Unique baby born in Russia without a mother and two years after father’s death

These questions are dealt with differently around the world, according to the biomedical and religious environment in various countries. Catholics have a very harsh view on this issue: in Italy, for example, in vitro fertilization is prohibited, which gives rise to so-called reproductive tourism, with Italian women besieging Moscow clinics (of which there are now fifteen). In Australia the same ban has been imposed in several states. In Great Britain cryopreservation is allowed, but it is forbidden to carry out in vitro fertilization on the territory of the country. The most delicate issue concerns post-human reproduction. In Germany this is entirely forbidden. In the USA a donor must give his definitive permission, either in his will or aurally in the presence of many witnesses, and at least a year of mourning must pass before the procedure may be carried out. In Israel a court gives permission for this kind of operation.

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The case of the first Russian baby to come into the world after the death of its father will now be decided by the court of Upper Pyshma on the outskirts of Ekaterinburg. “I think that the court will reach a positive decision concerning the adoption,” says Liliya Shakurova, a specialist in the custodial department. But for the time being little Gosha remains without an official name, patronymic, and a grandmother.

Kseniya Dubicheva for Trud

Translated by James Platt

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