women wore Handmaid's Tale robes in the Texas Senate

[HAB911]

On the Texas Senate floor Monday, about a dozen women protested an abortion ban by dressing up as characters from The Handmaid’s Tale, a dystopian novel in which women have no rights and are routinely forced to give birth against their will.

The bill that the women were protesting passed the Texas state Senate on Monday, and now moves to the state House. If the bill becomes law, it will effectively ban second-trimester abortions in Texas — or force doctors to use riskier methods to perform them.

The bill would do this by banning the safest and most common method of performing an abortion in the second trimester, dilation and evacuation (D&E). This procedure is used in about 95 percent of second-trimester abortions in the US. Texas doctors who violate the ban would face felony charges.

http://www.vox.com/identities/2017/3/21/15000098/handmaids-tale-texas-abortion-ban

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[tanyev]

1. That is just brilliant.

It got coverage on local news up here in the DFW area, along with an explanation of the costumes and a brief explanation of the plot of the novel.