The Unwind Accord is an agreement ment to end the Heartland War. This made life inviolable from conception to the age of thirteen but allowed for the “retroactive abortion” of troubled teenagers. This, along with the Storking Initiative, constitute The Bill of Life. Other than resolving the war, the Unwind Accord was signed as an agreement to end the "terror generation" and their Teen Uprising, another result of the Heartland War.
The Unwind Accord states that life is inviolable from the moment of conception until age thirteen, which is when parents can have their child unwound, or aborted 'retroactively', until they are eighteen, later lowered to seventeen. With this concept is the belief that life doesn't technically end because the unwound child's body parts would still live on with the recipient/s. They call this the divided state.
There are, however, some ways or conditions to avoid and become exempted from Unwinding. Being pregnant can save an Unwind from being unwound for nine months. Unwinding a severely injured or disabled person is also against the law, probably because of the bad condition of their body. A clapper, having explosive chemicals in their blood stream, also cannot be unwound, since their body parts cannot be distributed or given to anybody, as the chemicals never really completely leave their system.