A 62-YEAR-OLD woman has been given permission by Western Australia's Supreme Court to remove sperm from her dead husband for possible use in posthumous fertilisation.
The woman had to make an urgent court application after the death of her 61-year-old husband late last year, The Guardian has reported.
Her husband's body was taken to Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, but the court heard the woman was forced to apply for an order after the hospital did not promptly make a "designated officer" available to handle her request for sperm to be removed from her husband's body and stored while it remained viable.
Testing of the man's sperm found it still remained viable.
In granting the application, judge Fiona Seaward allowed the woman to remove the sperm but not to use it, as it required a separate court order.
WA doesn't allow posthumous fertilisation, so the sperm will need to move to another state.
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