Reuters, BEIJINGAn unmarried Chinese woman yesterday 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. Through a medical procedure, a woman’s eggs can be removed from her ovaries and frozen for use at a later time. Xu, from Heilongjiang Province, said on her first visit to the hospital for a checkup, the doctor asked about her marital status and urged her to have a child now instead of freezing her eggs. “This is a systemic issue, because the system has brought this difficult position for single women,” Xu said. The women’s bathroom door at the hospital was filled with these ads, but ultimately she decided against it, Xu said.

Source: Taipei Times December 23, 2019 15:56 UTC