The Non Persons by Philip K Dick A PDF of Philip K. Dicks short stories, including one called The Non-Persons, is available here: http://www.octobot.net/library/Dick,%20Philip%20K/Dick,%20Philip%20K%20-%20The%20Eye%20of%20Sibyl%20and%20Other%20Stories.pdf One of the short stories in this compilation is The Non-Persons. I havent read it, but it was brought to my attention by someone who wrote an essay about a couple of doctors, one of them from Oxford, who were proslethyzing "after-birth abortions" - that is, babies who are actually born can be aborted for any reason - even if theyre perfectly healthy - because they dont become "persons" until theyre actually old enough to comprehend whats going on around them. (The article was called Oxfords Nazi Doctors - a misnomer: http://frontpagemag.com/2012/03/05/oxfords-nazi-scientists/) Now - I admit that that is bushwa! And I doubt if anyone except these two whackos would go along with this. (On the other hand, once a kid h...