This post first appeared as «Israeli Court Allows Egg Extraction from Deceased Teenager» on The Shmooze blog of the Forward.В
For the first time in Israel, aВ court has ruledВ that the eggs of a deceased woman may be extracted and saved.The decision by the Kfar Sava Family Court this past Sunday was in relation to the case of the late Chen Aida Ayish, a 17-year-old from the Sharon region, who died of severe injuries sustained in a car crash.She was declared brain dead last Wednesday.
Ayish’s family agreed to have her organs harvested for transplant, and requested from the court that the eggs be extracted from her ovaries at the same time.The eggs were frozen, and the court has issued no further decision as to their possible future use.
The family had initially requested that the eggs be fertilized with sperm taken from another dead body, but the court rejected that request.Ayish’s parents have made no specific statement as to why they wanted their daughter’s eggs extracted, but it can be inferred that they may be hoping to produce a grandchild from them at some point.
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