A growing number of Israeli parents wants to surgically remove sperm from their dead sons in hopes of passing on their genes...
An Israeli family could not just accept the death of their 25 year old son, in a car accident. They went to get the necessary court order allowing them to take their deceased son’s sperm out of his body. Now they want to buy an egg form a donor, hire a surrogate mother to carry it and create a grandchild with that sperm. The baby would grow up with a dead father and an anonymous mother.
Depending on the cause of death, sperm can be collected up to 48h after someone passes.
Since the late 1980s, several countries including France, Germany and Sweden have banned this practice for ethical reasons, even when there is written consent from the deceased.
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