Question

John, a 30-year-old male, married and the father of a two-year-old daughter, is diagnosed as brain dead after a motorcycle accident. Mary, his wife, arrives at the hospital and signs the papers for multiple organ procurement and makes one additional request—that her deceased husband’s sperm be obtained and frozen. She intends to arrange for in vitro fertilization using her own ovum and the salvaged sperm from her now deceased husband. She tells the attending chaplain, “I don’t want our daughter growing up alone. Now that she has lost her father it’s all the more important for her to have a sibling.” The surviving widow admits to finding personal comfort in the thought of bearing another child with her deceased husband’s sperm, though she also admits that her husband was reluctant to have another child—a point of some contention between them while he was alive. Finally, she acknowledges that if the vitro fertilization is successful, she prays that God will give her twins.

You are a member of the hospital bioethics committee quickly convened to give guidance to the hospital staff. Are there any reservations on ethical grounds you can envision to this request to harvest the sperm? You will need to consider who has legal possession of the deceased man‘s sperm and whether there are moral or legal limits to his widow’s use of his sperm. You will need to consider the rights of the deceased husband, his now widowed wife, their sole child and the possible additional members of the family, using the basic principles of autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, and justice.

Answer 1

It has been possible for a few decades to obtain a man’s sperm after his death and use it to fertilize an egg. Today, requests for postmortem sperm retrieval (PMSR) are growingPMS. Here, a group of specialists portrays the instance of a man who experienced orchidectomy in the wake of being confirmed mind dead, and an obstetrician, neurosurgeon they are clearly say there organs are still have life

On basis of it we can clearly go for PMSR

yet the United States has no guidelines governing the retrieval of sperm from deceased men, said Dr. Larry Lipshultz, a urologist at Baylor College of Medicine in Texas.

In the absence of government regulations, medical institutions should come up with their own rules so they can handle the time-sensitive and ethically questionable procedure.

institutions trying to draft a protocol for these situations face a number of ethical concerns. For example, has the deceased consented to have his sperm used for reproduction after he’s gone? Could just anybody request to obtain his sperm? Is it in the best interest of the child to be brought into the world without having a father?

What everyone seems to agree on is that the man’s wishes should be clear. "The core principle is not to reproduce anyone without their permission"

Some institutions follow this principle strictly, and require written, informed consent from the deceased before they will retrieve sperm cells

Caplan noted that there are also ethical concerns that come with denying a request for PMSR. For example, "it would be limiting family wishes to continue their lineage, and the concern that outsiders should not determine who can reproduce," he said.

PMSR is currently illegal in France, Germany, Sweden and other countries, even with written consent from the deceased. In the United Kingdom, it can be done if there is written consent, and in Israel, the sperm can be retrieved, but then a judge has to decide whether it can be used.