So my #prolife friends who haven't read #TheHandmaidTale have a better idea about the slippery slope some people in the US think we're on after the #DobbsDecision, in the novel Serena Joy was a public figure who helped bring about a theocracy ruled by men, in which 1/5
homosexual and premarital sex were punishable by death, and women weren't allowed to read or write and couldn't have their own money so they'd be dependent on men. Because Serena and her husband haven't been able to have children, they are allowed a Handmaid, 2/5
a woman who has somehow "sinned" against the theocracy and is known to be fertile. The Handmaids are ritually raped by the men to whom they are assigned in order to get them pregnant as surrogates for the infertile wives. 3/5
Some people think that pro-life women are like Serena Joy, who did not see her own loss of autonomy coming. These people think that banning abortion will lead to women's rights perhaps being set back over a century 4/5
to when women couldn't vote or even further back when married women couldn't own property. These people don't see that society has advanced to desire equal rights for all human beings and it follows that the lives of prenatal humans should be protected 5/5 rd.com/list/things-wo…
P.S. They also don't realize that the #prolife movement is quite diverse and very few in it desire a theocracy or even agree on much aside from wanting to protect the lives of all innocent human beings. Also, the first feminists were anti-abortion.
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