Judge OKs collecting of dead son's sperm

Submitted by anthony on Thu, 2009-04-09 21:40

Story here. Excerpt:

'The mother of a 21-year-old assault victim who died of his injuries received permission Tuesday for his sperm to be collected post-mortem, giving her the chance to have a grandchild through a surrogate mother.

Travis County Probate Judge Guy Herman ordered the medical examiner's office to maintain the body of Nikolas Colton Evans until his sperm can be taken.

Herman also said officials at the office must provide access so an expert can take the specimen.

Herman issued the orders after an emergency hearing at the request of Marissa Evans, whose son died Sunday after being punched and falling during a March 27 assault on East Sixth Street.'

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I hope she does have a surrogate mother have the bastard and the surrogate decides to keep it and collects lots of child support from her.

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Submitted by Luek on Fri, 2009-04-10 04:14

I have heard cases like this before. What in the world are these people thinking?

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Submitted by Kris on Sat, 2009-04-11 01:20

This sounds to me like desecration of the dead.

This has got me thinking ... I am going to insert a clause in my will forbidding use of any body part, genetic material on my death except with the express permission of my brother (whom I trust), and on the sole condition that the recipient/beneficiary makes a generous donation to the men's rights movement.

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Submitted by BB on Mon, 2009-04-13 21:37

There's no other way to describe this ruling but as an unbelievable violation of a man's right to an intact body after death.

To take sperm from a dead man is a violation of his intimate regions, and quite frankly is not much different than necrophilia.

Evan AKA X-TRNL
Real Men Don't Take Abuse!

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Submitted by xtrnl on Tue, 2009-04-14 04:08

You know, every time I hear cases like this it is a MOTHER of a dead SON insisting on being a grandmother. You never hear about it with the genders switched around like a father wanting to be a grandfather or parents wanting to keep their 'dead' daughter on life support and impregnating her with a random sperm donor so she can carry their grandchild to term (I don't even know if that's possible).

I think there is something deeper psychologically to this. Perhaps (some) mothers have psychological need to feel that their male children are vital and fertile.

These women can be grandmothers. They can adopt, have foster children, they can get involved in the 'big sisters' or mentor programs.

Men should not have to put special clauses in their wills to NOT HAVE this done. Special clauses should be added if they DO WANT it done.

Can you imagine if the brother of the dead man went to the courts because he wanted to be an uncle, or a sister wanted to be an aunt?

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Submitted by Kris on Tue, 2009-04-14 18:45