sentences:  cancer, endometriosis), and entirely excluding infertile men.The litigation convinced Ontario to strike an advisory panel on infertility that included Attaran in exchange for him adjourning the hearing, the result of which was that the province finally accepted to fund IVF, mooting the legal challenge.In 2008, Attaran took out an Globe and Mail, op-ed, denouncing the Department of National Defence (DND) to support for Canada involvement in the war in Afghanistan through the financing of think tanks and academic suggesting that they can face allegation of being viewed as tainted.