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It is Ottawa's attempt at balancing what's ethical against what's practical. Draft legislation was presented by the federal government today on human reproductive technologies, everything from cloning to fertility clinics, and even medical research would come under the new law. Legislation that many people say is long overdue. Susan Harada joins us now from Ottawa to explain. Peter, it's been more than a decade since a Royal Commission began studying new reproductive technologies, about four years since legislation to govern it died on the order paper because of an election call.