Leni zumas5/28/2023 Zumas successfully reminds that access to reproductive choice does not always signal an avenue to abortions. Indeed, Red Clocks serves as a conscientious parable for contemporary society. This is a clear reference to current Mike Pence’s attempt to pass similar legislation while Governor of Indiana. Zumas relies on several references to contemporary anti-abortion discourses including forcing women to hold funerals for fetuses. This world is akin to a right-wing extremists’ ideal. In accordance with the United States, Canada reinforces the Pink Wall, disallowing border crossers from seeking reproductive procedures anywhere in the northern country. By extension, adoption practices are amended by Every Child Needs Two, an act prohibiting single people from adopting. Women found seeking abortion services face similar punishments.įurther, since embryos can’t give their consent, in vitro fertilization is also banned. Abortion is illegal and providers caught administering one are charged with second-degree murder. This legislation “gives the constitutional right to life, liberty, and property to a fertilized egg at the moment of conception” (32). Set in Oregon, the plot unfolds about a month prior to the enactment of the Personhood Amendment. A reproductive dystopian novel, Zumas fictionalizes the consequences of banishing pro-choice legislation. In Leni Zumas’ Red Clocks, American women have lost all corporeal agency.
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