Cusine D J
J Med Ethics. 1977 Dec;3(4):163-5. doi: 10.1136/jme.3.4.163.
Artificial insemination using the husband's semen (AIH) has always seemed more acceptable than the same procedure using donor semen. However, the layman may not even have thought of the legal problems or the moral dilemma if in fact a woman is inseminated using her husband's frozen semen after his death. In the USA there are already sperm banks set up by private individuals, generally for the use of those marriage partners when the husband has had a vasectomy and afterwards a child is desired. If such private sperm banks were set up in Britain complex legal problems would follow, quite apart from the moral issue as to whether it was desirable to bring a child into the world deliberately having deprived him of a father from the start. These are the issues which Mr Cusine thinks should be carefully considered before doctors, lawyers and the women potentially concerned are confronted with a new dilemma.
使用丈夫的精液进行人工授精（AIH）似乎一直比使用供体精液进行同样的操作更容易被接受。然而，如果一名女性在其丈夫去世后使用其冷冻精液进行授精，外行人甚至可能没有想到其中的法律问题或道德困境。在美国，已经有私人设立的精子库，通常供那些丈夫做了输精管切除术且之后想要孩子的婚姻伴侣使用。如果在英国设立这样的私人精子库，将会引发复杂的法律问题，更不用说从一开始就故意让孩子失去父亲是否可取这一道德问题了。这些就是库辛先生认为在医生、律师以及可能涉及的女性面临新的困境之前应仔细考虑的问题。
