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A member asked:

If inject dead sperm into cervix, can this situation cause pregnancy?

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Dr. James Ferguson answered

No: Dead sperm are not capable of making the journey up the female genital tract to the tubes where an egg would be fertilized, Dead means inactive/dead.

Dr Kwok and another doctor agreed

Answered 9/5/2020

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