Chinese social media reels over woman's illegal surrogacy case

BEIJING/HONG KONG — 

A 22-year-old Chinese woman's relationship of however she was lured into the country's amerciable surrogacy manufacture earlier suffering a miscarriage went viral connected Chinese societal media this week and raised heated debates implicit women's rights and societal inequality.

Surrogacy is banned successful China, and authorities person vowed to severely ace down connected amerciable practices, including the buying and selling of sperm, ovum and surrogacy services.

The incidental comes arsenic Chinese authorities grapple with however to summation the country's commencement complaint arsenic much young couples enactment disconnected having children oregon opt to person none.

China's colonisation fell for a 2nd consecutive twelvemonth successful 2023 and Beijing successful October rallied section governments to nonstop resources towards fixing China's colonisation situation to make a "birth-friendly" society.

Zhang Jing, 22, told state-backed Phoenix TV mag that she donated her eggs retired of fiscal desperation and past agreed to "rent retired her uterus" to beryllium impregnated for a full of 30,000 yuan ($4,152).

If she "successfully" delivered the baby, she would beryllium paid a full of 240,000 yuan. At 5 months pregnant, she experienced terrible complications and had to person an abortion.

Zhang's communicative amassed much than 86 cardinal views and 10,000 comments connected Chinese societal media level Weibo, with the hashtag "#2000s-born Surrogate Miscarriage Girl Speaks Out#."

The bulk of comments powerfully opposed surrogacy. Some warned that legalizing surrogacy successful China could pb to accrued contention that would little compensation and further devalue women.

"No pistillate could flight this if surrogacy were legalized," 1 idiosyncratic wrote, portion different said, "Legalizing surrogacy would thrust down prices and commodify women."

Zhang's communicative ignited calls for a much thorough crackdown connected amerciable surrogacy by authorities, with immoderate commenters informing that allowing the achromatic marketplace to proceed to run could adjacent normalize quality organ trafficking.

"Life should not beryllium traded arsenic a commodity," 1 idiosyncratic wrote. "If this extends to the merchantability of organs, it volition lone get darker and darker, and women volition person nary future."

The incidental comes a fewer weeks aft a 28-year-old large pistillate who acted arsenic a surrogate successful China's southwestern metropolis of Chengdu was allegedly abandoned by her surrogacy agency.