The Handmaid's Tale - What's Come True and What Hasn't (Yet)

As the shock of the supreme court overturning Roe v. Wade spread through the US, many turned to comparisons to The Handmaid’s Tale. The horrific dystopian series based on Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel about fertile women being turned into child-bearing slaves struck a nerve when it started airing in 2017, as the election of Donald Trump suddenly made the story feel a little less far-fetched. But a few years later, The Handmaid’s Tale's brutal, medieval-feeling Republic of Gilead seems downright possible here in the USA – and a lot sooner than we could’ve ever imagined.

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00:00 The many ways Handmaid's Tale is feeling more real than ever
01:18 Forcing women to carry pregnancies
03:16 Challenging LGBT rights
04:20 The storming of the Capitol
04:58 A theocratic inner circle of male power
06:04 Stealing children from parents
07:02 The fertility crisis
08:25 Imprisoning "immoral" women
09:10 Withholding property ownership rights
09:59 Restricting who can read and what can be read
10:49 Using high-profile women to legitimize anti-women agendas
11:50 So what can we do about all of this?