Philosophy, Universiteit Gent, Gent, Belgium
J Med Ethics. 2022 Apr;48(4):270-271. doi: 10.1136/medethics-2020-107075. Epub 2021 Mar 24.
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.
死后捐精意味着接受非常低的精子质量阈值。这个阈值有两个重要的后果：接受者将不得不接受繁琐和昂贵的体外受精/胞浆内单精子注射，而且会接受更多的活体供者，从而使死后供者变得多余。考虑到这些强烈反对使用死后采集的精子的论点，扩大供者库的一个很好的替代方法是那些为自己储存精子而不再打算使用它的男性。
