Issues of the post-mortem baby
Haaretz.com
A court in Israel rejected a family’s request to fertilize the eggs of their daughter who was reportedly brain dead when her eggs were extracted from her body. Seventeen year old Chen (Hen) Aida Ayish, was declared brain dead as a result of injuries she sustained in a car crash last week.
In a ruling which many believe set worldwide precedence, the court gave Chen’s family permission to extract and donate Chen’s organs, and harvest and store her eggs, but stopped short of granting their request to fertilize Chen’s eggs with sperm taken from another dead body. It was reported that the Court denied the parent’s request to fertilize the eggs because the parents could not show that Chen had ever expressed intent to have a child.