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Court Denies Couple Use of Dead Son's Sperm to Make Grandchild
Published January 14, 2015
A New York appeals court says a couple is not entitled to their dead son's frozen sperm so they can have a grandchild.
Mark Speranza left semen samples at a lab in 1997 but ordered them destroyed if he died. He wanted to father a child if he survived his battle with cancer. He died in January 1998.
Speranza's parents sought custody of the frozen sperm so a surrogate mother could be artificially inseminated.
A Manhattan judge said state law bars use of stored semen by a surrogate without blood tests from the father. The tests were impossible since Speranza was dead.
The Appellate Division agreed and upheld the judge's ruling on Tuesday.
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