“Something can be born out of everything – if you want it to,” said Iris Haim, whose hostage son Yotam was killed in Gaza. Those words are helping her find hope, as she seeks to use his sperm to have a grandchild.
Haim now faces an uphill battle to get approval to use his sperm to produce a grandchild. If she succeeds, her next challenge would be to find a woman to carry the child and raise it.
OK, that’s slightly less bad than the headline made it sound, but still
Not to give her advice but I think she’d have an easier time if she said she wanted an egg donor (so no inbreeding) but would carry the pregnancy herself. And obviously not wanting to raise the grandkid is insane.
The IDF conscripts women too, so maybe she could find a cadaver whose ovaries are still viable. Why should reproductive necromancy only benefit the patriarchy?
Yeah I wonder if you can harvest viable eggs from a corpse. I’ve been through egg retrieval myself and it’s a pretty involved process; you have to inject yourself with hormones to stimulate follicle growth and align things with your cycle. Compared to getting sperm which afaik just involves jacking off into a cup.
It’s a decent bit worse than how I read it because I assumed this was on behalf of a daughter-in-law, rather than hey ladies, would you be interested in my deceased son’s semen? You look like the kind of woman who my son would have loved to posthumously impregnate. No, it’s not what it sounds like at all - I already filled out all the paperwork to get the approval! All the legwork is already taken care of! All you need to do is conceive the child and raise it.
seriously, that is 100% how I took it and was dying inside, because purposely high kinship linebreeding to “keep the lineage pure” I’m pretty sure went out of fashion a few millenia ago and I was getting the impression this person saw the antagonists of the X-Files episode “Home” as aspirational.
OK, that’s slightly less bad than the headline made it sound, but still
Not to give her advice but I think she’d have an easier time if she said she wanted an egg donor (so no inbreeding) but would carry the pregnancy herself. And obviously not wanting to raise the grandkid is insane.
The IDF conscripts women too, so maybe she could find a cadaver whose ovaries are still viable. Why should reproductive necromancy only benefit the patriarchy?
Yeah I wonder if you can harvest viable eggs from a corpse. I’ve been through egg retrieval myself and it’s a pretty involved process; you have to inject yourself with hormones to stimulate follicle growth and align things with your cycle. Compared to getting sperm which afaik just involves jacking off into a cup.
SHE’S NOT EVEN GOING TO RAISE IT HERSELF???
It’s a decent bit worse than how I read it because I assumed this was on behalf of a daughter-in-law, rather than hey ladies, would you be interested in my deceased son’s semen? You look like the kind of woman who my son would have loved to posthumously impregnate. No, it’s not what it sounds like at all - I already filled out all the paperwork to get the approval! All the legwork is already taken care of! All you need to do is conceive the child and raise it.
Yeah, I was concerned this was going a different way but I wouldn’t have been surprised
OMG I see what you mean 😐
What a headline lol
seriously, that is 100% how I took it and was dying inside, because purposely high kinship linebreeding to “keep the lineage pure” I’m pretty sure went out of fashion a few millenia ago and I was getting the impression this person saw the antagonists of the X-Files episode “Home” as aspirational.