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What Happens to People’s Donated Eggs and Sperm After They Die? | Ellen Trachman | TED

Today, there are many ways to conceive a child, thanks to assisted reproductive technologies like IVF and egg-freezing. But the law lags behind these advancements, says attorney Ellen Trachman, troubling parents-to-be with stranger-than-fiction mix-ups and baffling lawsuits. Trachman makes the case for legality to reflect the realities of reproductive innovation — and prompts you to…

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Today, there are many ways to conceive a child, thanks to assisted reproductive technologies like IVF and egg-freezing. But the law lags behind these advancements, says attorney Ellen Trachman, troubling parents-to-be with stranger-than-fiction mix-ups and baffling lawsuits. Trachman makes the case for legality to reflect the realities of reproductive innovation — and prompts you to reconsider what could happen to your own genetic material.

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81 Comments

  1. google Boy

    July 14, 2022 at 5:24 pm

    Is that the yolk is sperm of chicken?

  2. Caleb

    July 14, 2022 at 5:32 pm

    use em all baby lets go

  3. Game Plays

    July 14, 2022 at 5:35 pm

    Enriching Lifes.

  4. Prediction experts

    July 14, 2022 at 5:36 pm

    I am indian

  5. It's Me!

    July 14, 2022 at 5:36 pm

    Haven’t watched the vid yet, but I’m guessing they receive more rights than American women?

    • kyle riddle

      July 14, 2022 at 5:49 pm

      100% ignorant assumption.

    • It's Me!

      July 14, 2022 at 5:57 pm

      @kyle riddle Thanks for the hot take, Kyle!

    • Angrysnake321

      July 14, 2022 at 6:27 pm

      Seems they are treated as property?

  6. kathryn witte

    July 14, 2022 at 5:39 pm

    She has a REALLY dry mouth and her microphone is turned up to a super high sensitivity that I don’t want to hear. If she’d take a drink of water we couldn’t hear it to this extent.

    • Alice Miriah

      July 14, 2022 at 5:44 pm

      Interesting

    • Pacmon Kruz

      July 14, 2022 at 5:58 pm

      Out of the whole speech this is your concern?? … ppl

    • kathryn witte

      July 14, 2022 at 6:08 pm

      @Pacmon Kruz everything else has been said. I added something that hadn’t. Ppl

    • Pacmon Kruz

      July 14, 2022 at 6:45 pm

      @kathryn witte I guess adding judgment is a thing

    • kathryn witte

      July 14, 2022 at 11:04 pm

      @Pacmon Kruz as is yours. 😉

  7. Thankful Lally

    July 14, 2022 at 5:43 pm

    Thanks for sharing. Great.

  8. M

    July 14, 2022 at 5:47 pm

    This is one tedtalk I could live without

  9. Pacmon Kruz

    July 14, 2022 at 5:57 pm

    The law would keep up if the ones making these laws weren’t so outdated themselves , they need to have terms and keep track of the money they get , then Maybe the laws wouldn’t be such problems

  10. Akira Igarashi

    July 14, 2022 at 6:05 pm

    Damn that’s so troublesome. Clearer laws are definitely necessary.

    • Danielle Salvo

      July 14, 2022 at 6:16 pm

      R . 6

  11. KA-1

    July 14, 2022 at 6:07 pm

    What an excellent talk. She talks about something that is highly debatable and she doesn’t push her own views to the audience, but lets them decide their own opinion.

  12. Solitary Reaper

    July 14, 2022 at 6:23 pm

    why would you breed more suffering in the world by bringing unconsenting beings here?

  13. Different

    July 14, 2022 at 6:24 pm

    can’t imagine if your parents wanted a kid but got killed and you learn this and reach 18 and have the option to bring your brother/sister to life

    • Maria Leshchinskaya

      July 14, 2022 at 7:46 pm

      I can

    • Different

      July 14, 2022 at 8:10 pm

      @Maria Leshchinskaya wild isn’t it?

    • Maria Leshchinskaya

      July 14, 2022 at 8:12 pm

      @Different totally!

