dead man float

I saw a headline a few days ago that struck me. It was something along the lines of a widow getting her spouses sperm frozen so "they" could have a baby. He was in Iraq and was killed, and she went through the court system to have his sperm retrieved before he was embalmed. The story mentioned that there was initially a conflict between the widow and the man's mother, but it has been resolved. There was a quote from the mother, saying that she knew he or they wanted to have a baby, so it was ok now.

It struck me because it seems like the line of respect for human life is continuing to get blurrier. What does it mean to make a baby? Or to have a baby? The last time I knew, one didn't have a baby after death, at least the conception doesn't take place after death. It is ever harder to have opinions that oppose the mainstream idea that whatever goes, and if someone wants something, they are certainly entitled to it. Doesn't this baby have the right to at least have the chance to have a dad in his life? How hard would it be to tell your child at some point in it's life that her father died when she was young, that she will never have the opportunity to meet him, to hear his voice and see his face, to understand who he is and what that means to her. Isn't that an intrinsic desire? Don't adopted children often times yearn to meet their birth parents, to know their roots and to talk face to face? So imagine telling that child that her father didn't die when she was young, he died before she was conceived! How is she going to feel about that? I don't know that intentionally denying a child a father is respecting the process of life. I am not saying where the line is, but a dead man "having a baby" may cross it.