Feminist work on population governance has tracked its racial dynamics, its varied attempts to expunge the poor from the future, and its violent wresting of control over reproduction away from women. Attention has recently turned to “economised” understandings of possible and proto‐life that take the aggregate reproductivity of certain groups of women and girls as a means of shaping economic futures, which emerged as the dominant form of population governance during the Cold War. Underexplored in this incisive body of work, however, is the relationship between the reproductive body and social reproduction. This paper advances feminist work on adjudications of life worth in government policy and scientific expertise, and critical political economic work on global health governance, by exploring experiments in family planning. I do this through a discussion of the Zika virus, the recent re‐emergence of which was framed as an economic problem: experts “priced” a single case of microcephaly at US$10 million or more across a lifetime. Specifically, I examine a programme of contraceptive provision to women in Puerto Rico as part of the public health emergency, which I show to have possible eugenic effects. I argue that in the global politics of public and reproductive health, relatively new neoliberal health metrics have joined up with eugenicist impulses to value life according to future economic contributions. Such valuations of life focalise the reproductive body while abandoning the social reproductive body. The relationship between reproductive labour and social reproduction warrants further scrutiny, for as we careen through uncertain ecological futures, and as discourses about limited Earth for humans amid environmental crisis and limited funding for future children thicken, the reproductivity of certain women and girls is being tinkered with by experts, governments, and private institutions in new ways.

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为孩子着想：寨卡公共卫生紧急事件中的生殖节育

女权主义在人口治理方面的工作追踪了其种族动态，为摆脱贫困而进行的各种尝试以及对妇女控制生育权的猛烈争夺。最近，注意力转向了对可能和原始生命的“经济化”理解，这种理解将某些妇女和女孩群体的总体生殖力作为塑造经济未来的一种手段，在冷战期间，这种经济已成为人口管理的主要形式。然而，在这种敏锐的工作体系中，生殖机构与社会再生产之间的关系尚未得到充分的研究。通过探索计划生育方面的实验，本文推进了女权主义者在政府政策和科学专门知识方面的生命价值裁决工作，以及关于全球卫生治理的重要政治经济学工作。我是通过讨论Zika病毒来做到这一点的，最近再次出现Zika病毒是一个经济问题：专家将一小例小头畸形虫在整个生命周期中“定价”为1000万美元或以上。具体而言，作为公共卫生紧急情况的一部分，我研究了波多黎各为妇女提供避孕措施的方案，该方案显示可能具有优生作用。我认为，在全球公共卫生和生殖健康政治中，相对较新的新自由主义卫生指标与优生主义者的冲动相结合，以根据未来的经济贡献来珍视生命。这种对生命的估价使生殖机构集中精力，而放弃了社会生殖机构。生殖劳动与社会再生产之间的关系值得进一步研究，因为在我们关注不确定的生态未来时，