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How far would you go to keep your baby? BIANN: Four

How far would you go to keep your baby? BIANN: Four

In a society where pregnancies are monitored and embryos are persons

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Tia Levings
May 08, 2024
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The following is the fourth 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.

Read the first segment here, the second segment here, the third here, and the introduction here.

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