RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Balancing rules in postmortem sperm donation
JF Journal of Medical Ethics
JO J Med Ethics
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Institute of Medical Ethics
SP 270
OP 271
DO 10.1136/medethics-2020-107075
VO 48
IS 4
A1 Guido Pennings
YR 2022
UL http://jme.bmj.com/content/48/4/270.abstract
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.