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Today IVF4BC made a presentation to the Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services. Our ask was for publicly funded infertility treatments here in BC.
NOW WE NEED YOUR HELP!
Below is a list of the committee members. Now that they have seen our presentation it is UP TO YOU to let them know what this would mean to you and your family.
Please go to our website www.ivf4bc.ca and to SHARE YOUR STORY for easy ways to contact your MLA along with these committee members.
Bob D'Eith (Chair) (Mission-Maple Ridge)
Dan Ashton (Deputy Chair) (Penticton)
Nicholas Simons (Powell River-Sunshine Coast)
Stephanie Cadieux (Surrey-Panorama)
Mitzi Dean (Esquimalt-Metchosin)
Sonia Furstenau (Cowichan Valley)
Ronna-Rae Leonard (Courtenay-Comox)
Peter Milobar (Kamloops-North Thompson)
Tracy Redies (Surrey-White Rock)
Contact information available at link below
Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services
leg.bc.ca
The Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services is one of ten permanent all-party committees of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia.
Tracy Redies has asked me to have a meeting with her about the email I sent her!!! Hoping it can help with moving things forward! Let’s get some public funding for IVF! 🙏🏻👶🏻💕
Here is the PDF from our website. Show the committee how important this is to us and email them today. www.ivf4bc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/IVF4BC_One_Pager.pdf Once you email them Let us know on this thread. Encourage others to do the same.
So I just send each of these people and then my MLA what this would mean to myself and other families? And how this should be included in our healthcare?
I’ve shared our story to your site before and I’ve also sent a lot of letters to our local government! Today I sent my letter to all the names listed above! Praying!! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻👶🏻👶🏻👶🏻👶🏻
Thank you for this information! I will write to all of these politicians and send out the letters Monday.
I’m 100% doing this! Thank you, Michelle
Tom Shypitka please look this and how important and how direly needed it is.
Karla 💕🙏🏻 have you sent letters? 😄
Amanda Dawn Riddell
Brenna Willis
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Take a look at the checklist we have created for patient advocates. Easy ideas here. https://t.co/jKnGIEQE1t #IVF4BC #bcpoli #weare1in6
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