)<\/span><\/p>\nIn short, the soldier died, and the parents had his sperm extracted from his dead body. They then advertised to attract women who might want to be impregnated by this sperm. They found one, and after this court ruling, are able to proceed.<\/p>\n
This all happened without the son leaving a will, or expressing anything in writing saying that he wanted to do anything of the sort. But the parents say that he had always wanted children.<\/p>\n
I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m of two minds here:<\/p>\n
1.<\/p>\n
Whether he wanted children or not is beside the point, because he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll never have children. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s dead. And wanting children is completely different from wanting to donate sperm to a random woman he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s never met. (I accept that the parents didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t choose her at random, but I wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want my parents choosing my mate. To me, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s practically random.)<\/p>\n
After all, he could have donated sperm before he died. He was in the army, in the Gaza strip. Death was a possibility. But he didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t and he didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even leave a will stating something of the sort. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ridiculous to present this as some kind of fulfillment of his dream to have a family.<\/p>\n
2.<\/p>\n
He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s dead. Who cares what they do with his body or his genetics? He doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t.<\/p>\n
But I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not sure how far I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d take this. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m dead, so what do I care if my wife sells my body to the highest bidder? But I do kind of care (now). Should that matter once I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m dead?<\/p>\n
If it does matter, then I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m back to #1 above. His wanting a family shouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t give his parents carte blanche to make babies with his sperm. One thing doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t equal the other. But if death means that nothing matters, then I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m here at #2, which is kind of uncomfortable.<\/p>\n
I think that generally, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d be against this decision. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know enough about it to say for sure (more information usually means more nuance and harder decisions), but based on what little I know, it seems wrong. To me, the dead guy gets nothing at all and his parents get a grandkid by pretending that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s all for him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In Israel, courts just allowed parents to use their dead son\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sperm to impregnate a woman he never met. (Link) In short, the soldier died, and the parents had his sperm extracted from his dead body. They then advertised to attract women who might want to be impregnated by this sperm. They found one, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanity","category-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}