Missouri Protesters Dress as Handmaids from The Handmaid’s Tale to Protest Pro-life Measures

Town Hall - Lauretta Brown



Many in the media and the feminist movement seem to think that we are living in Margaret Atwood’s dystopian 1985 novel The Handmaid’s Tale, judging by the amount of comparisons to Trump’s America that have been cropping up.



A chilling thought indeed given that Atwood’s republic of Gilead is a brutal theocratic regime where fertile women are forced to be “handmaids” or sex slaves to powerful men.



A group of protesters in Missouri really took the comparison to heart and marched through the Missouri Capitol Wednesday dressed in handmaids’ costumes holding signs reading “Don’t let Missouri become Gilead” to protest a pro-life budget amendment which would bar the Missouri Women’s State Funded Health Services Program from covering care at clinics that offer abortion.



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