Israeli Man to Become a Father From Beyond the Grave
Posted on January 30, 2007
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An Israeli court has ruled that the family of a dead solider can use his sperm to create a child. According to the CBC, the man, Keivan Cohen, was single, and left no will. However, his parents had urged him to make a deposit at the sperm bank–so they still have a grandchild if he was killed in the line of duty, apparently.
The man supposedly “yearned to raise a family.” As a result, the courts overturned the hospitals decision not to turn over the sperm to the man’s parents. I’m not sure how a desire to raise a family equates to a desire to impregnate a woman you’ve never met, after you’ve already died, but apparently the Israeli courts thing it does.
Personally, I think when a person expresses a desire to raise a family, that assumes they want to be alive to, you know, actually raise said family. Still, the article does mention that it’s becoming more common for soldiers in both Israeli and the United States to leave behind a sperm sample before going into combat missions, with the assumption that these samples will be used to carry on their bloodlines if they are killed in action. It’s possible that Cohen expected the same would be done with his sample, despite the fact that he had neither a wife, nor a significant other.
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