The point isn’t if anyone hates Trump. He had a lot to say about how to treat women, including what he does to random women, he was still voted in as president, It is very timely. You can’t spend so much time disagreeing with opinions about subjects you don’t understand.

No there isn’t. If it’s not your body it’s not your choice. There are no ifs or buts about this.

It’s an old excuse to say “it doesn’t happen round here so it doesn’t happen” You are not statistically relevant.

In the novel, the political situation arises due to extremist religious right wingers who take over the government and severely restrict women’s rights. In reality, we have extremist religious right wingers who have taken over the government and fight every day to severely restrict women’s rights. The only person…

The book was published in 1985 and it was timely then and it’s timely now. The religious right have gained and lost power over the years, but America is still a deeply Puritan country. Laws are still passed whose SOLE purpose is to punish women for having abortions.

What makes it scary is that this is ABSOLUTELY a future that some (more than we want to admit to ourselves I suspect) Americans would accept. Accept, and even welcome with open arms. It’s abhorrent and wrong to you and me, but not everyone.

Hitler wasn’t Hitler before turning into Hitler, you know.

Before Hitler took power, there were probably people like you saying someone like Hitler could never come into political power in a modern westernized nation.

Well, there are pretty consistent and increasingly accepted encroachments on women’s agency and rights; the continual creep of abortion and birth control limitations, the erasure of discrimination protections against pregnant women in NC (part of the ‘bathroom law’ everyone is talking about), the weird feitishization…

I personally think it has been timely before 2017, but Mike Pence - a theocrat who has been quoted as saying he refuses to eat dinner alone with any woman other than his wife (whom he calls Mother) is now second to the seat of our nation’s power. He is literally saying that he can’t see women as anything other than…

I think there are a lot of abuses people will take and adapt to so long as they are doled out in pieces. Do I think there will be some kind of terrorist incident that will throw the nation into chaos and allow a theocratic government to take over? No.

When that ‘single example’ has his hands on the lever of government and is actively attempting to force his views on everyone under his sway, that make resistance a touch easier. If your ‘single example’ is such a minority, why is he the one the voters put in charge? And why does he obviously have no fear of losing…

The swift turn towards christian theology as a form of governance and an excuse to oppress women is all too real, even before Trump.

Well the show didn’t come out during Obama’s presidency, so it wouldn’t make much sense to talk about it then. There very likely were people making the comparison many times since the book came out, but it wasn’t new and had less reach.

I don’t think a future in which old men are fighting to tell women what they can’t do what their bodies and people take it seriously is the sort of future any sane, decent American would ever accept.

A legislative panel of five men just buried a law that would allow women in Maryland to terminate the PARENTAL RIGHTS of their RAPISTS. As in a man who rapes a woman in Maryland has legal rights to the fetus that may come about as a consequence of him forcing himself inside of her body. This is the 9th time they’ve…

Not really. The core issue is and will always be, should other people have a say about what a woman does with her body.

Abortion isn’t a black and white debate, but there are a great many folks who treat it as such and allow no possibility of middle ground. Think of the lawmakers who are trying to outlaw abortion even in cases of rape/incest.* You put enough of those types of people in power — as we are apparently trying to do — and…

Re: other rights, I’d assume that the list would include the cost/pricing of birth control, the abortion-related details of doctors being allowed to legally lie to their patients, transvaginal ultrasounds, etc.

All the passed laws relieving women of their reproductive rights says otherwise.