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Ontario appears to have rejected the advice of its expert advisers and will make taxpayer-funded in-vitro fertilization treatment available to everyone — regardless of age or other factors — suggests a description of the new program obtained by the National Post.

The policy will soon be the only of its kind in Canada and likely watched closely by other provinces facing pressure also to finance IVF, which involves creating embryos in a lab, then inserting them in the patient’s womb.

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Most people now pay for the treatment themselves, about $10,000 a round.

Sources say the advisory committee appointed by Ontario had urged anyone over 42 or morbidly obese be excluded from government-subsidized in-vitro, given statistics showing their chances of getting pregnant are slim.

But a Health Ministry presentation last month said the program, expected to be officially announced Wednesday, would be open to anyone with a medicare card.