Beijing:
A 22-year-old Chinese language girl’s account of how she was lured into the nation’s unlawful surrogacy trade earlier than struggling a miscarriage went viral on Chinese language social media this week and raised heated debates over girls’s rights and social inequality.
Surrogacy is banned in China, and authorities have vowed to severely crack down on unlawful practices, together with the shopping for and promoting of sperm, egg, and surrogacy providers.
The incident comes as Chinese language authorities grapple with tips on how to enhance the nation’s delivery fee as extra younger {couples} postpone having kids or decide to have none.
China’s inhabitants fell for a second consecutive yr in 2023 and Beijing in October rallied native governments to direct assets in the direction of fixing China’s inhabitants disaster to create a “birth-friendly” society.
Zhang Jing, 22, advised state-backed Phoenix TV journal that she donated her eggs out of monetary desperation after which agreed to “hire out her uterus” to be impregnated for a complete of 30,000 yuan ($4,152).
If she “efficiently” delivered the child, she could be paid a complete of 240,000 yuan. At 5 months pregnant, she skilled extreme problems and needed to have an abortion.
Zhang’s story amassed greater than 86 million views and 10,000 feedback on the Chinese language social media platform Weibo, with the hashtag “#2000s-born Surrogate Miscarriage Woman Speaks Out#.”
Nearly all of feedback strongly opposed surrogacy. Some warned that legalising surrogacy in China may result in elevated competitors that might decrease compensation and additional devalue girls.
“No girl may escape this if surrogacy have been legalised,” one person wrote, whereas one other mentioned, “Legalising surrogacy would drive down costs and commodify girls.”
Zhang’s story ignited requires a extra thorough crackdown on unlawful surrogacy by authorities, with some commenters warning that permitting the black market to proceed to function may even normalise human organ trafficking.
“Life shouldn’t be traded as a commodity,” one person wrote. “If this extends to the sale of organs, it’s going to solely get darker and darker, and girls may have no future.”
The incident comes just a few weeks after a 28-year-old pregnant girl who acted as a surrogate in China’s southwestern metropolis of Chengdu was allegedly deserted by her surrogacy company.
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