[UA] It's the law.

[Greg Stolze]

I was listening to NPR, and somewhere in California is considering a law
that would define the property rights of children who were concieved after
the father's death.

This is not a hypothetical situation, of course, since sperm donation and
preservation is so much more prevalent than it was, say, sixty years ago
when it was IMPOSSIBLE.

They talked about a case in court right now where a girl was suing to get
her father's Social Security benefits even though she'd been conceived
something like thirty-one hours after he died in a car crash.  The mom
arranged to have sperm withdrawn from the corpse.

My reaction to this was threefold.

1) Eeeew!
2) I think she deserves the benefits.  They made a big difference to my
family when my dad died.
3) Who has "qualified to remove live sperm from a dead body" on his resume?

That's just the REAL LIFE stuff.  The UA ramifications?  My mind boggles.

-G.

P.S.  I got the proofs from the UA novel "Godwalker" and found a couple
errors I'd made.  On Wednesday they'll call me about having them corrected
and then I'm probably going to print 200 copies.  If those sell fast enough
(at around $11.00 each in the US, slightly more to ship overseas) I might
do another run of 200.  Once I sell out the bulk-printed version, I'm
contemplating shifting it to Cafe Press, but that will cost more to you
(I'd probably charge about $15.00 per copy there, with a lower per unit
profit) and it wouldn't be as nice.