Re: Taking a Trip to the Sperm Bank
oh the arguement for having married sperm/egg joining not unmarried is that all islamic inhertiance, marriage, etc laws and rules are based on marriage rules and father mother deignations…if the father or mother is unknown there is concern for future incest or future inheritance rights…
http://www.biol.tsukuba.ac.jp/~macer/EJ132/ej132l.htm
Sperm donor
In infertile couples whose cause of infertility relates to the husband’s condition of being azoospermic (no sperm) or other male factor infertility, an alternative approach would be to inseminate the man’s wife with the sperm from a donor. In this aspect, Islam prohibits the act of insemination between the egg of a woman and the sperm of another man who is not her lawful husband.
Yusuf Al-Qarawadi (1995) addressed the issue of using sperm donors to be classified as being the equal to committing adultery and is therefore is regarded as a grevious crime and a great sin. He also emphasises on the importance of safeguarding lineage in Islam. A former head of the Al-Azhar Mosque and University, Shaykh Mahmud Shaltut as cited by Abul Fadl Mohsin Ebrahim (1988) released a fatwa (religious decree) that condemns the act of donor sperm insemination and equates it to committing adultery.
Sperm cryopreservation
Cryopreservation involves freezing of semen using a cryoprotectant and storing it at very low temperatures for later use. This technique may be used for patients that have been diagnosed as having a disease where treatment from the disease may result in infertility. The sperm is processed and is kept and thawed at a later date and with the patient’s consent, is used to fertilise the oocyte from the wife. This technique is legal as long as the couple is still within the marriage contract, however, the storing of the husband’s sperm for the purpose of impregnating the wife in the event of his death is regarded as illegitimate as under Islamic law the event of death render’s the marriage union to be void (6). This is because Shariah laws takes into account of the rights of the child for it to be reared by two parents.