The future of reproductive rights is not lost—and science fiction can help us explain why.
. Their goal is to change the course of history. Spoilers: They succeed—sort of. When they return to 2022, abortion is legal in a few states, though it remains illegal in the majority of them.It is not a good feeling to live through a version of the dark timeline I imagined in my fiction. As I wrote my novel, the Brett Kavanaugh hearings were spawning new memes about the joy of beer and the worthlessness of women’s bodily autonomy.
. In recent years, states like Texas have made it so difficult for people to get abortions that the procedure is effectively out of reach.This isn’t a new situation, either. In the 1980s, the Hyde Amendment made it unlawful to use federal funds for abortions. That means Indigenous people living on reservations, where clinics are federally funded,—unless they drive to the nearest hospital offering abortions, which might be hundreds of miles away from home.
The alternate timeline I imagined in my novel was already unfolding within America’s official story of abortion access for everyone. Many people did not have access. Clinic workers, and many others were systematically harassed. All I had to do was describe what was actually happening around me. In some ways, the only difference between my novel and many Americans’ reality is that my activists have access to some really cool time machines.
,” for example, a time traveler steps on a butterfly 65 million years ago, and returns to the present to discover a fascist has taken over the United States.Put in real-life terms: One slight shift in our historical circumstances, and we wake up in a new nation where access to abortion has been lost with a court decision signed by just six people. In a similarly abrupt way, our leaders empowered border patrols to imprison refugees.
is whether history is driven by a few powerful individuals , or by collective social action. Believing fiercely in the latter, they team up with 19
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