Im thinking that this is something that males are going to ahve to be very careful of and perhaps start listing in their Wills.

What a can of worms this decision has opened. Do hope all will turn out well, but she will still be an unmarried mother who has to explain why to her child.

This is tricky and I feel for the girlfriend but not sure with the ethics.

She must really want to have his child. I don’t know how he died but why was his sperm harvested after he died? I hope everything works out for her anyway

I think that this is lovely. She will always have a piece of him and what does it hurt now that he is gone? The article says boyfriend – this could mean de facto and it also doesn’t say how long they were together. These days marriage doesn’t really make an awful lot of difference legally.

Wow, I think this has really opened up a can of worms. If the couple were married, maybe. If the sperm was already harvested and in a lab somewhere, maybe. I understand wanting desperately to have a child with the man you love, having been told we would NEVER have children due to low sperm, only to finally give birth to our son after 2.5 years of IVF. However, we were in a committed relationship and had been married for 10 years by the time our son was born. I think this situation now opens itself up to a minefield of requests. It’s a sad story, and this girl has obviously been grieving, but she also has her life ahead of her that may involve another partner and the opportunity to have a child with them. This can obviously still happen, even with a child to her dead partner but… it’s just a tricky situation.

I think it is strange she got the sperm harvested within hours of him dying (suicide so no planning there). Who would think of that?

How sad. I’m glad the court granted her this. Wish her all the best with what life brings her.

Hope it all works out well.

Two years is a long battle. She must really want his baby.

Good luck and wishing her all the best

Good luck to her and their future offspring!

The sperm was taken without the young man’s consent. It would have been different if his sperm had been collected and frozen when he was still alive with the intent of impregnating his partner as has sometimes happened in the case of illness.

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  • • cherz replied
    • 22 Jun 2018 , 3:27 pm

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  I tend to agree with you mom160421. Also am a fair bit confused who the harvesting was aloud in the first place?

Good decision. When there is one who has the right on his harvested sperm, she is indeed.

Depends on the full facts of the story! Assuming she’s not completely insane or lying then I see no harm.

I’m on the fence for this one, I really don’t know about it.

I find this a little disturbing, to tell you the truth. But probably you need to be in the same situation to see what you’d want to do. I’m not sure I would like to grow up a child alone.

I don’t see an issue with this if they were in a long term relationship.

Why’ve would his semen be harvested after his death if it wasn’t to be used to impregnate someone?! Maybe a bit unhealthy for this woman to be hanging onto her dead boyfriends memory though

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  • • becstalou replied
    • 20 Jun 2018 , 8:33 pm

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  We might need to be putting this information in our wills in future to make the whole process easier.