"This book is about CHOICE. Choice is the Soul of Liberty. Choice is the Heart of our Democracy. Choice is the bane of autocrats, of theocrats. Forty-nine years ago, the Supreme Court recognized Choice as a fundamental liberty. Autocrats and theocrats have been fighting back ever since. With the overturn of Roe v. Wade, they think they have won. B Cubed Press, in celebration of forty-nine years of Choice, introduces forty-nine stories to show that Choice cannot be eradicated. It emerges stronger. People demand Choice, not just in reproductive rights, but in our lives. So enjoy these forty-nine uplifting works from Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, Jane Yolen, Jim Wright, Adam-Troy Castro, Samantha Bryant, and more. Fighting back against the theocratic and political hacks that form the conservative majority of the Supreme Court and have used their bench like a pulpit to force their views on America with the overturning of Roe v. Wade. This book pokes the bear on this subject with stories of women and men doing the right thing and fighting back. Stories of running from Texas bounty hunters, painful descriptions of the consequences of no more health care clinics, to individual and group rebellion against unbelievable odds. All of these stories inspired by SCOTUS in pursuit of their goal to appease a truculent religious minority and the politicians they vote for. These are stories of fighting back, not just fading into oblivion. Of having the audacity to show courage. When Kansas, in all its red conservative glory, rebuked this assault on Human Rights, I and many of us rejoiced. It exposed the effort to end reproductive rights, to force pregnancy on children, rape victims, and unwilling mothers as the objective of the few to dominate the many. And we are many. We are those who believe that the sanctity of our bodies is our own and not the playground of those who would make us extensions of their religious fervor. We put this book together because it is up to all of us to speak