Two Short Stories - by Samantha Mills and Ernest Hemingway

For November, we will read two short stories related to the subject of Abortion:

"Rabbit-Test” by Samantha Mills Protected content
Winner of several awards, the story explores the history and future of access to abortion.
Description from Wikipedia :
"In Protected content , Grace is 17 years old, and abortion is totally banned. When her government-mandated menstrual tracker implant automatically administers a pregnancy test, her life changes. The story follows her over the next several decades, interspersed with vignettes about the history of abortion and pregnancy tests, going back millennia."
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“Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway Protected content
The short story deals with the difficulty of communicating on the subject of abortion.
Description from Wikipedia:
"It was first published in August Protected content , in the literary magazine transition, then later in the Protected content story collection Men Without Women. Later the story was also adapted for film in Protected content .

The story focuses mainly on a conversation between an American man and a young woman, described as a "girl," at a Spanish train station while waiting for a train to Madrid. The girl compares the nearby hills to white elephants. The pair indirectly discuss an "operation" that the man wants the girl to have, which is implied to be an abortion, that was taboo to talk about."
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