In this article, we look at how the politics of reproduction take form in Denmark when people are denied access to IVF. Approaching IVF as a selective reproductive technology, we explore IVF’s selective potential in terms of reproductive governance and reproductive citizenship by analyzing decisions by the Danish State Administration about whether people get access to IVF or not. For that purpose, we had access to assessments of people’s inability to parent that are required by law in case doubts about a person’s ability to parent arise when they seek treatment with IVF in Denmark. Through this analysis, we identify three parenthood and citizenship ideals that characterize reproductive governance and the politics of reproduction in Denmark: (1) the medically sane/sober self whose parenting and societal decisions are not influenced by self-altering medical diagnoses and/or treatment, (2) the independent, capable, and productive self that pursues a meaningful life in societal terms, and (3) the responsible self that actively invests into reproductive futures. Based on this analysis, we argue that people are unduly excluded from reproduction if they are identified as not living up to these ideals because of the intersections of their gendered, bodily, social, and economic positioning.

在本文中，我们将探讨在人们无法获得试管婴儿的情况下，丹麦的生殖政治如何形成。我们将IVF作为一种选择性生殖技术，我们通过分析丹麦国家政府关于人们是否可以使用IVF的决定，来探讨IVF在生殖治理和生殖公民身份方面的选择性潜力。为此，我们可以根据法律要求评估人们的父母无能力，以防人们在丹麦寻求IVF治疗时对父母的能力产生怀疑。通过此分析，我们确定了丹麦的生殖治理和生殖政治的三个育儿理想和公民理想：（1）医学上健全/清醒的自我，其养育和社会决定不受自我改变的医学诊断和/或治疗的影响；（2）独立的，有能力的和生产性的自我，以社会的意义追求有意义的生活，并且（ 3）积极投资于生殖期货的负责任的自我。根据这一分析，我们认为，如果由于性别，身体，社会和经济地位的交集而被确定为不符合这些理想，人们就被过度地排斥在生殖之外。