    • Wolfferoni

      July 15, 2022 at 1:05 am

      Right? Thinking about it though, there are pros and cons to both and I think I’d lean on the side of not doing it. It’ll be extremely difficult for an 18 year old to look after babies, near impossible if they’re a single parent. They would be giving up their entire life to care for these siblings. Kids don’t ask to be born so I’d rather err on the side of not doing it, especially if there aren’t adequate resources to care for them. That being said, perhaps my opinion would change if I had grown up alone, without parents or siblings.

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    July 14, 2022 at 7:04 pm

    I’m listening about donate eggplant 🍆🍞☕

  15. YoungMoneyFuture

    July 14, 2022 at 7:09 pm

    This world is killing innocent intelligent people with artificial and outdated laws and annoying BS! Happy people “FORCED” into depression by this lunatic world!

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    July 14, 2022 at 7:37 pm

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    July 14, 2022 at 8:12 pm

    Suppose human intuition gets jammed in all the complexity trying to think this one through to a moral consensus.. no easy right or wrong !

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    July 14, 2022 at 10:52 pm

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    July 14, 2022 at 11:09 pm

    This is what happens when humans step into the roles of nature.

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    July 15, 2022 at 12:28 am

    In the future, before people get married, should test DNA first, make sure we are not brothers and sisters 🤪

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      July 17, 2022 at 4:15 pm

      Yeah, maybe even test before their first kiss.😄

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    July 15, 2022 at 12:31 am

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    July 15, 2022 at 1:46 am

    Its a very good talk.
    Just questions.
    Doesn’t put her own opinion instead leaves the viewer to think

  26. L. E. Burchill

    July 15, 2022 at 1:54 am

    How do they expect an immature 18-year-old to raise a child? How do they expect the “adult” to provide for the child? This is crazy. And, if the embryo and sperm have a right to reproduce, who’s going to pay for the operation? Does the 18-year-old get government funding to produce their sister or brother?

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      July 18, 2022 at 5:53 pm

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    July 15, 2022 at 2:28 am

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    July 15, 2022 at 3:36 am

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  31. Faizan Babul

    July 15, 2022 at 7:09 am

    What was that laugh in around 7:50 minutes /:

  32. Freelancerthoughts

    July 15, 2022 at 9:58 am

    Amazing speech alot of learning
    Thanks 👍

  33. Jeremy Hofmann

    July 15, 2022 at 11:04 am

    They use them to make people who work at the puppy farm.

  34. Health And Medicine News

    July 15, 2022 at 6:33 pm

    very nice

  35. Health And Medicine News

    July 15, 2022 at 6:34 pm

    FANTASTIC ISSUE

  36. Vital Ral

    July 15, 2022 at 7:07 pm

    the thought of having kids I don’t know about blows my mind.
    I consider it very immoral.

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    July 16, 2022 at 5:27 am

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    July 16, 2022 at 4:52 pm

    bro wtf

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    July 16, 2022 at 7:46 pm

    Amazing

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    July 17, 2022 at 11:07 am

    -Topic
    – main ideas
    – explanation
    – examples
    Fantastic talk 👌

  42. Joseph Dillman

    July 17, 2022 at 12:42 pm

    Very interesting, but the rampant lipsmacking is so distracting to me.

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    July 17, 2022 at 3:53 pm

    7:53 i think this laugh is a first for TED

    • vhanvhan

      July 18, 2022 at 12:23 pm

      LMAO HAHHAA

  44. Melita King

    July 17, 2022 at 5:36 pm

    Good topic to think as a parent. The law is not the problem the media is a problem making people unrelated to written law. The embrios should be a subject to law after 24 weeks only and embrious should have residential status as parents. Hospitals medical companies who collect biological material I suggest should not have a say in a decision. The law might change too, never a guarantee what could happen . The best way is to stick to natural repriduction educate youth from early age how to reproduce biologically as our parents become our enemies at adult life more than spouses we divorce often. Biological matter has no relation to current inadequate politics of infertile men and women. My father had a will made which my prostitute mother ripped it off with the corrupted court which happens. We need present time reproduction.

  45. Waqas James

    July 18, 2022 at 5:50 pm

    Yor are good mam

  46. Waqas James

    July 18, 2022 at 5:51 pm

    Your voice is so good and u one of most good speecher

  47. Waqas James

    July 18, 2022 at 5:52 pm

    Alot of learning

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