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holyshit: book I just came across (pro-choice/life)
I'm looking for inspiration for our school's summer reading list and came across this on Illinois's Read for a Lifetime. 
I plan to read it myself, but nofuckingway am I putting this on our school's summer reading!
Unwind Neal Shusterman In America after the Second Civil War (which is fought over abortion), the Pro-Choice and Pro-Life armies came to an agreement: The Bill of Life states that human life may not be touched from the moment of conception until a child reaches the age of thirteen. Between the ages of thirteen and eighteen, however, a parent may choose to retroactively get rid of a child through a process called "unwinding." Unwinding ensures that the child's life doesn?t "technically" end by transplanting all the organs in the child's body to various recipients. Now a common and accepted practice in society, troublesome or unwanted teens are able to easily be unwound. With breath-taking suspense, this book follows three teens who all become runaway Unwinds: Connor, a rebel whose parents have ordered his unwinding; Risa, a ward of the state who is to be unwound due to cost-cutting; and Lev, his parents' tenth child whose unwinding has been planned since birth as a religious tithing.
Re: holyshit: book I just came across (pro-choice/life)
I am a runner, knitter, scientist, DE-IVF veteran, and stage III colon cancer survivor.
I read this book and loved it.
ETA: I actually liked it a lot more than Never Let Me Go.
so is the hunger games. what's the big deal?
Looks interesting.
Wooooooow.
That's rather disturbing. I think I'd rather my teenager not read that. And I'm extremely pro-choice, and speak on it whenever I can. I don't think the topic of abortion should be hidden away from kids/teens, but this plot is just...too much, I think.