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Our son died. Now we can use his sperm to have a grandchild

An Indian court has cleared the way for a couple to use their dead son's frozen sperm.

Ms Kaur and her husband Gurvinder Singh petitioned the court after Delhi’s Ganga Ram Hospital in December 2020 refused to release their son’s semen which was stored in their fertility lab. The practice is prohibited in a number of countries such as Italy, Sweden, Switzerland, France, Malaysia, Pakistan, Hungary and Slovenia, while most of India’s South Asian neighbours - Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh - have no guidelines. The authorities also pointed out that Preet Inder was unmarried - India’s Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) Act 2021 bars single people from having children via surrogacy - and that he had not left any written or oral consent for the use of his frozen sperm so his parents did not have an automatic right to use it.

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