This book series brings together scholars from across the social sciences and humanities who are working in the broad field of human reproduction. Reproduction is a growing field of interest in the UK and internationally, and this series publishes work from across the lifecycle of reproduction addressing issues such as conception, contraception, abortion, pregnancy, birth, infertility, pre-and postnatal care, pre-natal screen and testing, IVF, prenatal genetic diagnosis, mitochondrial donation, surrogacy, adoption, reproductive donation, family-making and more. Books in this series will focus on the social, cultural, material, legal, historical and political aspects of human reproduction, encouraging work from early career researchers as well as established scholars. The series includes monographs, edited collections and shortform books (between 20-50,000 words). Contributors use the latest conceptual, methodological and theoretical developments to enhance and develop current thinking about human reproduction and its significance for understanding wider social practices and processes.

In Denmark and Sweden sperm donation is the most debated and contested of the reproductive technologies that are currently in use. Although the two countries are neighbouring welfare states with public healthcare in common, policies and practices of sperm banking and sperm donation differ strongly. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, this article explores how the sperm used for donor insemination is narrated, chosen, produced and consumed at sperm banks in Denmark and Sweden. The analysis illustrates that marginalization and stigmatization of infertile men, donors, single women, lesbians and donor children not only takes place in the media and during debates in the Danish and Swedish parliaments where the technology has historically been contested, but also at the sperm banks and fertility clinics. This article therefore calls for more inclusive stories on sperm donation to be narrated.

Objective The aim of this study was to investigate choices of and reasoning behind chorionic villous sampling and opinions on non‐invasive prenatal testing among women and men achieving pregnancy following preimplantation genetic testing (PGT) for hereditary disorders. Methods A questionnaire was electronically submitted to patients who had achieved a clinical pregnancy following PGT at the Center for Preimplantation Genetic Testing, Aalborg University Hospital, Denmark, between 2017 and 2020. Results Chorionic villous sampling was declined by approximately half of the patients. The primary reason for declining was the perceived risk of miscarriage due to the procedure. Nine out of 10 patients responded that they would have opted for a non‐invasive prenatal test if it had been offered. Some patients were not aware that the nuchal translucency scan offered to all pregnant women in the early second trimester only rarely provides information on the hereditary disorder for which PGT was performed. Conclusion Improved counseling on the array of prenatal tests and screenings available might be required to assist patients in making better informed decisions regarding prenatal testing. Non‐invasive prenatal testing is welcomed by the patients and will likely increase the number of patients opting for confirmatory prenatal testing following PGT for hereditary disorders.

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Dvs. at jeg blev nysgerrig på, hvordan naturlighedens paradoks konstant kommer til udtryk og kan få omfattende konsekvenser for involverede aktører -humane som ikke-humane.Interessen for samspillet mellem natur og kultur har igennem mange år vaeret et centralt tema i kulturstudier, der forholder sig til teknologi. Donna Haraway har vaeret med til at nuancere og muliggøre analyser af samspillet mellem krop og teknologi via sin figuration cyborgen, der åbner op for at taenke teknologi, dyr og menneske sammen og byder på raffinerede teknologianalyser, der hverken placerer sig som teknofobe eller teknofile, men som i stedet analyserer, hvordan teknologier indgår i et komplekst spil af normative forestillinger og magtforhold.På samme måde har hun introduceret figurationer som coyoten, der husker os på at inkludere de materielle overraskelser, som kroppe, celler, landskaber mv.byder på analytisk, og som denne artikel er dybt inspireret af (Haraway 1991).I etnografiske studier om assisteret befrugtning har natur-kultur tematikken da også vaeret et yndet genstandsfelt (Burfoot 1990;Cussins 1998;Franklin 1997;Franklin og Ragoné 1998;Strathern;Thompson 2005). Det, jeg i denne artikel konceptualiserer som naturlighedens paradoks, er således tidligere blevet udforsket og udfordret analytisk. I en raekke af disse studier er naturen som model ble- 2 Flere studier har analyseret, hvordan lesbiske og enlige er blevet stigmatiseret i de parlamentariske debatter pga. bestemte forestillinger om naturen.