A heated debate has broken out online over whether it is right to ban single women from freezing their eggs after China Central Television posted an explanatory thread in response to an admission by an actress that she has frozen her eggs.
With a video illustrating the pros and cons of having babies with the assistance of Oocyte Cryopreservation, or egg freezing technology, the post generated a huge response and attracted 109,442 reposts, 31,815 comments and 13,715 likes within two days after its publication.
Egg freezing is classified as a supplementary IVF (in vitro fertilization) measure in China and the procedure is only available to married women who must have a valid reproduction permit, as stipulated by the Assisted Reproductive Technology Regulation issued by the National Health and Family Planning Commission, the country's top health body.
The only exceptions are women with conditions such as premature ovarian failure, or those undergoing chemo therapies. Freezing eggs solely for preserving or extending fertility is illegal, the regulation states.
This reproductive technology has become the focus of public discussion partly because 41-year-old Xu Jinglei, a Chinese actress, announced about one month ago that she had frozen nine of her eggs in 2013 to give herself more opportunities of having babies at a later stage.
"Egg freezing technology is the only way for me to go back and rectify my decision of not having babies now if I later regret this decision,"said Xu at that time.
In response to CCTV's post explaining China's denial of access to the technology to single women, Xu expressed her unhappiness at the move by sarcastically commenting that now there is a new creature in the world called Chinese single women.
Her view found support in Han Han，an intellectual and best-selling author, who forwarded CCTV's post and wondered whether a woman must get married before she can have a baby and whether a woman has the right to dispose of her own eggs freely and whether she has the right to exercise her own reproduction rights.
"Why is having a baby bound up with getting married?" asked Han.
However, some experts claim that the reproductive technology poses health risks.
The recovery rate of frozen eggs after thawing is 70 percent to 80 percent in contrast with the more mature technology of frozen embryos whose recovery rate is more than 95 percent, said Sun Xiaoxi, a doctor at Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital of Fudan University.
Frozen eggs may also leave uncertain effects on offsprings and the procedure of retrieving eggs may cause women complications such as hemorrhage, inflammation and ovarian function damage.
日前，在一位女明星認可本身冷凍卵子以後中國中心電視台宣布了一則解密冷凍卵子進程的消息， 這在網上引發軒然大波，網友們對制止獨身只身女性冷凍卵子這一劃定是不是準確舉行了劇烈評論辯論。
解密卵母細胞冷凍技巧(或卵子冷凍術)幫助生寶寶的好壞勢的視頻傳到網上以後，在2天時光內就有10萬9442條轉發，3萬1815條批評和1萬3715個贊，引發偉大反應。
在中國，冷凍卵子被視作體外受精有身的一種方法，依據中國威望衛生構造——國度衛生和籌劃生養委員會的《幫助生殖技巧條例》，只有具有準生證的已婚女性才可冷凍卵子。
只有那些卵巢功效衰竭或須要舉行化療的人材可破例。條例劃定，以貯存卵子或進步生養才能為目標而冷凍卵子的行動是違法的。
今生殖技巧引發燒議的部門緣故原由是41歲的中國女演員徐靜蕾一月前表現本身2013年時冷凍了9顆卵子以確保本身今後有更多機遇生孩子。
徐靜蕾其時表現：“冷凍卵子是獨一的懊悔藥，萬一哪一天轉變了主張，總另有一條退路，有一個辦理方法。
對付央視頒布的我國制止獨身只身女性冷凍卵子的消息，徐靜蕾表現不滿，以頗具譏諷的口氣說道，有種生物叫：我國獨身只身女性。
她的談吐獲得了脫銷書才子作家韓寒的支撐，韓寒轉發了央視的微博，並表現本身不明確為什麽女性必需先娶親能力生孩子，為什麽女性不克不及決議若何應用本身的卵子，和女性是不是能自力利用生養權力。
“生養必需要和找個漢子娶親綁縛嗎?”韓寒問道。
然則，有專家表現，今生殖技巧存在必定危害。
復旦大學從屬婦產科病院大夫孫曉溪表現，今朝冷凍胚胎蘇醒率達95%以上，冷凍卵子的蘇醒率只有70%--80% 。
冷凍卵子大概對子女造成影響，而且取卵子的進程大概會引發一些婦科並發癥好比出血、沾染，也大概損害卵巢功效。
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