Margaret Atwood Slams Potential Overturn Of Roe v. Wade: “Enforced Childbirth Is Slavery”
) in the Republic of Gilead. Offred exists to serve her Commander and his infertile wife as a slave and incubator for the couples’ children who are conceived by rape.“If one chooses to have a baby, that is of course a different matter. The baby is a gift, given by life itself. But to be a gift a thing must be freely given and freely received. A gift can also be rejected. A gift that cannot be rejected is not a gift, but a symptom of tyranny,” Atwood added. “We say that women ‘give birth.
Atwood’s fictional handmaids have inspired women across the globe to protest against the patriarchy while wearing the character’s modesty costumes which feature blood-red cloaks and white bonnets.“No one is forcing women to have abortions. No one either should force them to undergo childbirth. Enforce childbirth if you wish but at least call that enforcing by what it is. It is slavery: the claim to own and control another’s body, and to profit by that claim,” Atwood concluded.
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