An unmarried Chinese woman filed a suit against a hospital on Monday 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. Teresa Xu, 31, visited the Beijing Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital at Capital Medical University in November 2018 wanting to freeze her eggs, while she focused on her career as a writer on gender issues. Through a medical procedure, a woman’s eggs can be removed from her ovaries and frozen for use at a later time. “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, Xu said, was filled with these ads.

Source: Punch December 23, 2019 06:33 UTC