Prologue
The Plague. No one knows how it started. The only thing everyone knows that it desolated the world's human population and is continuing to do so. The Plague had wiped out the human races' fertility rates so dramatically there were pregnancy laws. After the Plague had hit and started wiping out the rate of successful births, the Pregnancy Act (PA) was enforced: any woman over the age of 18 was required to get pregnant as fast as possible and as much as possible. The method could be the old fashioned way or by artificial insemination (AI) from a donor with high fertility numbers and successful birth rates. The government known simply as The Order would pay for the AI if needed for a female unable to get pregnant within a 6 month period of time. The Order would also pay for any medical costs, housing, and nutrition for the woman/couple-even if not married or engaged for marriage. There are fertility treatments and testing for all humans that have undergone puberty and started on a fertility plan to increase the chances of fertilization once the female has become of age.
This is the law, the way of life for civilization after the Plague. If you were a female and tried resisting the Pregnancy Act, there were consequences if you were caught. Whether you didn't follow your fertility plan or try to become pregnant after turning 18, that's when you were located and brought in for completing the steps for the fertility plan or AI if no positive pregnancy test hasn't been reported within the 2 month period after your 18th birthday. If you didn't take your vitamins or anything included in your fertility plan by the doctors you were then brought into a boarding situation and/or supervised for your specific fertility plan. This included blood tests to make sure that every human was following the Plan, male and female both. With women and their different cycles they were given the drug called Timer. This drug was specifically engineered to every female's different cycle so that they never had their period on their birthday and instead they always had their peak ovulation time on their birthday and then this time frame was extended to last a week for optimal fertilization chances on their 18th birthday.
Due to the PA everyone has to have tests done for Sexual Diseases and Illnesses, and if you were a Carrier for the Plague then you were watched even closer and subjected to drug trials to see if the Carrier Gene could be wiped out and replaced with a sort of placebo Gene to make the body not pass it to offspring so there would be no chance of the Plague Genes in future generations. If your body did not take to the trial drugs and you had a chance of passing on the Plague Genes then you were given a sterility pill so that you could have no chance of becoming pregnant and reopening the gates for another Plague.