BEIJING: Teresa Xu, an unmarried 35-year old Chinese woman, began her final appeal in a Beijing court on Tuesday (May 9), where she is suing a public hospital in the Chinese capital for violating her rights by refusing to freeze her eggs because she is unmarried. Xu, a freelance writer, first lodged the cl
BEIJING: Teresa Xu, an unmarried 35-year old Chinese woman, began her final appeal in a Beijing court on Tuesday , where she is suing a public hospital in the Chinese capital for violating her rights by refusing to freeze her eggs because she is unmarried.
Guangzhou-based Xu's appeal comes as authorities' attitudes to opening up reproductive technologies for unmarried women have begun to shift as they grapple to stem a decline in births after China posted its first population drop in six decades. "If I get the verdict I've been hoping for, I will act at once," Xu said, explaining that she would freeze her eggs at a Chinese public hospital as soon as possible.Concerned about China's rapid ageing, the government's political advisers proposed in March that single and unmarried women should have access to egg freezing and in-vitro fertilisation treatment, among other services.
Some private clinics in provinces such as in the southwestern Sichuan province have already begun permitting IVF due to falling births.
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