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Can a dead person's sperm be used for getting pregnant?

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Sperm can live in the body for about 3-5 days. So there is really only about a week during which it's possible to become pregnant. (The trick of course is that few women are perfectly regular, so if you don't monitor your signals, you can't always know precisely when those 5-7 fertile days ARE. read more

However, sometimes, sperm may leak out before ejaculation and mix with the precum, increasing the likelihood of pregnancy. There's also the chance of sexually transmitted diseases being passed on through this bodily fluid. read more

Jenny Morber asked this for a piece in Mosaic about the legal and ethical precedent for using a dead man's sperm to make a baby. Turns out, there isn't much. The first baby created with post-mortem sperm was born in 1999. read more