What is a mother? A woman who gives labor to a child, for one, but there is more to the equation, for example: a person who cares for a newborn, who raises the child, and who child considers their mother. When women become pregnant, they are faced with decisions and choices that, depending on their environment, they may not have a say in. Which begs the question: do women have a choice when it comes to procreation? Essentially, women within dystopian and utopian literature do not have the choice to (or not to) become pregnant because without them, the future of their collective communities would be compromised. When Charlotte Gilman wrote Herland in the late 1970’s, America was fighting for equality…