UK judge refuses request for posthumous sperm retrieval
With few laws regulating it, judges often grant permission to grieving partners or parents to retrieve sperm from young men who have died unexpectedly. But...
What is the limit for posthumous sperm donation?
A baby has been born in the United Kingdom from 26-year-old sperm. His 47-year-old father, Peter Hickles, describes it as a miracle. “ The fact that...
Israel studying regulation of post-mortem sperm retrieval
Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, is considering legislation to regulate the increasingly common practice of post-mortem sperm retrieval to enable grandparents to have descendants. Under the...
Is Singapore ready for mass production of eggs and sperm from stem cells?
Scientists have generated artificial lab-grown sperm and eggs from rats and mice, which have gone on to successfully produced healthy offspring, a procedure known as...
Scotland: legal battle over trans girl’s sperm
For the latest episode in the Reproductive Revolution, BioEdge turns to Scotland. A 16-year-old transgender girl, Ellie Anderson, died last month of “unascertained” causes after...
Sperm donation from deceased donors should be permitted, ethicists say
A new JME article makes the case for harvesting sperm from dead donors. Scientists should be allowed to harvest sperm from dead donors, according to...
Parents of deceased West Point cadet get right to use his sperm to create a child
Judge says that the man would have agreed although there is no written proof Peter Zhu A New York judge has ruled that the...
Parents request sperm retrieval from brain-damaged West Point cadet
They plead for family line not to be extinguished A court has allowed doctors to retrieve sperm from the body of a brain-damaged West Point...
British grandparents use dead son’s sperm to create child
Allegations of criminal behaviour by urologist Another fascinating chapter in the unfolding history of the Reproductive Revolution, this time about posthumous sperm extraction. A few...
What are the issues in post-mortem sperm retrieval?
Is it ethical to remove sperm from a dead body without consent? In 2010 21-year-old Niklas Evans was assaulted outside a bar in Texas. He...
IVF consultation launched in Australia
Australia is to conduct a review of the ethics and clinical practice of assisted reproductive technology. Australia is to conduct a review of the ethics...
Legal complications of posthumous reproduction
Thanks to frozen sperm and frozen embryos, it is possible for a man to have offspring after death, even many years after his death. This...