Calls grow for end to ban that means only married Chinese couples can access ‘social egg freezing’ services
When Yang Li* turned 30, she gave herself three years to decide whether or not she wanted to have children. But as the years ticked by, working a busy job in Beijing, Yang felt none the wiser about if or when she wanted to become a mother. So last year, a month shy of her 34th birthday, she decided to freeze her eggs.
The problem was, as a single woman in China, no fertility clinic would help her. Despite China’s push to boost the birthrate, only married couples with fertility problems can use egg-freezing services or any kind of assisted reproductive technologies.
Watch Guardian documentary Frozen in Time where single women Lei and Abu are banned from freezing their eggs in China, so travel to the US to pursue their dreams of motherhood.
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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/17/single-women-china-egg-freezing-ban
Author : Amy Hawkins Senior China correspondent
Publish date : 2024-07-17 09:40:00
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