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In-Vitro Immortality
Marissa Evans' 21-year old son Nikolas died Sunday in a Texas hospital after sustaining head trauma in an attack at a bar two weeks earlier. While Nikolas remained unconscious and on life support after the incident, his mother made the decision not only to donate his organs, but to collect his sperm.
Evans said in an interview with Matt Lauer that her son wanted to have kids some day. "His first choice would not be to have children like this. He would want to raise his children, but the bottom line is he can't. Somebody took that opportunity away from him. As the mother to a son I knew so well, I feel he would have wanted me to do this," Marissa said.
The state of Texas so far has maintained that Evans has the right to harvest her son's sperm and her attorney indicates that he does not anticipate roadblocks on Evan's quest to grandmotherhood.
In seeking a sort of immortality for her son, Evans hopes to heal her heartache. "I want him to live on. I want to keep a piece of him," she said to the Austin American-Statesmen.
Cases like Evans' and "Octomom" Nadya Suleman's bring up many questions about the ethics of creating life. What are babies for? And what do we as individuals and a society owe these laboratory-created souls?
Elizabeth Tenety
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Posted by: spidermean2 | April 14, 2009 7:46 PM
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The baby has a right too. Does the baby want to live a life without a father and a mother? Will her "grandma" live long enough to care for the baby? I think the woman is driven by selffishness. I can only imagine the emotional trauma the kid will go through. Nature was NOT designed that way because it's NOT proper. It's not a toy that she can tinker on.
Posted by: spidermean2 | April 14, 2009 7:47 PM
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So, is the plan to hire a surrogate and for Marissa Evans to raise the child? This is a very fringe case and trying to derive general rules from outlier situations can make bad law .
Posted by: edbyronadams | April 15, 2009 9:02 AM
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The baby has a right to. Does the baby want to live a life without a father and a mother? Will her "grandma" live long enough to care for the baby? I think the woman is driven by selffishness. I can only imagine the emotional trauma the kid will go through. Nature was NOT designed that way because it's NOT proper. It's not a toy that she can tinker on.