Where there’s a will…

July 2, 2007 - 8:03 AM by Liza

test tubes Apparently, where there’s a biological will, there’s a way, thanks to the efforts of an initiative by attorney Irit Rosenblum, head of the New Family Organization. According to this article, approximately 150 soldiers have decided to sign a biological will designed to pave the way for future use of their frozen sperm by their spouses. The driving force behind the initiative was last summer’s Second Lebanon War. During that time, Rosenblum began to receive calls from soldiers who, anxious over events they had seen while serving, wanted to ensure that they would still be able to have children, even if they themselves did not return from battle.

“We were sitting there, in the tank, and one of my friends found out he just lost his brother,” said A, a 31-year-old reservist in the Armor Corps.

“That made me realize I might not make it back. I heard about the biological will, talked it over with my wife and she urged me to do it,” he added.

The cost of the procedure is approximately $470, and it costs an additional $165 per year to store the sperm.

The article also mentions that “Some soldiers, who currently do not have significant others, have their parents down as executors of their will, allowing them to choose if the sperm is to be used to impregnate a surrogate.” Hopefully, the living will can alleviate the need for court cases such as this one, where it took four years for bereaved parents to receive authorization from the courts to use their slain son’s sperm in order to carry out his wishes to have a child.

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