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[identity profile] seth ellis (from livejournal.com) 2015-10-17 03:33 pm (UTC)(link)
The premise of this book sounds like an extrapolation of a Philip K. Dick story of which I forget the name, in which abortion is legal up to age twelve or so, and performed by abortion trucks designed to look like ice cream trucks. It was an effective piece of hallucinatory paranoia, Dick style, but not at all believable, and quite misogynist as I recall. And what you can't sustain for a dozen pages is unlikely to last well in a whole novel.

[identity profile] agharta75.livejournal.com 2015-10-17 03:48 pm (UTC)(link)
"The Pre-Persons".

As I remember, Joanna Russ threatened to beat up Dick over that one ...

[identity profile] seth ellis (from livejournal.com) 2015-10-17 03:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Well-deserved. I hope she did.

[identity profile] awesomeaud.livejournal.com 2015-10-17 04:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Joanna Russ beating up a dick? I'm shocked!!!

:)

[identity profile] ethelmay.livejournal.com 2015-10-17 09:39 pm (UTC)(link)
I thought at first you meant abortion was legal if the pregnant person was 12 or under, which is a not-quite-nonsensical position.

[identity profile] seth ellis (from livejournal.com) 2015-10-17 10:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Far too reasonable for Dick, alas.
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