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So, in 2019 she took a train across the border from the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou to Hong Kong, where she froze her eggs in a private clinic.
Now age 31, the senior executive still hasn’t claimed them — she would need to be married to do so — but the two-hour journey gave her an option not available to most single women in China.
“I did the math,” she said. “I don’t want to rush into marriage with a random man.”
Beijing wants more babies — and on Friday, it formally wrote into law a policy allowing women to have three children, although it’s unclear when that will take effect.
But it won’t let clinics offer egg freezing procedures and in vitro fertilization (IVF) to unmarried women like Cai, arguing they are risky procedures that could “instil unrealistic hope in women who might mistakenly postpone childbearing plans.”
Single women say denying them access to reproductive procedures is discriminatory — and that freezing their eggs will allow them to get married and have…
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