Israel Extracting Sperm From Dead Soldiers and Using It to Create Children

In Israel, the families of fallen soldiers are having their dead loved ones' sperm taken so that it can be used to father a child.

A number of children have been born this way. Hundreds of Israeli women are volunteering to help carry the children. The Middle Eastern state's parliament passed preliminary legislation in March to support the practice.

We are starting with the military because we want people who are 18 to 21 to serve their country. "If something happens to you, we take good care of you, and if you die, we take good care of your parents and children. If you don't have a child and would like to leave one, we can give that to your wife or parents.

Similar procedures have been banned in some countries while the US has different regulations. Most US frameworks for similar procedures are for widows. The parents of these young men are fighting for their right to have a grandchild, which has some people raising their eyebrows.

Gil Siegal, head of the Center for Medical Law, Bioethics, and Health Policy at Israel's Ono Academic College, said it was in a child's best interests to be born to living parents. "My heart goes out to the parents who have lost a child, but the discourse around fertility and birth needs to start with the father."

He said that when you retrieve sperm from a dead man, you're trying to restore something. It's like putting up a monument.

According to the report, the bill takes the dead men's wishes into account when it comes to what happens to their sperm in the event of their death.

The life most impacted by such a choice is not the man's, nor is it that of the surrogate, partner, or grandparents. While the Israeli government provides financial support to the children of soldiers killed on duty, it doesn't seem like they will do the same for postmortem babies.

The current stipend is for lost income from the father. When a soldier dies and leaves a child, the state says to the child, "I hurt you, I took your father, and I am paying you for it." This is not the same as the previous one. There wasn't a child.

The postmortem sperm retrieval is turning dead men into fathers.

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