Teresa Xu, who is unmarried, had wanted to preserve her eggs so she could have an option to bear children at a later date. But a Chinese court ruled against it.
said in a judgment that the hospital did not violate the woman’s rights in denying her access to freeze her eggs.In China, national law does not explicitly ban unmarried people from services like fertility treatments, and simply states that a “husband and wife” can have up to three children.
In practice, however, hospitals and other institutions implement the regulations in a way that requires people to show a marriage license. Unmarried women who choose to have children have struggled to access public benefits likeIn 2018, Xu, then 30 years old, had gone to Beijing Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital at Capital Medical University, a public hospital, to ask about freezing her eggs.
Xu, who is unmarried, had wanted to preserve her eggs so she could have an option to bear children at a later date. “I think this lost lawsuit, it’s not an attack on single women’s reproductive rights, maybe it’s a temporary setback,” she said in a short video statement announcing the news on herXu’s case drew broad coverage from domestic media outlets in China, including some state media outlets, when she first brought her case to court in 2019. Local media had said her case against the hospital was the country’s first.
The hospital also said that egg-freezing services were only available to women who could not get pregnant in the natural way, and not for healthy patients.“There will definitely be a day we will take back sovereignty over our own bodies,” she said.
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