/R E P E A T -- Media Advisory - Photo Op - Family Day rally asking the
government to deliver on its promise to make building a family more
accessible in the March 2010 budget/

Cost of IVF prohibits many couples from having a family

TORONTO, Feb. 11 /CNW/ -

    
    What:     Couples from across the GTA will assemble the Building Blocks
              to Build Families on Family Day to ask the Ontario government
              to keep its promise and expand OHIP coverage for in-vitro
              fertilization (IVF). This is a final call to the Ontario
              government to fund IVF in the March 2010 budget, a decision
              that could save the province millions of dollars in long term
              health costs.

              The event will begin with the building blocks being assembled
              and conclude with participants being invited to dismantle the
              building blocks (made from 100 boxes of diapers) and carry them
              to a truck which will deliver them to a local shelter.

    Photo Op: Larger than life building blocks set up on the steps of the
              legislature at Queen's Park to illustrate how much the Ontario
              government could be saving by funding IVF treatments.

    Who:      Conceivable Dreams - the OHIP for IVF Coalition is a grassroots
              organization founded by three infertility patients. The
              Coalition currently has 1,100 members.

    Speakers: - Joanne Horibe, Co-Founder, Conceivable Dreams
              - Jane Evans, an infertility patient
              - Dr. Art Leader, Member of the Ontario Expert Panel and
                physician and professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and
                Medicine at the University of Ottawa, and a co-founder of the
                Ottawa Fertility Centre
              - Cheri DiNovo, MPP, NDP Critic for Women's Issues

    When:     Family Day, Monday, February 15, 2010, starting at 10:45 a.m.

    Where:    South Grounds of the Ontario Legislative Building, Queen's Park
    

For further information: Noemie Wiggett, Environics Communications, [phone], [email protected]