Prosthetic Conscience

Dead Loves, by Ian McDowell

This zombie storie has one of the sickest, yet truest-to-life images I’ve ever read. In a world recovering from the zombie plague, where the reanimation of the dead is an everyday occurrence, anti-abortion protestors carry reanimated fetuses in jars on their picket lines. This may be in violation of the “Gingrich Act,” which forbids the possession of a reanimated corpse, and specifies that all corpses are to be pithed like a frog in high-school biology lab. The protestors want to be found in violation of the act, as it only forbids possession of reanimated human remains, and successfully prosecuting them under the act would legally establish fetuses as human beings.

Even after the end of the world, everything is political.

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