From Death to Life: Ethical Issues in Postmortem Sperm Retrieval as a Source of New Life

AbstractThis paper examines and critiques the ethical issues in postmortem sperm retrieval and the use of postmortem sperm to create new life. The article was occasioned by the recent request of the parents of a West Point cadet who died in a skiing accident at the Academy to retrieve and use his sperm to honor his memory and perpetuate the family name. The request occasioned national media attention. A trial court judge in New York in a two-page order authorized both the retrieval and use of the postmortem sperm.

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Myths and Realities in the Search for Juvenile Justice: A Statement by The Honorable Justine Wise Polier

Harvard Educational Review ◽

10.17763/haer.44.1.wl7x38r71g160hv2 ◽

1974 ◽

Vol 44 (1) ◽

pp. 112-124 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Justine Wise Polier

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Juvenile Justice ◽

New York State ◽

Advisory Board ◽

Family Court ◽

New York School ◽

Court Judge ◽

The Family ◽

Crime And Delinquency ◽

The Right

The Honorable Justine Wise Polier retired from the bench of New York's Family Court in 1973 to head the Children's Defense Fund's program in juvenile justice,emphasizing the right to care and treatment. She has served as a judge since 1935. During those years, her work led her to become deeply involved in the lives of children in trouble. She has served as founder and president of the Wiltwyck School for Boys, member of the New York State Citizen's Committee for Children, the Mayor's Committee on Foster Care, the Advisory Board of the League School for Seriously Disturbed Children, the Board of the New York School for Nursery Years, the Policy Committee of the Office of Children's Services of the Judicial Conference, and the Judicial Advisory Committee on Crime and Delinquency, among others. Juvenile Justice Confounded was written under her chairwomanship of the Committee on Mental Health Services in the Family Court. Judge Polier is also the author of books and studies on the law and social welfare including Everyone's Children,Nobody's Child.

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Filled with Spirit and Power: Protestant Clergy in Politics. By Laura R. Olson. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000. 174p. $57.50 cloth, $18.95 paper.

American Political Science Review ◽

10.1017/s000305540136015x ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 95 (4) ◽

pp. 1005-1006

Author(s):

Paul J. Weber

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

African American ◽

Family Values ◽

State University ◽

Protestant Clergy ◽

African American Pastors ◽

The Family ◽

Limited Scope

Laura Olson is one of a small but energetic and influential group of Christian political scientists determined to bring the debate politically legitimate called it either racist or sexist. Yet, somewhat surprisingly, African American pastors held the most consistently conservative views on family values, although they also saw the connections among crime, violence, and the deterioration of the family. Within the authorÕs intentionally limited scope, this is an excellent study, but one should be cautious about generalizing.

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