PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Guido Pennings TI - Balancing rules in postmortem sperm donation AID - 10.1136/medethics-2020-107075 DP - 2022 Apr 01 TA - Journal of Medical Ethics PG - 270--271 VI - 48 IP - 4 4099 - http://jme.bmj.com/content/48/4/270.short 4100 - http://jme.bmj.com/content/48/4/270.full SO - J Med Ethics2022 Apr 01; 48 AB - Postmortem sperm donation implies the acceptance of a very low sperm quality threshold. This threshold has two important consequences: recipients will have to submit to burdensome and expensive in vitro fertilisation/intracytoplasmic sperm injection, and many more living donors will be accepted, thus making postmortem donors largely superfluous. Given these strong arguments against the use of postmortem collected sperm, a good alternative to enlarge the donor pool would be men who stored sperm for self-use and no longer have the intention to use it.