NYS Judge Grants Parents of Deceased Son Right To Use His Sperm To Produce Grandchildren. (ethical, legal)
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Long story short West Point cadet suddenly falls ill and dies. Parents attempt to force hospital to retrieve their son's sperm in order to have it kept frozen and used at later date to produce grandchildren. Family is Chinese and deceased was their only son; if he didn't have children their line would die out.
Hospital initially refused to retrieve sperm, so family brought legal action. Judge ordered hospital to do the deed, and further ordered sperm be kept (frozen) until his ruling.
Personally find this gross at best, and disgusting at worse. What right do parents have to harvest sperm and thus attempt to create a grandchild from a dead man? The whole thing sounds ghoulish.
In estate planning these days it is not uncommon to ask if there is frozen genetic material and whether children born of that material should be included in the estate planning documents.
In estate planning these days it is not uncommon to ask if there is frozen genetic material and whether children born of that material should be included in the estate planning documents.
Welcome to our brave new world.
I mean, it's one thing if he had the sperm frozen before he died, but trying to "retrieve" it from his comatose body, that's just a whole new level of creepy.
I mean, it's one thing if he had the sperm frozen before he died, but trying to "retrieve" it from his comatose body, that's just a whole new level of creepy.
Your point is well taken. That would seem to be of a different nature.
I mean, it's one thing if he had the sperm frozen before he died, but trying to "retrieve" it from his comatose body, that's just a whole new level of creepy.
Chinese culture is very very different.
Continuing the male line is very important to the culture. Even Mao could not end it.
So we know then what's coming down the pike...
These some kind of Chinese parents are going to seek out a surrogate and doctor that will allow them to "select" the sex of offspring sired by this harvested sperm. If only a male child or two will do then cannot see them committing vast time and financial resources required for surrogacy only to find out months into the pregnancy child is going to be a girl. What then? Force the surrogate to have an abortion? Put the infant girl up for adoption and try, try again?
Just because something can be done, doesn't mean that it should. This judge has opened up a huge can of ethical worms of which harvesting the sperm was just the beginning.
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