Surrogacy and Egg Donation Lawyer & Attorney : Theresa Erickson : Erickson Law Firm : Practicing Reproductive and Gestational Carrier Law

Before David Goodack underwent cancer treatment at age 20, nobody suggested he preserve a sample of his sperm. Mr. Goodack himself didn’t think of it, even though his physician warned that the necessary surgery could render him infertile — as it did. “I was just thinking about surviving,” says Mr. Goodack, a Kansas City, Mo., press foreman, now 44 and childless.

Since Mr. Goodack’s surgery, hundreds of thousands of babies have been conceived with preserved samples of sperm. Yet a September article in the journal Cancer found that during the decade ended in 2005, only 18% of 821 young, male cancer patients had chosen to freeze samples of their sperm before undergoing treatment. Experts say the problem is that amid the terror of a cancer diagnosis, the only immediate concern too often is survival. At a time when survival is more the rule than the exception for young cancer patients, child-bearing options are an unnecessary casualty of treatment.

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The final chapter for the Romans has occurred as the State Supreme Court has refused to grant a rehearing in this case,  See a copy of a press release that I had written several months ago setting forth all of the details of this case below.  I have heard that Mrs. Roman intends to take this to the US Supreme Court; however, it would be surprising to see that, as this has primarily been handled on the state level. 

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