Heterogeneous Insemination and Kinship Relationship with the Children of Infertile Couples in Islamic Jurisprudence

There are men who are unable to make their wives pregnant due to lack of sperms, scantiness of sperms or lack of sufficient motile sperms. Heterogeneous insemination is a method by which such families could be able to have children. One of the questions raised about the use of this method is the quality of the child’s relation to the donor of sperm and to the infertile men and his wife. According to the principles and rules of Islamic jurisprudence, as a result, the child who is born by heterogeneous insemination has only relation with the donor of sperm and the woman contributing her egg and is eligible for all father-child and mother-child rights and responsibilities. These children have no relation with the infertile men.