Does the old couple ＂customize＂ their grandson to lead a dispute or be suspected of committing a crime？

　　Cctv newsThe only son was killed in a car accident, which made an old couple in Britain suffer from the pain of "losing their independence" To add to their pain, the son was not married and married when he died, and there was no successor to the family. In addition to grief, the old couple actually "customized" a grandson with the sperm of their dead son. At present, the IVF is 3 years old. Whether this practice is reasonable and legal has caused controversy in Britain.

　　The British Daily Mail No.9 quoted David Smout Ritchie, a doctor in an artificial insemination clinic in the United States, as saying that this news was reported. Smout Ritchie did not disclose the names of the couple, only that they came from a wealthy British family.

　　According to reports, the couple’s only son died in a car accident at the age of 26. He died unmarried and childless, and the body was discovered two days after the incident. Because sperm can still survive for up to 72 hours after death, a urologist took out sperm from their son’s body and immediately frozen it. About a year later, the frozen sperm was sent to Smout Ritchie’s artificial insemination clinic in California.

　　The clinic then used eggs donated by an American woman to produce fertilized eggs and implanted them into the uterus of a surrogate woman. In 2015, this "customized boy" was born in the United States. Now he is 3 years old and lives in the UK with his grandparents.

　　According to Smout Ritchie, it is rare to give birth to a child with the sperm of the deceased. He has made five similar attempts since he worked for about 20 years.

　　The deceased did not sign the consent form or was suspected of committing a crime.

　　However, the practice of "making grandchildren" with the sperm of a dead son has caused controversy in Britain. Allen Percy, former president of the British Reproductive Society, believes that if the deceased did not sign a consent form before his death, allowing others to collect, store and use his own sperm after his death, then the couple’s behavior may have constituted a crime. In addition, the British urologist responsible for sperm extraction and the relevant British institutions responsible for storing and sending frozen sperm samples are also suspected of committing crimes.

　　Others accused the old couple of being immoral. They said that the child was born an orphan without parents, and the birth of the child was just a little comfort to two grieving people. The couple’s approach was too selfish and arbitrary.

　　In this regard, Smout Ritchie said that the old couple stressed that their son likes children very much and they will do their best to provide the best care for them.