Republicans say it is “shameful” that the Obama administration helped a Cuban spy artificially inseminate his wife and “become a father” while he was locked up in a U.S. prison.
The Cuban spy, Gerardo Hernandez, was at the center of the Obama administration’s bid to normalize relations with Cuba.
As part of the the negotiations, U.S. officials collected Hernandez’s sperm and sent it to Havana for his wife, who used it to get pregnant.
{mossecondads}Hernandez, who was serving two life sentences for conspiring with the Cuban government to shoot down planes carrying American humanitarian workers, was released along with two other Cuban spies in a deal that freed American aid worker Alan Gross.
In a letter to Federal Bureau of Prisons Director Charles Samuels Jr., House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) said they were “dismayed and outraged” that the Obama administration would go to such lengths to help a convicted spy start a family.
“It is shameful that, in doing so, the Obama administration overlooked the sad and grim reality that, because of Hernandez’s actions, some of (his) victims were prevented from having families of their own,” the lawmakers wrote.
“Hernandez’s actions robbed three American families of their futures and the Department of Justice and the administration rewarded his taking of life by proactively intervening to help him become a father,” they added.