Prof. Wolf Quoted in New York Times and Star Tribune on Posthumous Reproduction

Professor Susan Wolf was quoted in the New York Times and Star Tribune in an article on the problems raised by using the sperm, eggs, and embryos of deceased individuals to conceive. An individual with cancer, for example, may store gametes and then die, leaving a partner who wishes to use the gametes to reproduce. Cases have already arisen litigating the rights of these posthumously conceived children. Wolf notes that "Posthumous reproduction is the perfect storm of competing interests. There's the surviving partner who wants to reproduce, the interests of the deceased while they were alive or as they memorialized them, the pre-existing kids who don't want their interest diluted and finally the kids who are brought into the picture but who may be financially most at risk." Click here to read the NYT article, "Fertility Treatments Produce Heirs Their Parents Never Knew." Click here to read the Star Tribune article.