Of all the idiocy going in 2018 (and there’s a lot of it), this Handmaid’s Tale idiocy has got to rank at or near the top. The effort to imagine a society in which abortion is illegal as some kind of weird, futuristic totalitarian dystopia is so asinine, I don’t know where to begin. Let’s consider a real society where abortion was illegal... like most of the U.S.A. circa 1965. It’s crazy that some of these fools think that the idea of protecting the unborn with murder is so outlandish that they associate it with a futuristic dystopia rather the reality was the illegal abortion actually existed in the not-so-long-ago, not-so bad past.
Ironically, I just read the book and that is not my take at all. It seemed more to me like it was a remake of the communist manifesto.
The book actually did give a reason that abortion was illegal. There was a lack of fertile women and most pregnancies ended in miscarriages. When babies are a scarce and precious resource then killing one just because is unthinkable.
The TV show which does not even follow the threadbare line of reasoning in the book is apparently just plain stupid.