Abortion in SF

SF About Abortion

• Flynn Connolly, The Rising of the Moon (1993) (Future Ireland; abortion is still illegal)

• Elizabeth DeVos. "Out of the Fire" (in Imagination Fully Dilated: Science Fiction, ed. by Robert Kruger & Patrick Swenson) (a phoenix decides not to die; right-to-lifers are concerned that the phoenix will never be reborn)
• Lucy Ferriss. The Misconceivers (all about future abortionists)
• Esther M. Friesner. "A Birthday" (short story, dystopian)
• Joan Givner. Half Known Lives (2001) (anti-choice male politician is impregnated)
• Robert J. Howe. "Miscarriage of Justice" (in Salon.com, 2004 March 24) (punishment for abortion is a "life sentence of hard labor")
• Marie Jakober. Even the Stones (originally published as High Kamilan) (abortion scene at beginning of novel; abortion turns out to have been an important aspect of plot)
• Thomas F. Monteleone. "Breath's a Ware That Will Not Keep" (in Dystopian Visions, edited by Roger Elwood (Prentice Hall: 1975).
• Rachel Cosgrove Payes. "Come Take a Dip with Me in the Genetic Pool" (in Dystopian Visions, edited by Roger Elwood (Prentice Hall: 1975).
• Josephine Saxton. "Big Operation on Altair Three" (in Jen Green & Sarah Lefanu, editors, Despatches from the Frontiers of the Female Mind, The Women's Press: 1985) (In a hyper-real world of future advertising, a real live surgery is performed to sell cars ... )
• Raccoona Sheldon. "Morality Meat" (in Jen Green & Sarah Lefanu, editors, Despatches from the Frontiers of the Female Mind, The Women's Press: 1985) (What happens to all the extra babies in a near-future US when abortion has been outlawed?)
• Rick Lawler, editor. Abortion Stories: Fiction on Fire (1992) (23 stories about abortion; many are SF)
• "Battlestar Galactica" episodes "Epiphanies" (forced abortion) and "The Captain's Hand" (abortion is outlawed with the intent of increasing the population)
• "Rain Without Thunder" (1993) (dir. Gary Bennett) (a future US in which abortion has been outlawed)

see: Birth Control