No Cash for Kid Born from Dead Man’s Sperm
A mom who opted to have her husband’s sperm collected post-mortem won’t be getting any financial help from the government to raise her.
Gabriela Vernoff’s husband died in an accident in 1995, but she had his sperm extracted and frozen so she could have their baby four years later, in 1999. Now, ten years later, she’s been told she cannot collect Social Security benefits on the dead man’s child because she wasn’t a dependent during his life. Continue reading »
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