The following report is by The Jerusalem Post, first published on February 8th:
Sperm has been recovered from the bodies of 91 fallen soldiers since the beginning of the ground operation in Gaza, according to part of a report from the Knesset’s health committee on Wednesday.
According to the Health Ministry, since October 7, there have been a total of 120 successful sperm preservation cases, of which 110 involved soldiers. The committee also claims that 82 of these cases were carried out at the request of the parents.
Ninety-one of these cases are from the start of the ground operation alone.
The successful extraction and preservation do not necessarily mean that the sperm can be used, however.
The Knesset’s health committee discussed the law on using the sperm of a deceased person, with Wednesday being the 12th session on this topic.
According to the chairman of the committee, MK Merav Ben Ari from the Yesh Atid party, the law is ready for the first reading, but there are religious disputes that must be discussed before the second and third reading discussions.
“The delays for approval in the first reading are only due to religious issues, and it is now awaiting the chief rabbi’s decision and discretion,” she explained. “The pending issue is the requirement that the spouse approve the taking of the sperm – after death. Such a requirement will impede the current situation.”
A few days after the October 7 massacre, the Health Ministry authorized hospitals to extract sperm from a deceased man for future fertilization purposes, including at the request of his parents, and not just at the request of his partner, while also preventing cases of taking the parents of the deceased to court.
In November, the health committee submitted a bill that would regulate the use of the sperm of a deceased person for procreation purposes in primary legislation.
Certain Stipulations Regarding Use Of Deceased’s Sperm
The proposed bill would allow the spouse of a deceased person to use his sperm after his passing, even if he did not leave behind explicit instructions on the matter, on the assumption that he would have wanted the continuity of the family he established, and taking into account his spouse’s right to parenthood.
In the event that the partner does not want to use the sperm or the deceased does not have a partner, the proposed law would also allow the parents of the deceased to use the sperm with another woman. This would require approval from the court on a case-by-case basis, and the woman would be considered the legal parent of the child.
Within the framework of the law, the date of collecting the sperm from the deceased cannot precede the date of the determination of death, and no sperm will be taken from the deceased if more than 48 hours have passed from the date of determination of cardiorespiratory death.
Additionally, the director of the hospital’s sperm bank will not approve the extraction of sperm from a man who has not yet turned 18 years old, unless he was a soldier.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
This is just terrible. I mean, I’m not even sure how exactly this is to be categorized as. Perhaps a form of necrophilia?
Accompanying this, other scientists have looked into using “brain-dead” women as surrogate mothers. In other words, the woman is alive but her brain stem is not working making her no longer cognitive and spatially aware. The concept was imagined by a Jewish doctor.
Alliance VITA wrote in 2023:
Anna Smajdor has proposed the use of “brain-dead” women as surrogate mothers.
This controversy is part of an article titled “Whole body gestational donation” –– published in the Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics journal and written by Dr Anna Smajdor, a professor at Oslo University. She is studying the idea proposed in 2000 by Rosalie Ber, an Israeli doctor. What exactly was proposed? No less than the use of the bodies of women in a persistent vegetative state or so-called “brain-dead” to bear and give birth to children… If beforehand they have provided their consent…
You can read a criticism of this concept in the journal Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics.
Jeremiah 18:11 Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return ye now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good. [12] And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart. [13] Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ask ye now among the heathen, who hath heard such things: the virgin of Israel hath done a very horrible thing.
Jeremiah 18:11-13
And hence, this is why the nation of Israel is under God’s severe judgment and punishment, and it will all come to a head during the time of Jacob’s trouble (see Jeremiah 30); though I have said that you should expect a lot of Israelis to die before this time begins…
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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“Perhaps a form of necrophilia?” Yes, it absolutely is. That, and desecration of the dead.
Listen, if God wanted a certain couple to make a baby while they both lived, He would have done so. The sheer fact it didn’t happen meant it wasn’t supposed to be. I realize couples have gone to sperm banks or turned to a surrogate when one of the parties is not fertile, to have a child and that too, is refusing to accept The Lord’s Will for them. It’s not easy to accept these situations, but God has His reasons. There are plenty of couples who’ve had to accept the fact that children were not in their future. Finding a work around should not be, dead or alive.
To anyone reading this that didn’t accept God’s Will for no children and took an alternate route to get what they wanted, remember – I’m stating my feelings in general and am not attacking you personally. I’m just saying that if God didn’t naturally bless you with child, He felt that was what was best for you.
Absolutely despicable, who in their right mind would think up this stupid idea?! Yes I know, wicked people, but seriously. What does a lab tech do, when his boss says, we need to harvest “stuff” from these dead solders? real answer should be; are ya outa of your everlivin mind.
Is there anything that these people won’t do?
The Lord is up in Heaven, and is in a “slow burn” watchin His chosen, walkin to the end of the gangplank over the pit.
Their time is runnin out, my advise is to get right with Jesus Christ as their Messiah, unless ya prefer bein on fire for ever.