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Reuters
Reuters
Health
By Martin Quin Pollard and Roxanne Liu

Chinese woman seeking to freeze her eggs loses court case

FILE PHOTO: Teresa Xu, 31, talks to a supporter outside Chaoyang People's Court before a court hearing of her suit against a Beijing hospital for rejecting her request to freeze her eggs as an unmarried woman, in Beijing, China December 23, 2019. REUTERS/Florence Lo

An unmarried woman in China has lost a court challenge seeking to freeze her eggs, highlighting concerns about a lack of technology options for Chinese people who consider delaying parenthood.

Teresa Xu, now 34, sued a Beijing hospital in December 2019, accusing it of violating her rights by refusing to freeze her eggs due to her marital status, in a landmark case of a Chinese woman fighting for her reproductive rights.

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