Single Women's Rights Bill Triggers Controversy

A proposed bill on Population and Family Planning Regulation tabled by Northeast Chinas Jilin Province legislature has touched off a national debate on whether single women have reproductive rights. Controversy focuses on the stipulation that single women above the legal age for marriage, without kids and not wanting to get married later in their lives, can give birth to a child through legal medical-assisted reproductive techniques. Technically, there is no difficulty for women to get pre…