Posted on 03/20/2017 3:16:37 PM PDT by EdnaMode
On Monday, the Texas Senate considered several abortion-related bills, including Senate Bill 415, a bill that would effectively ban a safe and common procedure used for second trimester abortions, which anti-choice legislators have taken to calling a dismemberment abortion ban. It passed and will now head to the House.
The Senate also inched forward with Senate Bill 25 ― the bill that would effectively allow doctors to lie to pregnant women if they detect a fetal anomaly and are concerned their patient might have an abortion ― and that will head for a final vote on the floor soon.
But in the Senate chambers on Monday, a group of Texas women were having none of it.
Activists headed to the Texas Senate chambers decked out in full red robes, in homage to characters in The Handmaids Tale, Margaret Atwoods classic (and suddenly distressingly relevant) feminist tome.
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I guess it’s better than furry vaginas, but those stupid twats don’t speak for a majority of women. They’ve never spoken for me.
Ahh ... looking at that picture, I wouldn’t select any of those women to contribute to the genetics of my children...not a single one of them.
Is it wrong that I burst out laughing at them?
Send them to Saudi Arabia and let them feel what it’s really like.
It is the penultimate example of liberal secularists looking at Christians of fear of a potential theocracy rising up to oppress everyone and create what Islam has done repeatedly in the modern world from ISIS to the Taliban to Boko Haram to Iran to Saudi Arabia.
I laughed, too!
That one on the left would bring good money by the pound.
Ain’t nobody gone breed her anyway, however much she might wish.
Like or hate her, Atwood did her homework.
i can find much of the stuff she wrote about in "extremists" of every persuasion from the World Council of Churches, to Milo Yianniopoulos, to Pat Robertson, et. al.
We don't notice it because those people are NOT in power.
However, Margaret Atwood DID recognise that not all religious --specifically Christian people-- were following the government line in her book. You see constant reference in both the book and film adaptation to "Southern Baptist Guerillas" attacking government installations and forces.
i really don't care for where Atwood took the book at the end. The characters sounded too much like present day snowflakes to me. However she was correct in that such a tyranny would collapse of it's own weight rather than foreign invasion.
Margaret Atwood is an overrated self-important blowhard with the writing talent of a blind shrew.
I remember having to read some of her drivel in high school.
Droning on and on about G_d only knows what for pages.
I read about 1/3 of the book (I can’t even remember the title) and quit the class.
In college they kept trying to force me to read this book in various classes. I can get through things I don’t agree with, I finished the Koran for example. But this book is just so boring I don’t think I ever got past 50 pages.
The critics have screened the first three episodes and are raving about it. But I think it’s more to do with the political agenda than anything else.
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