According to the rhetoric used by Donald Trump during the presidential debates, women can rip babies out of their wombs moments before birth. This imagery runs counter to current laws , which in most states allow abortions only before a fetus has reached 24 to 26 weeks. Some states outlaw abortion as few as 12 weeks after a womans most recent menstrual period; North Dakotas cutoff is six weeks.

The presidents language on the issue led pro-life proponents to fear an overturn of Roe v. Wade, a law that younger women may take for granted as a basic right. But stories like Margaret Atwoods The Handmaids Tale, a speculative fiction book from the 1980s thats getting adapted this year for Hulu, work to remind us that few rights are truly inalienable, and a perfect storm of circumstances could undo the freedoms of millions.

While dystopian stories like Atwoods help readers contextualize the here and now, theres also a stable of science fiction authors using the genre to explore possible solutions to current problems . So, we asked authors to imagine how reproductive rights could be protected, and improved, in the future. Their answers, below, include birth control injections distributed to both men and women, and socializing kids to take ownership of their own bodies.