Last week, Xu Zaozao, also known as Teresa Xu, received the final verdict for a lawsuit she filed in 2019 against an obstetrics hospital that denied her access to egg-freezing services. Rejecting Xu's third appeal on Aug. 7, the Third Intermediate People's Court in Beijing sided with the hospital, saying it did not violate her rights by doing so. For the claimant, the outcome of a six-year battle for reproductive rights came as no surprise. “I was mentally prepared for it,” she said in a live stream on her social media account. “This result wasn’t all that unexpected.”
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