Tampering in God's Domain Dept.

Extracting semen from a cadaver.

Woman Allowed to Have Dead Lover's Child: Associated Press

A New York judge has given a woman permission to harvest her dead lover's sperm so she can still have his baby.

Johnny Quintana was only 31 when he died Thursday of an apparent heart attack.

He had wanted to have a second child with his fiancee, Gisela Marrero, but the only way to make it happen was to quickly collect his sperm, which stays fresh for only 36 hours after death.

A court order was needed because Quintana and Marrero were not yet married.

The Bronx judge said "yes" Friday with only four hours left until the deadline.

Sperm bank staffers then rushed to Jacobi Medical Center, where Quintana's body lay.

Marrero already has a 2-year-old son with Quintana.

This is wrong on so many levels. It is basically an injustice to the child who may be born in this process to have be deprived of a father. This assumes a likely scenario where Gisela Marrero will continue to choose not to be married.

Can me skeptical but I doubt that he made an explicit desire to become a posthumous father.

There's a disturbing aspect to this about a girlfriend having marital rights in some areas but not others. The state and city denied survivors pensions to all the girlfriends/boyfriends of the police and fire employees killed in the terrorist attacks on 9/11 for example.

It's like judge-supervised lottery.