Category Archives: Wills and Inheritance
Creating New Life from the Dead by Biological Will™
The child of the IDF solider Keivan Cohen, shot dead in Gaza in 2002, was born eleven years after his death.
להמשך קריאה The Biological Will™ – a New Paradigm in ART?
Irit Rosenblum, Founder and Executive Director, New Family Organization, Tel Aviv, Israel SUMMARY Assisted reproductive technologies (ART) are constantly sophisticating, opening up infinite reproductive possibilities and biological and social parenting constellations. The Biological Will™ is an innovative solution to the legal and moral quandaries presented by new ART. The Biological Will™ is legal testament that […]
להמשך קריאה Biological Will™ Presentation at Urology Symposium
Presentation made at the The Friends of Israel – Urology Symposium (FOIU), Tel Aviv, Israel, July 3-5, 2012.
להמשך קריאה Respect the dead by creating new life
Published on Haaretz, by Irit Rosenblum In 2001, I proposed the formation of a sperm bank for IDF soldiers, which would offer soldiers the chance to store sperm for use the event of their death or loss of reproductive ability. My defining experience was meeting a handsome, grief-stricken young man. Shortly after enlistment into the […]
להמשך קריאה First Israeli Baby Born From Mother’s Frozen Embryos
New Family’s Biological Will Initiative enabled the birth of the first Israeli to be born from his deceased mothers frozen embryos and carried by a surrogate mother. The family celebrated the baby’s Brit Milah (ritual circumcision) in New York on Monday, when he was given the name his parents chose for him. “I’m happy that […]
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Memorial Day 2011: 54% of the Public Would Consider Freezing Sperm or Ova for Posthumous Use
54 percent of the Jewish public in Israel would positively consider freezing sperm or eggs for posthumous use, if they were in a life-threatening situation, according to a survey conducted for New Family Organization ahead of Memorial Day for Israeli Fallen Soldiers and Victims of Terrorism. The survey, conducted by Geocartography Institute among a representative […]
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Israeli court decides dead man’s sperm can be used after all