In a Chinese legal first, a woman has sued a hospital for refusing her request to freeze her eggs because she was unmarried.
An unmarried Chinese woman has filed a suit against a hospital for rejecting her request to undergo a medical procedure to freeze her eggs due to her marital status, in China's first legal challenge of a woman fighting for her reproductive rights.
China's laws on human assisted reproduction state that only married couples can use such health services, and they must be able to prove their marital status by showing a marriage license. Teresa Xu, 31, visited the Beijing Obstetrics and Gynaecology Hospital at Capital Medical University in November 2018, wanting to freeze her eggs while she focused on her career as a writer on gender issues.
A woman's eggs deteriorate in quality as she ages, presenting obstacles to conception as time goes on.
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