History Literature / TheTestamentOfJessieLamb

* Hypocrite: Jessie's father lauded volunteers as heroes but refused to let his daughter become one.

* DeathBySex: A very likely scenario. [[spoiler: Jessie's aunt removes her contraceptive implant and commits what is essentially suicide by having vaginal intercourse with a man.]]

Sixteen year old Jessie Lamb lives in a world where pregnancy means certain death. Everyone on the planet earth is infected with a disease, the so called Maternal Death Syndrome, that breaks out as soon as a woman gets pregnant, and then slowly destroys her brain. This has been going on for some months, and Jessie and her peers have been given hormonal contraception implants to protect them. However, when her father, a scientist, tells her that they found a vaccine for the disease, and can vaccinate frozen fetuses that have been stored for IVF before the disease spread, Jessie decides to volunteer to get implanted with such a fetus - which would mean her certain death, and the potential survival of a baby. Her parents are not happy, and even her father, who lauded the volunteers as heroines, is, suddenly, not so happy that his own daughter wants to sacrifice her life.

!! Tropes:

* WellIntentionedExtremist: The feminist extremist group FLAME are extremist only in theory (they believe MDS to be an intentionally engineered disease with which misogynists intend to kill women), but in practice just stand around in front of clinics, either protecting the researchers from other extremist groups (there are religious extremists who are against science), or preventing girls from going inside to get themselves killed by letting the scientists implant a fetus into their womb. The fights against other extremists occasionally get violent, but when Jessie wants to get past the FLAME activists guarding the clinic, she gets past them with a lie, and they even wish her a nice day.

* CozyCatastrophe: There is the theoretical possibility that mankind will cease to exist, but it is not very threatening for women who can avoid to get pregnant, and not at all threatening for men.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: The feminist extremist group FLAME are extremist only in theory (they believe MDS to be an intentionally engineered disease with which misogynists intend to kill women), but in practice just stand around in front of clinics, either protecting the researchers from other extremist groups (there are religious extremists who are against science), or preventing girls from going inside to get themselves killed by letting the scientists implant a fetus into their womb. The fights against other extremists occasionally get violent, but when Jessie wants to get past the FLAME activists guarding the clinic, she gets past them with a lie, and they even wish her a nice day.

Sixteen year old Jessie Lamb lives in a world where pregnancy means certain death. Everyone on the planet earth is infected with a disease, the so called Maternal Death Syndrome, that breaks out as soon as a woman gets pregnant, and then slowly destroys her brain. This has been going on for some months, and Jessie and her peers have been given hormonal contraception implants to protect them.
However, when her father, a scientist, tells her that they found a vaccine for the disease, and can vaccinate frozen fetuses that have been stored for IVF before the disease spread, Jessie decides to volunteer to get implanted with such a fetus - which would mean her certain death, and the potential survival of a baby.
Her parents are not happy, and even her father who lauded the volunteers as heroines is, suddenly, not so happy that his own daughter wants to sacrifice her life.

* TheKindnapper: Jessie's father kidnaps her so that she cannot get herself killed.

* CoolAunt: Jessie's aunt is one of those at the beginning; a single woman who works in theatre, and encourages Jessie to try out the lighting equipment herself.
* HeroicSacrifice: What Jessie thinks she is intending to do. One could also consider it a TooDumbToLive, though.
* MessianicArchetype: Jessie Lamb ... interesting name, is it not? And she intends to sacrifice her life so that mankind can live. (She is just one of many, but the only one we get to see who has a life worth living.)

Sixteen year old Jessie Lamb lives in a world where pregnancy means certain death. Everyone on the planet earth is infected with a disease, the so called Mother Death Syndrome, that breaks out as soon as a woman gets pregnant, and then slowly destroys her brain. This has been going on for some months, and Jessie and her peers have been given hormonal contraception implants to protect them.

* CozyApocalypse: There is the theoretical possibility that mankind will cease to exist, but it is not very threatening for women who can avoid to get pregnant, and not at all threatening for men.

* CosyApocalypse: There is the theoretical possibility that mankind will cease to exist, but it is not very threatening for women who can avoid to get pregnant, and not at all threatening for men.