Posted on 05/08/2022 9:57:05 PM PDT by Morgana
Celebrated author Margaret Atwood says ‘enforced childbirth is slavery’ in response to the leaked draft decision from the Supreme Court that could potentially overturn the Roe v. Wade.
Atwood, 82, has seen her seminal work The Handmaid's Tale - and the recent TV adaptation - become oft-cited by liberals warning of the consequences of conservative policies on social issues. Activists will often dress like characters from the show at protests.
In an edited extract from her new book Burning Questions published in The Guardian Sunday, Atwood made the point that anti-abortion laws could force women to choose 'illegal' forms of abortion.
'Nobody likes abortion, even when safe and legal,' she wrote. 'It’s not what any woman would choose for a happy time on Saturday night. But nobody likes women bleeding to death on the bathroom floor from illegal abortions either. What to do?'
She then goes on to say that abortion is a matter of choice and freedom and that the restrictions placed on the practice would leave half the population 'enslaved.'
'Women who cannot make their own decisions about whether or not to have babies are enslaved because the state claims ownership of their bodies and the right to dictate the use to which their bodies must be put,' she wrote.
She argued that the only similar consequence for men would be a reinstallation of mandatory military service, though she points out that they at least are given provisions throughout their service.
Atwood was also critical of America's maternal healthcare system, wondering why Washington might force women to have babies, but not offer complimentary prenatal care, postnatal care and social programs to help raise children.
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As Aunt Lydia said (in your book) it's their fault they got pregnant. Don't want a baby? Don't have sex!
I betcha she was peachy keen about forcing the shot on women, though.
Give them a penny and tell them to hold it between their knees if they don’t want to get pregnant. It works every time. Especially for female feminazi authors.
Oh and Atwood when Roe is over turned? To quote Aunt Lydia again...
“’Ordinary,’ said Aunt Lydia, ‘is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary’”
Well, if they don’t want to risk the consequences of a pregnancy, they could keep it zipped. At least that’s what they tell men.
Only women get a right to a sex life, AND escape hatch. Men don’t.
Use a darn condom pinhead.
You can even get it for free.
“wondering why Washington might force women to have babies, “
What idiocy. “Washington” isn’t forcing anyone to do anything. “Washington” is (apparently) heading in the direction of enforcing the Constitution of the United States as written and returning this issue to the states where it belongs.
They hate the one unique thing about themselves.
When did women ever have the right to murder unborn babies?
Actually they still can, they just want to hire someone to do it for them?
When did they ever have the right to demand someone else murder the unborn baby they don’t want?
I saw someone dressed in red with a white thing on their head when I was driving earlier today.
I may or may not disagree, but I applaud their peaceful exercise of expression
Women have so many birth control options more than ever before, plus the morning after pill. You’d think after hearing how responsible and smart women are, and how on top of it all women are, they’d never have an unplanned pregnancy.
If forcing the men to pay child support for 18 years likewise SLAVERY, Ms. Atwood?
Regards,
And when they get their period, they can find free sanitary napkins and tampons in the boys bathroom.
Hardly. Birthing a child is the fulfilling of a contract with a man and God.
That’s right! Offing them is so much more convenient.
I’m curious, there are also a lot of children who, after they’re born, become unwanted and inconvenient - should they be aborted as well?
The whole pro-abortion position is to have the freedom to proudly act irresponsibly and not pay the consequences, even at the cost of an innocent human life.
For them it’s all about what’s convenient and expeditious.
I’m going to go watch the movie “The VelociPastor”. The prostitute in that movie makes more sense than these morons.
Leftists have to use logical fallacies, because if they argue purely on the merits - they lose.
82? She should be more concerned about how she’s going to explain her book to God.
True. Does Atwood think it is 'slavery' to expect men to pay support for children they father?
Utter bs. There are birth control pills for both men and women.
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