Beijing/Hong Kong: The ordeal of a 22-year-old woman in China has become a topic of discussion on social media these days. The woman told how she got caught up in the country’s illegal surrogacy trade and then had an abortion. What happened to the woman has now gone viral on social media. After this incident, a discussion about women’s rights has started in China’s social media.
What did the woman say?
Zhang Jing, 22, who lives in China, told Phoenix TV Magazine that she is short of money. Lacking money, she donated her eggs and then agreed to “rent her womb” for pregnancy for 30,000 yuan. She was told that if she “successfully” gave birth, she would be paid a total of 240,000 yuan. According to Zhang Jing, when she was five months pregnant, she suffered serious complications that led to a miscarriage.
The video went viral
Zhang Jing’s video quickly went viral on social media in China, garnering more than 86 million views on Weibo. It received 10,000 comments, with the hashtag “#2000s-born surrogate miscarriage girl speaks out#”. Most of the comments strongly opposed surrogacy, with some even warning against it.
How did people react?
One user wrote, “If surrogacy is legalized no woman will survive”, while another said, “Legalizing surrogacy will bring down prices and make women a commodity.” “Life should not be sold like a commodity,” one user wrote. “If it extends to the sale of organs, it becomes even more deadly, women have no future.”
This is the condition of China
Let us tell you that surrogacy is banned in China. Meanwhile, it’s also worth noting that the incident comes at a time when Chinese officials are struggling with how to boost the country’s birth rate. The situation in China is such that most young couples are shy about having children or don’t want any children at all. China’s population will decline for the second year in a row in 2023. In China, Zhang’s story has fueled calls to crack down on illegal surrogacy.
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