Many young people are injured while serving in the army, which makes it impossible for them to have children. The main goal of the new My continuation project is to enable young people of military age to freeze sperm for free with intention to use it in the future to conceive a child.

With this project, young people will be able to freeze their sperm willingly before joining the army, the founder of the organization Diana Hovakimyan noted in an interview with NEWS.am Medicine. After returning, they can be tested, and if their fertility turns out to be not damaged, the frozen biological material can be removed from the base, while the young man can marry and conceive a child naturally, she said.

If they do have fertility problems, the frozen sperm can be used to conceive a child through insemination or IVF. If the soldier does not return home, his family may use his frozen sperm for a surrogate mother who will give birth to a child from their deceased son in order to continue his bloodline, Diana Hovakimyan added.

The frozen biological material may be also used by childless couples in need of sperm donation, she noted. There will be required considerable funding to analyse, deliver and store the frozen sperms, and the proponents of the initiative hope it will be possible to obtain it through charitable fundraising. They also hope the state will pay attention to this initiative as well, will support it possibly, referring to the general fund of the country.

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