“Handmaids in Atwood’s universe, for example, are only allowed to have sex when they’re being forced to by their masters, whose children they’re then supposed to carry. Here, in real America, women can have sex with more or less whomever they want — or not — and the restrictions cover only what happens next, which is exactly what Republicans eager for harsher rules seize on to argue that it’s ridiculous to suggest women can’t “choose.”
Maybe the point of the protests is that limiting reproductive freedom necessarily ends up limiting sexual freedom by pushing women toward abstinence, so the right to choose in one area isn’t worth much without the right to choose in the other. (Incidentally, that’s what made actress Alyssa Milano’s proposed “sex strike” so absurdly counterproductive.) But a cape and a bonnet will have trouble making that case without some help.”
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THIS AUTHOR GETS IT!!
Well, she half gets it at least.
She thinks that the EVIL REPUBLICANS are the ones trying to limit her “sexual freedom” by forcing her to accept consequences of recreational sex.
In actually, it is a LOVING GOD who instituted those consequences, to encourage us to enjoy our human sexuality in a responsible way. Republicans just accept that and act accordingly, while Democrats rebel and act insensibly.