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Issued April 20th, 2346

“The solution to a deteriorating society is finally at hand.” These were the words that were spoken to us, as a nation. Spoken far too often in the years leading up to the ultimate rebirth of our society. Today, they can finally be spoken in truth. Dr. Leonard Hall and his Associates at the AFBH science division—STORK, have found the key to what we have all desperately yearned for: a society without weakness. In December 2335 Director Ernesto Grande issued a new bill stating that: “To create a more perfect society, all beings of a weaker form must be disposed of.” Soon after this house pets were banned from all residences, and the only use allowed for animals was food. All insects were killed in the largest mass fumigation in history, and Leonard Hall’s right hand man, Dr. Peter Freidd himself aided in the invention of artificial honeybees, which followed the identical pattern of real bees in pollination.

However, what Director Grande was particularly referring to was not restricted solely to insects and animals. He was referring to a study that had been conducted on the five key attributes necessary for rebuilding the nations after The World War. These attributes were concluded to be strength, intelligence, leadership, meticulousness, and the conviction necessary to carry out a plan. When tested against group made up entirely of males and females, the females scored dangerously low in each of these areas. The experiment was recreated several times, and the results practically mirrored each other. Because of this, it was decided that females were inferior, and had to be eradicated.

The uproar that ensued from that decision pushed the leaders to making it illegal to be female, to possess a female child or shelter a female who refused to undergo a gender mutation surgery, or to be affiliated with a female in any way. The bill was proposed at state level first in South Carolina, then to nationwide level in U.N.A. congress. It was debated about much, especially after Dr. Hall’s speech on “The Science Behind Artificial Reproduction”. In this speech, he said, “We have found a way to culture our batches to only be male. By carefully controlling the X and Y chromosomes in the beginning of fertilization, we can now successfully grow healthy males in artificial wombs. This is a tremendous achievement, specifically because all human beings start out life as females.”

A report written on this statement confirmed it. A study was conducted by Head Geneticist Thomas Palite, asserting that before one forms into a male, the unborn fetus is caught in a stage known as ‘gender neutral’, not quite female but not male. Because the male genome requires the Y chromosome, it evolves into a certain gene known as the SRY gene, which takes a while to kick in, to turn ovary-like organs into testes. Because of this, it makes it a great deal harder to speed up the process. At first the element of chance was still prevalent, where each fetus was simply cultured until gender could be determined, then the females disposed of. The solution came when Dr. Palite realized all that was necessary was to control the chromosomes in the beginning, using a specially designed nanobot to rewire the smallest segment in the double helix of human DNA, or the very essence. This nanobot, created by Mr. Eric Hornan, working in tandem with Dr. Hall, would then create identical egg cell clones that can only have one X chromosome, and identical sperm cells, that can only have one Y chromosome, eliminating change when combining into a zygote, which is the cell created, once at the moment of conception.

This is far more convenient than natural childbearing, since no women are needed and there is no pain involved. “The culturing process makes it possible for men to have offspring, for without females it is impossible to bear them naturally.” Later, in February 2340, Dr. Hall named his new program “The STORK program”, named after the science division he is head of. This has ensured the steady and continuous growth of society.

In March there was a great riot in South Carolina that killed many people, and a successful assassination attempt upon the senator who had originally taken the bill to congress. It was a riot of female protestors that turned sourly violent, first begging, then demanding the bill to be vetoed. The woman who had killed Senator Painswick escaped originally, but was later identified as Olivia Damian, leader of “Daughters of Eve”, a radical anti-government feminist organization. This event was then addressed by The President of the United Nations of America, Harold Swanson, and on March 21st, it was finally said that the law would be passed. The President stated: “Females are a defect in society, a flaw that must be fixed. There is a reason that the seat of First Lady has not been filled since the first New President. By using the STORK program, created by my good friend, Dr. Leonard Hall, we can begin again, clean the slate and start anew towards a more perfect society. “A society without weakness”, as put so eloquently by Director Grande. I leave this in the hands of AFBH’s science division. No more questions.” This was the President’s closing statement in the press conference, after which the “Eradication and Elimination” of all females in The United Nations of America took place. In the beginning it was mere martial law imposed upon the states that had experience uproar, but later turned into a swift extermination, using genetic weapons to dispose of all females who refused to leave.

After that two-month period, the smoke seemed to clear and the dust seemed to settle, and all that wanted to take place in the great cornerstone of society went to their local STORK center, where they could send in an order describing the characteristics they wanted the infant to have. Then, through a culturing period of three months, the people working at STORK created the child according to said person’s specifications, and would then deliver them in a temperature controlled incubation chamber. The first of these children was named, Howard Wells, and became the son of the newly elected Secretary of State.

A few years later, STORK came across a small problem. Because the cultured children’s chromosomes and characteristics were controlled through mutation, every once in a while, two X chromosomes could not be kept from mutating into the batch. It was said to be something from an archaic interpretation of a ‘natural law of diversity’, but there was no question that it had to be stopped. At first, all female fetuses were simply disposed of. But later, they found that for every incorrectly mutated fetus disposed of, one boy was born with severe defects. By waiting until said female was of age and having them choose the gender mutation surgery or exile, they fixed this problem. It was later stated by the President in a press conference in March 2346 that “We have now, as Americans, taken a step toward a promising future, a perfect future, a future of hope for this country. Through the ages it has been our motto to “Make America Great Again”. After our destruction and our eventual reconstruction, we have finally lived up to that poetic anthem declaring how we are to live our very lives.”

This was an especially driving declaration for all citizens of the U.N.A. given the fact that the country had been in a major technological crisis for the past five years, after all the biggest corporations involved in the manufacturing and trade of technological devices had become bankrupt due to an excess of female workers. This had caused debt in the U.N.A. in need of repayment to Asian countries, with nearly monthly shipments coming in from Japan and China for basic needs such as teleportation, food storage, and sleep lozenges.

After the law was passed, it was believed that balance had been restored, and the U.N.A. was able to pay off their debt, one which was crawling to the amount of the U.S. debt to China of 13 trillion dollars in 2011.

The law that had originally been passed banning females was then named “The XX Law”. The issue has not been spoken of by the White House or Congress since.

Ronald Teabacker,

Washington Post