zakur
14th November 2003, 11:44 AM
Israel to Let Wives Harvest Dead Husbands' Sperm (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=571&ncid=751&e=7&u=/nm/20031113/hl_nm/health_israel_sperm_dc)
Israeli widows will be able to harvest the sperm of their dead husbands even if the men did not give their consent while alive, under a new directive described by experts as unprecedented in the world of fertility treatment.
Attorney-General Eliyakim Rubinstein's legal guidelines, released on Thursday, would spare many Israeli widows a court battle should they wish to bear their dead husbands' children.
"In a situation where a partner is interested in having a child with the sperm of the deceased it is appropriate to allow her to do so," Rubinstein said.
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Guido Pennings, a member of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) ethics committee, said he knows of no other country that allows wives or life partners to remove sperm from the deceased without prior written consent.
Israeli widows will be able to harvest the sperm of their dead husbands even if the men did not give their consent while alive, under a new directive described by experts as unprecedented in the world of fertility treatment.
Attorney-General Eliyakim Rubinstein's legal guidelines, released on Thursday, would spare many Israeli widows a court battle should they wish to bear their dead husbands' children.
"In a situation where a partner is interested in having a child with the sperm of the deceased it is appropriate to allow her to do so," Rubinstein said.
[...]
Guido Pennings, a member of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) ethics committee, said he knows of no other country that allows wives or life partners to remove sperm from the deceased without prior written consent.