Word: parpalaix
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most striking illustration of Europe's legal confusion is the case of Corinne Parpalaix, 22, a secretary in the Marseille police department, whose husband died of cancer last year after depositing sperm in a sperm bank. Parpalaix asked for the sperm so that she could be impregnated with it, but the bank refused on the grounds that the dead man had left no instructions on what he wanted done. The press clucked; the church frowned; Parpalaix sued...
...part of the dead man's body, even though separated from that body. The dead man had a basic right to "physical integrity," the prosecutor concluded, saying in effect that his widow had no more right to his sperm than to his feet or ears. Not so, retorted Parpalaix's lawyer. The deposited sperm, he argued, - implied a contract. Somewhat to the surprise of legal experts, the court last month agreed, ruling that this "secretion containing the seeds of life" should be given to Parpalaix. "I'll call him Thomas," she said of her prospective infant...
...happiest woman in the world," declared Corinne Parpalaix, 22, last week after a civil court in the Paris suburb of Créteil awarded her possession of frozen sperm left in a sperm bank by her late husband Alain. In 1981 he deposited his sperm after learning that treatment for his testicular cancer could leave him sterile. He died last Christmas, two days after he and Corinne were married in a hospital ceremony. In February the young widow tried to recover the sperm from the bank in order to conceive her dead husband's child. The bank refused...
Partly because of the Parpalaix case, the French government has proposed legislation governing the operation of sperm banks that would avoid similar cases in the future. But the new laws would not help Parpalaix in one respect: should she succeed in becoming pregnant, she will run into the Napoleonic Code of 1804. It states that any child born more than 300 days after the putative father's death is not considered a legitimate heir...
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