The 36-year-old women’s rights activist and writer first approached the hospital to freeze her eggs in 2018 after she broke up with her then-boyfriend, spurred by the realization that despite being unmarried and not wanting to put her career on hold, she wanted to have children someday. Instead, doctors urged Xu to marry and get pregnant sooner rather than later, as Chinese law allows only married couples to undergo the procedure of egg freezing.
fredag 16. august 2024
Why China Won’t Allow Single Women to Freeze Their Eggs
Last week, Xu Zaozao, also known as Teresa Xu, received the final verdictfor a lawsuit she filed in 2019 against an obstetrics hospital that denied her access to egg-freezing services. Rejecting Xu's third appeal on Aug. 7, the Third Intermediate People's Court in Beijing sided with the hospital, saying it did not violate her rights by doing so. For the claimant, the outcome of a six-year battle for reproductive rights came as no surprise. “I was mentally prepared for it,” she said in a live stream on her social media account. “This result wasn’t all that unexpected.”
The 36-year-old women’s rights activist and writer first approached the hospital to freeze her eggs in 2018 after she broke up with her then-boyfriend, spurred by the realization that despite being unmarried and not wanting to put her career on hold, she wanted to have children someday. Instead, doctors urged Xu to marry and get pregnant sooner rather than later, as Chinese law allows only married couples to undergo the procedure of egg freezing.
The 36-year-old women’s rights activist and writer first approached the hospital to freeze her eggs in 2018 after she broke up with her then-boyfriend, spurred by the realization that despite being unmarried and not wanting to put her career on hold, she wanted to have children someday. Instead, doctors urged Xu to marry and get pregnant sooner rather than later, as Chinese law allows only married couples to undergo the procedure of egg freezing.
