Birth in a New Nation: One

In a society where pregnancies are monitored and embryos are persons

The following is the first segment of BIRTH IN A NEW NATION, a speculative fiction short story that envisions maternity care in a Christian Patriarchy where embryos have full personhood rights, and women do not; a world where monitoring pregnancies and criminalizing pregnancy loss the way the GOP is trying to do now, has become a widespread reality. A partial version of this story placed third in the 2019 Short Story Project competition and was a 2020 Screencraft finalist.