Chinese Women Travel Abroad for Egg Freezing

New York Times (Aug. 30, 2016): Chinese Women Head Overseas to Freeze Their Eggs, by Carolyn Zhang:

A growing number of single Chinese women are traveling abroad to freeze their eggs.  They want the option to become mothers even if busy careers and the lack of a stable partner cause them to delay having children.  Single women need to travel because China tightly controls access to assisted reproduction.  Infertility treatments for unmarried women are completely banned, making travel abroad necessary.  Even heterosexual couples must present proof of their marriage, proof of infertility, and a license to give birth.  Reproductive rights in this domain are trumped in China by concerns that reproductive technologies will have a negative impact on its population policies and will create a black market for human eggs.  It is also against China's moral code for unmarried women to bear children.  Nonetheless, the interest among unmarried women is high.  Brokerage firms have begun matching them with clinics abroad.  Continuing the trend, some American infertility clinics have opened offices in Chinese cities.