Ukrainian soldiers who have fallen in battle can have children
Ukrainian soldiers who have fallen in battle can have children after death, after a law was passed that allows the storage of sperm of members of the army.
This law comes after the case of a woman, Kyrkach-Antonenko, who, after the death of her partner in the war against Russia, was denied the possibility of using her late husband’s sperm in 2022.
She was surprised to discover that she was legally not allowed to use the sperm after her husband’s death, despite having his written permission.
But now, Ukrainian soldiers who have fallen in battle can have children after death, as Ukrainian lawmakers worked on a proposal.
The Ukrainian parliament passed legislation in February to allow and fund the use of soldiers’ frozen sperm in the event of death.
Once the bill is signed into law by President Volodymyr Zelensky, it will for the first time allow widows of Ukrainian soldiers to use their dead partners’ reproductive cells (both sperm and eggs) to have children.
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–Ukrainian soldiers who have fallen in battle can have children and women as well
This being so, the proposal includes women and men, something that is unprecedented and leaves the hope of giving life even after death.
In a country where war is leaving thousands of men and women dead, future plans for national reconstruction are vital.
It will also allow wounded soldiers to use their preserved reproductive cells to have children, where their injuries would normally make this impossible.
Ukrainian soldiers who have fallen in battle can have children, an option that will be funded as minimal payment for fighting for the homeland.
The state will pay to store these frozen cells for three years after a soldier’s death, with clauses specifically recognizing the deceased biological father on the child’s birth certificate.
Currently, the government will pay for the initial freezing of the reproductive cells.
–Cryopreservation in Ukraine–
Cryopreservation has been an “urgent but difficult issue,” said MP Olena Shulyak, co-author of the bill, in a post on Telegram.
Ukrainian soldiers fallen in battle can have children, and it means a law that is likely to benefit many and many.
Ukraine’s battlefield losses are a jealously guarded secret, but U.S. officials estimate that some 70,000 soldiers have been killed and nearly twice that many wounded.
This legislation may go some way toward providing a lifeline for families beyond the grave.
Kyrkach-Antonenko plans to use her husband’s sperm to have at least one more child: a playmate for Vitalina. That’s what her husband wanted, she said.
Protecting soldiers’ chances of having families has long been on the minds of some Ukrainians.
Iryna Feskova, a fertility doctor at the “SANA MED” reproductive center in Kharkov, has offered soldiers free free freezing and storage of reproductive cells since the first months of the full-scale Russian invasion in 2022.
On the other hand, there is a 20% increase in the number of women in the Ukrainian armed forces in military and civilian roles since the war with Russia began in the eastern Donbas region in 2014, according to the Personnel Center of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Thus, although it may seem insignificant, procreating after death is a fact of life and ensures the legacy of thousands of husbands and wives who have lost their lives on the battlefield against the Russians.
