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Beijing court rejects lawsuit brought by Xu Zaozao, who was seeking to widen access to fertility treatment in China

A Chinese woman who filed a groundbreaking lawsuit to win the right to freeze her eggs has lost her final appeal, exhausting the legal avenues in her fight to widen access to fertility treatment in China.

Beijing No 3 intermediate people’s court ruled that Xu Zaozao’s rights had not been violated when Beijing obstetrics and gynaecology hospital refused to freeze her eggs in 2018. Chinese regulations stipulate that assisted reproductive technology is only for married couples with fertility issues. Xu, now 36, said the doctor gave her some friendly advice instead: hurry up, get married and have children now.

Instead, she sued the hospital. She argued that the denial of treatment violated her basic rights. On 6 August, nearly five years after she first filed her lawsuit, she lost her final appeal.

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[-] ravhall@discuss.online 57 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Chinese regulations stipulate that assisted reproductive technology is only for married couples with fertility issues

Where are you hexbears? I’d like you to defend China please

[-] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 32 points 1 month ago

lemmy.world is defederated from hexbear.net instance...

[-] Thrashy@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Alas, I was so looking forward to hearing them parrot the talking points of acclaimed Leninist... (checks notes) ... JD Vance.

[-] GBU_28@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago

Oh, they're here in the shadows

[-] ravhall@discuss.online 1 points 1 month ago

Awwww shucks.

[-] i_ben_fine@lemmy.one 1 points 1 month ago

Why would they defend China? This looks to be caused by conservative family values.

[-] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago

Hexbear people love conservative family values

[-] Deceptichum@quokk.au 30 points 1 month ago

China: Our population is declining, promote having more children.

Woman: Wants to freeze egg so could maybe have children in future.

China: Wtf are you doing‽

[-] tal@lemmy.today 5 points 1 month ago

I suspect that it's probably easier to just travel out-of-country than to spend half a decade in court.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago

The point was to set a precedent.

[-] TheBigBrother@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

What's the point if 5 years later she wouldn't be able to freeze their eggs anyway?

[-] meliaesc@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

For every other woman who wants to freeze their eggs too...

this post was submitted on 16 Aug 2024
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