A Chinese unmarried woman has recently been sentenced to a court case against a Beijing hospital seeking protection of egg freezing rights, and the woman has lost the case.
The lawsuit was filed by Teresa Shu, now 34, who claimed that the hospital's refusal to freeze eggs because she was single was an infringement. It is unusual for a woman to file a lawsuit in China seeking protection for her pregnancy and childbirth rights.
Shu consulted at the Beijing Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital in 2018 that he would like to freeze the eggs in order to concentrate on his career for the time being. However, her doctor asked if she had a spouse and she responded that she should have children sooner than freezing the eggs. She was also denied freezing eggs on her second visit.
In China, it is difficult for healthy women to receive assisted reproductive technology to delay childbirth. National regulations allow the use of such techniques for medical purposes such as the treatment of infertility.
The People's Court of Chaoyang District, Beijing said in a ruling last week that while there was no clear law on the specific application of assisted reproductive technology, it must be provided for medical purposes. Reuters obtained a copy of the sentence and confirmed it to be genuine.
Shu intends to appeal the ruling as "indignant." However, in a video she posted on WeChat, she emphasized that she was a "temporary setback" and she believed that Chinese single women's rights to pregnancy and childbirth would improve and move forward.
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