![]() ![]() ![]() But after an initial check-up, she was told she could not proceed without a marriage certificate.Īccording to the judgment she received last year, the hospital argued that egg freezing poses certain health risks. In 2018, Xu, then 30 years old, had gone to a public hospital in Beijing to ask about freezing her eggs. Nigerian doctors begin 5-day strike, leaving many without health care But hospitals and other institutions, in practice, implement the regulations in a way that requires people to present a marriage license. ![]() In China, the 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. The upcoming judgment will have strong implications for the lives of many unmarried women in China and the country’s demographic changes, especially after the world’s second-largest economy recorded its first population decline in decades. She lost her legal challenge last year at another Beijing court, which ruled the hospital did not violate the woman’s rights in its decision. Teresa Xu’s case has drawn broad coverage in China, including by some state media outlets, since she first brought her case to court in 2019. BEIJING (AP) - An unmarried Chinese woman on Tuesday began her final appeal of a hospital’s denial of access to freeze her eggs five years ago in a landmark case of female reproductive rights in the country. ![]()
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