Reproductive Statutes
Names: Reproductive StatutesRepro StatutesRepro StatuteProctorship Repro StatutesMilieu Reproductive Statutes
First appears in Book 2: Jack the Bodiless, chapter 5 (2 A RETROSPECTIVE DIGRESSION BERLIN, NEW HAMPSHIRE, EARTH 30 MARCH 2040)
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What you know
Book 2: Jack the Bodiless
- Ch 5The Reproductive Statutes sharply restrict artificial gestation, which is technically possible, though it may be used to populate ethnic planets.
- Ch 6Law imposed under the Simbiari; for normals the penalty is a fine and sterilization, and operants face harsher consequences.
- Ch 7The Milieu-imposed statutes allow abortion of fetuses with intractable lethal genes; Teresa's pregnancy is a Class One felony after her license was revoked.
- Ch 7The Reproductive Statutes forbid Teresa's pregnancy; once born, the baby would be a legal entity with full right to life-sustaining care.
- Ch 18The Reproductive Statutes, imposed under the Simbiari Proctorship, are bitterly resented by humans; Teresa's unauthorized child violates them.
- Ch 30The Dynasty hopes to repeal or modify the Reproductive Statutes and obtain pardons or amnesty for violators like Teresa and Rogi.
- Ch 31Under the Simbiari Proctorship, an operant violating the Repro Statutes faced the death penalty; a resolution to modify them passed the Intendant Assembly three weeks earlier.
- Ch 32Set up by the Simbiari Proctorship, they required genetic assay before reproduction licenses; operants who bore seriously flawed children faced death, along with the fetus.