Ethan's Reviews > Uncanny Magazine Issue 49: November/December 2022

"Rabbit Test" by Samantha Mills: I think the storytelling trend of "jumping back and forth in time" is getting to be way overdone these days (case in point: the recent Beanie Baby movie... why?), but here it works well to tell a story about issues of pregnancy and abortion throughout, well, most of human history and into the 22nd century. The result is as historically and philosophically interesting as it is emotionally visceral. Why do we keep fighting these battles when lots of people throughout history and (if opinion polls are accurate) even most Americans today have been in favor of bodily autonomy? I hope that the US in 2023 is just in a bad spot where a relatively small minority exploited political vulnerabilities, but "Rabbit Test" makes me fear that these battles may never be over.