 What will happen if Anne becomes pregnant?
Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] "A small child is an imbecile. If I don't want to follow my aptitudes, the only choice is common labor. "They assigned me to it because I liked babies. With its population legally fixed at three hundred million, most of the country had become one big suburb, dotted with community centers and lined with narrow belts of industrial development. "Whose child are you, Rorry?" he asked. You will immediately begin a systematic and thorough survey of all animals whose serial numbers fall in the Bermuda-K-99 series for birth dates during July 2234. Seize all animals in this category, impound, and run proper sections of normalcy tests. This could be a ruse to bring a stop to investigations when one animal is found. If allowed to reach age-set or adulthood, such a deviant could be dangerous to its owner or to others. Its replacement-quota of new neutroids was around three hundred animals a month. He tried to estimate how many of July's influx had been K-99s from Bermuda Factory. He wadded the memo in his pocket, then nosed the truck onto the highway and headed toward Wylo City and the district wholesale offices of Anthropos, Inc. They should be able to give him a list of all July's Bermuda K-99 serial numbers that had entered his territory, together with the retailers to whom the animals had been sold. A week's deadline for finding and testing forty neutroids would put him in a tight squeeze. "The baby turned out to be a neutroid. Of course, no hospital would play along with her fantasy and take a neutroid, especially since she couldn't pay for its treatment." You're welcome to it, Doctor, but you can't fake a serial number. And even though they look exactly alike, the new one won't recognize her. Only thirty-five of July's Bermuda-K-99s had entered his territory, and they were about equally divided among five pet shops, three of which were in Wylo City. As soon as he hung up, Anne touched his shoulders and said, "Sit still." He neglected to tell her that he had stopped at twelve for just this reason. They were sexually neuter and never grew beyond a predetermined age-set which varied for each series. Age-sets were available from one to ten years human equivalent. Once a neutroid reached its age-set, it remained at the set's child-development level until death.
 Anne and Terry will be forced to divorce, and they will be given a hysterectomy and a vasectomy, respectively.
 Anne and Terry will be arrested and sterilized.  Anne and Terry will be executed.  Anne and Terry will be arrested, and Anne will be forced to abort the pregnancy.  Anne and Terry will be forced to divorce, and they will be given a hysterectomy and a vasectomy, respectively.