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Parents can use sperm harvested from their dead son to make grandchildren, judge rules

West Point Cadet Peter Zhu who died on Feb. 28, 2019 [Photo courtesy ]

A New York judge has ruled that the parents of a 21-year-old cadet from the U.S. Military Academy can use their dead son’s frozen sperm to produce a child.

West Point cadet Peter Zhu, who was unmarried, died after a skiing accident on February 23.

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