Abortion in SF
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SF featuring abortion.
What's the status of abortion in the future? Or on alternate worlds? What SF-nal characters deal with abortion?
List of works
- Flynn Connolly - The Rising of the Moon (1993), a future Ireland where abortion is still illegal.
- Elizabeth DeVos - "Out of the Fire" in Imagination Fully Dilated: Science Fiction, ed. Robert Kruger & Patrick Swenson, a phoenix decides not to die and right-to-lifers are concerned that the phoenix will never be reborn.
- Lucy Ferriss - The Misconceiver, all about future abortionists.
- Esther M. Friesner - "A Birthday", a dystopian short story.
- Joan Givner - Half Known Lives (2001), an anti-choice male politician is impregnated.
- Nalo Hopkinson - Midnight Robber (2000), the protagonist has an abortion after sexual abuse by her father.
- Robert J. Howe - "Miscarriage of Justice" at Salon.com (2004 March 24), the punishment for abortion is a "life sentence of hard labor".
- Marie Jakober - Even the Stones (originally published as High Kamilan), an abortion scene at the beginning of the novel which becomes an important aspect of plot.
- Carrie Laben - "Something in the Mermaid Way" at Clarkesworld Magazine (2007 March), abortion as a response to economic stress and as a creative act.
- Thomas F. Monteleone - "Breath's a Ware That Will Not Keep" (in Dystopian Visions, ed. Roger Elwood (Prentice Hall: 1975).
- Rachel Cosgrove Payes - "Come Take a Dip with Me in the Genetic Pool" in Dystopian Visions, ed. Roger Elwood (Prentice Hall: 1975).
- Josephine Saxton - "Big Operation on Altair Three" in Despatches from the Frontiers of the Female Mind, ed. Jen Green & Sarah Lefanu (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" Despatches from the Frontiers of the Female Mind, ed. Jen Green & Sarah Lefanu (The Women's Press: 1985), what happens to all the extra babies in a near-future U.S. 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 intention of increasing the population.
- "Rain Without Thunder" (1993) (dir. Gary Bennett), a future U.S. in which abortion has been outlawed.
- "Pro-Life" (2007) (dir. John Carpenter; the Showtime Masters of Horror series)