Instead of Treating It
Healthydebate.ca, November 15, 2015Online
URL: http://healthydebate.ca/opinions/ontario-ivf-funding-infertility-prevention
Commentary on the funding of IVF in Ontario
The Devil We Know: The Implications of Bill C-38 for Assisted Human Reproduction in Canada
Published by Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada
July 1, 2013
w/ Sara Cohen
Rhetoric and Reality: ‘Protecting’ Women in Canadian Public Policy on Assisted Human Reproduction
Published by Canadian Journal of Women and the Law
November 1, 2013
Risky Business: Surrogacy, Egg Donation, and the Politics of Exploitation
Published by Canadian Journal of Law and Society
December 1, 2014
Social Egg Freezing: Risk, Benefits and Other Considerations
Published by Canadian Medical Association Journal
April 13, 2016
w/ Angel Petropanagos, Françoise Baylis, and Art Leader
URL: http://www.cmaj.ca/content/early/2015/04/13/cmaj.141605.extract
Patient Decision Making on the Disposition of Surplus Cryopreserved Embryos in Canada
Published by Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada
January 1, 2016
w/ Ashley Doyle
URL: http://comingsoon.jogc.com/article/S1701-2163(15)00021-3/abstract
Notions of Harm in Canadian Law: Addressing Exposures to Household Chemicals as Reproductive Torts
Published by Canadian Journal of Comparative and Contemporary Law
January 1, 2015
w/ Roxanne Mykitiuk and Mark Pioro
URL: http://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/cajccl1&div=4&id=&page=
Of Research and Reproduction: Defining Embryo Research in Canada
Published by Monash Bioethics Review
December 1, 2015
w/ Dave Snow
URL: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs40592-015-0044-9
Good Eggs? Evaluating Consent Forms for Egg Donation
Published by Journal of Medical Ethics
March 7, 2016
Frozen in Perpetuity? ‘Abandoned Embryos’ in Canada
Published by Reproductive Biomedicine and Society Online
December 1, 2015
w/ Françoise Baylis
URL: http://www.rbmsociety.com/article/S2405-6618(16)30002-8/abstract
Contesting Estimates of Cryopreserved Embryos in the United States
Published by Nature Biotechnology
September 8, 2015
w/ Dave Snow and Françoise Baylis
URL: http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v33/n9/full/nbt.3342.html
Breaking the Ice: Young Feminist Scholars of Reproductive Politics Reflect on Egg Freezing
Published by International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics
November 1, 2014
w/ Katie Hammond, Jennie Haw, and Lesley Tarasoff
URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/10.3138/ijfab.7.2.0236.pdf?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
(Re)Writing ‘Feminism in Canada’: Wikipedia in the Feminist Classroom
Published by Feminist Teacher
January 1, 2012
Biography
Alana Cattapan is the Canada Research Chair in the Politics of Reproduction and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Waterloo. She studies gendered inclusion in policy making, identifying links between the state, the commercialization of the body, and reproductive labour.