Judge’s groundbreaking decision: In spite of widow’s strenuous objections, Israeli court finds parents of deceased combat soldier can use their son’s sperm to father a child.
By Yoram Yarkoni
This is a story involving some tough dilemmas: Who owns sperm left behind by a reserve soldier killed during an army training exercise – his widow or his parents? What was the will of the deceased, and does the state have the right to allow a child to be born already an orphan?
The bereaved mother with her son. ‘He definitely wanted children.’
In the end, the court handed down a precedential and groundbreaking ruling: The parents are entitled to a grandchild from their son’s sperm.
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