In 2091, the girl is getting a rabbit test through her app, an automatically administered pregnancy test. Since she’s still a minor, her doctor and parents will soon see that she’s pregnant. She calls her best friend immediately.

In 1931, two scientists publish a paper documenting how a prengancy test can be administered by injecting a urine sample into a rabbit and seeing, after dissecting it a few days later, if its ovaries have increased in size. Such a test will always cause the rabbit to die.

In 2091, the company name the rabbit tests as such as a historical nod—no rabbits actually die. The girl and her best friend, over coffee, talk about her predicament. She asks her for a blackout—a glitch which will disable her apps temporarily for a few days. Her best friend is curious about whether the father of her child knows. She panics but eventually decides to help the girl.

In 1940, new pregnancy tests use frogs instead of rabbits. After being injected with urine, the frogs will lay eggs that can then be determined for pregnancy. Unlike the rabbits, the frogs don’t die. Every year, thousands of frogs will be imported from southern Africa.

In 1839, a woman is pregnant but doesn’t want to have a fifth child. She finds a newspaper ad for an office that allegedly provides remedies against pregnancy. There, she finds out about all sorts of products that can stop or prevent pregnancy. In the same year, enslaved women with pregnancies do not have such amenities, but they at least have cotton root bark, a secret remedy that, if found, will certainly go punished by slavers.

In 2091, the girl commences the blackout code. Her rabbit test is administered, but its data is locally stored, which she quickly deletes. On the internet, she looks for websites with information on how to terminate a pregnancy. She finds an online forum and contacts a user who seems to know. Over audio call, the girl describes her predicament, and the user charges four hundred dollars for birth control. Briefly, they recall 2084, the year that abortion, birth control, and other kinds of reproductive care were banned. The girl, in particular, recalls her mother attending a march for reproduction; there, her mother calls the girl a miracle child for being miraculously born despite having accidentally taken birth control.

In 1978, a woman looks at an ad in a women’s magazine for a pregnancy test that is relatively affordable and easy to use at home. She wonders what the future of abortion will be. In her free time, she helps with the Abortion Counseling Service of Women’s Liberation, a network of community members who help pregnant people with reproductive car. The woman counsels, drives, and assists with those who call a certain helpline in need.

In 2091, the girl takes an electric scooter to pick up her birth control from the user. However, her parents soon intercept her. In 2084, the girl’s mother is marching in order to save babies and push back against the scientific establishment which has made it easy to terminate pregnancy; she wants a future in which her daughter exists. In 2092, the girl gives birth to a daughter.

In 1817, a girl is in love with a popular traveling preacher. The girl soon realizes that she’s pregnant with his child, to which he says that she must end the pregnancy. After several failed attempts at abortion, the preacher flees the state, and the girl has a stillborn. The preacher is then arrested and put to trial. Soon enough, the case prompts the first anti-abortion legislation in the United States, which vests the power to have an abortion within doctors rather than midwives.

In 2107, the girl’s daughter is fifteen. The girl works minimum wage in order to make ends meet for her family. One day, the daughter comes home with a pregnant result on her rabbit test. The girl tries to help her daughter abort and shoulders the responsibility for her illegal act. Eventually, the girl is arrested for murder and convicted for voluntary manslaughter. She is incarcerated for twelve years.

Throughout history, women have tried, against all odds—the nature of the world, the power of institutions, the punishment for taking one’s bodily autonomy—to confront and contend with pregnancy. Now, in 2119, the girl gets out of prison. Outside, in the prison’s parking lot, she sees her daughter and grandson. The daughter invites her mother, the girl, to a demonstration regarding an upcoming decision by Congress to overturn the ban on reproductive care. There, the daughter will be speaking.

In 2119, the daughter and her wife are speaking outside of Congress. She says that people do not have to obey laws that they find unjust. She talks about the government has been unjustly controlling the bodies and therefore the destinies of people since 2084. She recalls, aloud, the history of reproductive care and bodily autonomy for the last hundreds of years, how a long generation of women, daughters, mothers, have fought for this—how the fight isn’t yet over.