Wives of Russian soldiers missing or killed in Ukraine sue clinics over IVF refusals...

Wives of Russian soldiers missing or killed in Ukraine are suing clinics over refusals to perform IVF

In at least eight regions of Russia, soldiers’ wives have gone to court to obtain permission to use the biomaterial of husbands fighting in or killed in Ukraine, reports Verstka.

Before the war, legislation did not define a procedure for “posthumous reproduction” — when a child can be born after one parent’s death using previously frozen biomaterial. Courts assess in each case whether the participant of the “special military operation” intended to have children after death.

“By submitting his reproductive material during the mobilization period to the Russian Armed Forces, Perfiliev A.A. could not but consider the possibility of death and intended its use not only during his lifetime,” argues the Sovetsky District Court of Ufa.

Authorities and public figures have repeatedly discussed IVF as a way to “boost demographics” amid soldiers’ deaths and to “preserve the memory of heroes”: a bill has already been introduced to provide free IVF for families of “SMO” veterans.

“He went there so we could afford IVF. You can’t earn that kind of money in our town,” says one of the soldiers’ wives, Margarita.

To learn whether families of contract soldiers and mobilized men can create precedents that change the system of “posthumous reproduction,” read Verstka’s article (with VPN):

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“Posthumous reproduction.” Wives of those killed in the “SMO” are denied IVF

IVF has to be obtained through the courts