"Rabbit Test" is a 2022 science fiction short story by Samantha Mills, exploring the history of and future of access to abortion.
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.
[6] In the Los Angeles Review of Books, Niall Harrison lauded it as "one of the most powerful recent examples of rapid-response science fiction" and "an incandescent and unashamed polemic that distills the bitter aftermath of 2022's Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization [decision] into a few thousand words.
"[7] Strange Horizons praised it as "fierce and formidable" and "furiously sharp", and noted that in addition to being a story, it is also "an illuminating history lesson about abortion and reproductive rights".