This seems like a really good use of US taxpayer money.
I mean, I know people keep saying something is happening at the border or whatever, but we can get to that later. The immediate problem facing the American people is inseminating Ukraine women with the frozen seed of dead soldiers.
CNN:
When Natalia Kyrkach-Antonenko’s husband Vitalii was killed on the frontlines fighting Russia, she was 13 weeks pregnant with their daughter, Vitalina.
Despite his death, Kyrkach-Antonenko found some new meaning, hope and purpose with the birth of their child.
“My child is my whole life now. By taking care of my daughter, in a sense, I continue to take care of my husband. This is his continuation. Our continuation.”
The couple had always planned to have a large family, even after Vitalii joined the army in the run-up to Putin’s 2022 invasion.
Vitalii and Natalia
After having a pregnancy that failed to develop in the opening days of the war – which she attributes to the stress of the invasion – Kyrkach-Antonenko and her husband decided to freeze his sperm. In his brief interludes away from the frontline, she ended up falling pregnant with Vitalina before they eventually managed the cryofreezing.
After his death in November 2022, Kyrkach-Antonenko didn’t hesitate to pursue using her husband’s frozen sperm for a further child.
She was shocked to discover that legally she wasn’t allowed to use the sperm after her husband’s death, despite having his written permission.
That should soon change.
The Ukrainian parliament passed legislation in February to allow and fund the use of soldiers’ frozen sperm in case of their death. Once President Volodymyr Zelensky signs the bill into law, it will for the first time allow the widows of Ukrainian soldiers to use their dead partners’ reproductive cells – both sperm and eggs – to have children.
It will also enable wounded soldiers to use their preserved reproductive cells to have children where their injuries would normally make that impossible.
Additionally, the state will pay to store these frozen cells for three years after a male or female soldier’s death, with clauses specifically recognizing the deceased biological parent on the child’s birth certificate. Currently, the government will pay for the initial freezing of reproductive cells.
What a touching tale.
Zelensky will cease to consider the United States a strategic partner of Ukraine if Congress does not agree on the allocation of new aid to them.
That would show ’em! pic.twitter.com/zq3sOAZt49
— Mats Nilsson (@mazzenilsson) February 18, 2024