Is Interference with a Corpse for Procreative Purposes a Criminal Offence?

An increasing number of court orders from grieving women seek the retrieval sperm their deceased husbands, fiancés or boyfriends for purposes procreation. The legality gametes a dead body is unclear in United Kingdom, and other jurisdictions have similarly confusing jurisprudence on matter. Human Fertilisation Embryology Act 1990 requires informed consent both gamete providers before fertility treatment can commence, rendering act electro-ejaculation upon pointless (and potentially sexual) violation. This article takes unique look at posthumous its contradiction to our shared respect dead. It suggests that when carried out without lawful excuse, may offend public morality could constitute criminal offence ‘sexual penetration corpse’ under section 70 Sexual Offences 2003.