Gynecology and Reproductive Endocrinology

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Gynecology and Reproductive Endocrinology 44 7897 074717

Health Care Ethics Scholarly Peer-review Journal

 Health Care Ethics Scholarly Peer-review Journal Posthumous sperm bioethics Retrieval of viable sperm after death, first described by Rothman in 1980,2 raises significantly different issues. It has been reported within the popular press that a baby has been born using posthumous sperm collection3 after a young man died unexpectedly from an allergic According to his wife appeal, sperm was collected few hours after death. Fifteen months later his sperm were wont to impregnate his widow. Such requests are infrequent; 82 were reported within the US during a 1997 study, of which about one-third were honoured. Reported successes will likely encourage more requests. In addition, the arrival of intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) now makes it possible to fertilize an egg within the laboratory employing a single sperm instead of the several cubic centimetres of semen required for artificial insemination. After describing the technical feasibility of sperm retrieval after death, however, a typical textbook of urology concludes: “the ethical appropriateness of such retrieval is that the most vital issue surrounding its use”. An identical endpoint the dramatic birth of a dead man’s baby makes voluntary sperm donation before death and involuntary sperm retrieval after death seem only alittle step apart. The difference between these two procedures is not, however, a small step.

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