Justice reproductive en Finlande? Le mythe de l’homogénéité dans une social-démocratie nordique

Finland’s welfare state is premised on social equality, yet reproductive justice still is not a reality there. We explore the causes of this situation through two ethnographic studies of assisted reproductive technologies, which attest to deviations from reproductive justice related to race, class, gender, and sexuality. Our conversations with Finnish researchers and medical professionals reveal the affects, histories, and logics through which unequal access to reproductive healthcare operates, and the ways in which this inequality has remained partly concealed. Some of the causes identified are the myth and reproduction of white homogeneity, the legacy of eugenics, the concentration of power in the hands of doctors when it comes to ethical decision-making, the framing of discrimination as a resource problem, the denial that there are inequities, and ideological closure regarding the future of the welfare state.