{"id":12432,"date":"2019-12-24T21:35:56","date_gmt":"2019-12-24T12:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/24\/single-woman-sues-chinese-hospital-refuse-freeze-eggs"},"modified":"2019-12-24T21:35:56","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T12:35:56","slug":"single-woman-sues-chinese-hospital-for-refusal-to-freeze-eggs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=12432","title":{"rendered":"Single woman sues Chinese hospital for refusal to freeze eggs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Teresa Xu says doctor told her to hurry up and get married before having children<\/p>\n<p>At the end of last year, Teresa Xu visited a hospital in Beijing to discuss options for freezing her eggs. The doctor said she could not help Xu, a single woman, because it went against regulations. Then she gave the 31-year-old some sisterly advice: hurry up, get married and have children now.<\/p>\n<p>Xu was shocked and disappointed. \u201cI had no way to express my anger,\u201d she said. She felt like she was being treated like a wayward child. \u201cLike I was an intruder, delaying other couples \u2026 like my demands were too much. I felt powerless and depressed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/24\/single-woman-sues-chinese-hospital-refuse-freeze-eggs\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teresa Xu says doctor told her to hurry up and get married before having childrenAt the end of last year, Teresa Xu visited a hospital in Beijing to discuss options for freezing her eggs. The doctor said she could not help Xu, a single woman, because i&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,1013,721,59,346,78,79,281,617,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-chinas-one-child-policy","category-fertility-problems","category-global-development","category-health","category-life-and-style","category-society","category-women","category-womens-rights-and-gender-equality","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12433,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12432\/revisions\/12433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}