De facto, de jure... I blame the confusion on the fact that my brain was still trying to recover from a week of killing temperatures and continuous smog alerts. (Right now, I'd almost rather be in Australia [or anywhere where it's not summer] - though not in the middle of any floods.)

Restrictions on fertility treatments such as the one you mention are completely ridiculous - I'm glad the law was changed.

In Canada, we have our own ridiculous situation at the moment. While single people can receive fertility treatments - though I must admit, I don't know how long that's been true - it is illegal to buy or sell human reproductive cells. That means that there's a real shortage of anonymous donors for both sperm and ova, because who wants to go through the hassle (sperm dononrs have to be tested for all sorts of communicable diseases, and then get tested again after six months before their donation can be used, and of course, what ova donors go through is incredibly invasive and painful) unless you're doing it do a specific person you care about. The answer is, not many people.