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Quebec spent more than half a million dollars over two years trying in vain to get 44-year-old women pregnant using in-vitro fertilization.

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Carrying triplets for complete strangers, the Ontario woman developed first high blood pressure, then congestive heart failure, before she was put into a medically induced coma last fall to save her life — and that of the infants.

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The new research serves as a cautionary tale — not just for Ontario and all of Canada, but also for older women paying for the pricey procedures themselves.