AFTER a four-year legal battle, a couple in India have welcomed a decision ordering a hospital to relinquish a frozen sperm sample of their deceased son so they can have a grandchild through a surrogate.
According to BBC News, the couple's 30-year-old son died from Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma in 2020 but asked for his semen to be frozen before he began chemotherapy.
In her ruling, Justice Prathiba Singh of the Delhi High Court said "under Indian law, there was no prohibition against posthumous reproduction" if the sperm owner had consented.
The couple have said they would raise any child born using their son's frozen sperm and in the event of their death, their two daughters would assume custody and responsibility.
While commercial surrogacy is illegal in India, another relative of the deceased man had agreed to be the surrogate.
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