Congratulations, you're pregnant!

It is one thing to hate some physical part of yourself that you cannot change, but what if your parents, rather than fate, were responsible for it? Would you hate them for it? Or would you love that physical part of yourself because you knew it was specifically chosen for you, designed out of love? Would you resent your parents if they chose not to do certain modifications?

Would you love your children as much if the designer genes you paid so much for did not come out the way you had anticipated? Would you feel guilty if you did not pay for certain cosmetic genetic modifications? Would you feel pressure to get the latest, greatest, and most expensive modifications for your children, knowing it might affect their self-esteem and self-worth?

Would children of this era judge each other for their parents' choices? Would the children with the most expensive modifications be seen as better or worthier than those whose parents either could not afford them or chose not to get them? Would children in such a time be more or less prone to bullying each other over appearances, knowing that physical appearance was entirely due to choices parents made?

What would pregnancy look like in an era of designer babies? What additional pressures would there be on parents to pay for cosmetic modifications, knowing it was up to them to determine the health and appearance of their children?

While in the waiting room for an in utero procedure, Franchesca ponders the concept of genetic editing, what it says about one's status in The Sectors, and where she fits in.

This is Deleted Scene from the Unexpected Inlander series.