Medical Issues: Can a Deceased Husband’s Sperm Be Used for IVF — and Does the Child Inherit?

Practical Laws of Islam as per the teachings of Imam Khamenei

Medical Issues: Can a Deceased Husband’s Sperm Be Used for IVF — and Does the Child Inherit?

English:

Question #1266:

Is it permissible to use the sperm of the husband, after his death, in fertilising an egg taken from his wife and implanted it inside her womb? Does the born child belong to the dead husband? And does the born child inherit from the father?

Answer #1266:

There is no harm in carrying out the procedure in itself. The born child belongs to the mother to whom the egg and the womb belong. It is not remote to attribute the baby to the husband. However, the baby does not inherit from him.

-Imam Khamenei, Practical Laws of Islam, Importance and Conditions of Medical Issues