She wants to make use of dead son’s sperm to raise ‘replacement child’. Is this wrong? She wants to make use of dead son’s sperm to raise ‘replacement child’. Is this wrong? Nikolas Colton Evans had talked about how much he wanted to have a child, but the 21-year-old Dallas resident died in an accident. His mother is determined to harvest his son’s sperm, find a surrogate and one day, raise her son’s child. It’s a decision that ethicists say raises troubling questions; one called the potential offspring a “replacement child”. “That child’s biological father will be dead. The mother may be an egg donor, anonymous or gestational surrogate,” said Tom Mayo, director of Southern Methodist University’s Maguire Center for Ethics and Public Responsibility. “This is a tough way for a kid to come into the world. As the details emerge and the child learns more about his origins, I just wonder what the impact will be on a replacement child.” What do you think?
