Laws Around Dead Teen’s Sperm Use

December 23, 2014

(Stuff.co.nz) – Groundbreaking medical ethics debate could determine whether a brave and inspiring Auckland teenager can father a child – even though he died 11 years ago. Promising young film-maker Cameron Duncan banked sperm at age 15 before starting chemotherapy in 2002 for bone cancer in his left femur. Knowing the chemotherapy might destroy his fertility, he wanted to preserve the chance of having children in the future.