Clay Bennett for October 30, 2022

In Margaret Atwood’s dystopian nightmare, The Handmaid’s Tale, women who test positive for fertility are transported in trucks marked “LIVESTOCK” to serve as birth surrogates (“handmaids,” aka BROOD MARES) for elite women who have been made infertile by all the pollution in the water.

The fact that Alito referred to the need to provide a “domestic supply of infants … available to be adopted” (his exact words, from page 34 of the decision in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization) shows their real purpose: they want to force poor women to become BROOD MARES for the rich to provide a domestic supply chain for women wanting to adopt. (Note: Betsy DeVos runs a for-profit adoption service, Bethany Christian services.) This is not about forcing ten-year-old girls to raise babies they are unprepared for. Sure, they would force a ten-year-old to bear a child, but they would never let her keep it. They would give it to someone “more deserving.”

Not a coincidence that Amy Coney Barrett is active in the Indiana-based conservative Catholic charismatic cult “People of Praise” in which the highest level to which women can attain is “handmaid,” which she achieved. “People of Praise” is kind of like a female counterpart of the ultra-conservative, dogmatic cult “Opus Dei” for men. The cult was one of the models used by Atwood in constructing her story (technically, Atwood’s model was the New Jersey-based charismatic Catholic cult affiliate “People of Hope”). After The Handmaid’s Tale became popular, the cult changed that title from “handmaid” to “woman leader.”

The fact that Alito cites (page 17) as authorities two 17th century British judges (Matthew Hale and Edward Coke) who sentenced women to death as accused witches and argued that husbands have a right to rape their wives (property) demonstrates the mentality we are dealing with here.

It’s not a legal requirement. Yet. But it’s certainly something that the “christian taliban” WILL institute if they get the power to do so.

If the QOP grabs power with their greedy little fists, this will be true.

It’s not a costume It is an American dystopian television HBO max series (and that was the end of the commercial).

With regards to those theocrats and the Nat. C’s who want to see a nation of Brood Mares I believe what we have here is a failure to excommunicate

It also reminds me of Hester Prynne from “The Scarlet Letter”. There only needs to be the letter “A” on her chest.

When women are forced to bear children they cannot raise, the infants will go to for-profit orphanages where they are minimally “educated” (a little reading and math and a distorted version of religion) before being trained as servants in various roles. They will get “jobs” at age 16 or so, as they are hired out by the for-profit employment agency. DeVos has her work cut out for her.

Well, I guess I was wrong. I posted on another cartoon that I hadn’t seen many Reich-wing posters today. I assumed that most of them were just smart enough to realize that it would be awfully stupid to post right after the attack by one of their brethren on Pelosi’s husband the other day. Yes, I was wrong, they are indeed that stupid, and nasty.

There are more women voters in the US than male voters. So if women want to send an unmistakable message by electing candidates that support women’s rights, they can. Voter’s under 30 are powerful if they show up.

I will vote Blue on November 8. I believe reproduction decisions belong to the women involved, not local political figures.

Or, to put it another way, Democrats believe women should make their own decisions, and Republicans want to take that right away.

Accurate description and presentation of horrible facts.

The GQP uses the Federalist Society to identify, groom and promote conservative justices into the federal system and onto the Supreme Court. A more than interesting fact is that six are practicing Catholics while Gorsuch became an Episcopalian. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States#Catholic_justices

Nice. Even nicer than usual. Vote Blue on 11/8.

Same thing a lot of “local public officials” think! When everyone gets to vote, choice and women’s health care are protected.

Yes, it is a political stunt.