Following the overturning of Roe v Wade, people on social media have continued comparing real life today to Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel, The Handmaid’s Tale.
On 24 June, the United States Supreme Court’s ruling eliminated the constitutional right to abortion in the country, leaving it up to the states to determine whether to ban the procedure or not. The ban could potentially force women and girls to carry pregnancies to term, since the court’s conversative supermajority dismissed rulings from 1973 law.
