Monday, September 18, 2017

I have not seen, nor read, The Handmaid's Tale: I don't watch, or read, hysterical female/feminist trash fiction.

But I gather that it, the book and the movie, does/do, obliquely, touch on something that we all must face up to eventually as a civilization:  That not all women who are merely physically capable of having children should have children; nor should the option of having children be determined solely by women themselves; although they, of course, should, in all fairness, each and and every one, be allowed freely to choose not to get pregnant [contrary to the premise of this stupid book and dumbass movie].  But once those few women, who are both mentally and physically fit to bear children, have, with the proper supervision and support of the society they live in, got themselves pregnant, there ought not to be any termination of the pregnancy before the child is born (completely gestated), for any other reason than to preserve the life of the mother.  In a word, no abortion of a pregnancy ought to be allowed for any frivolous reason, or simply because the prospective mother has changed her mind, or no longer loves the sperm donor.  Because, you see, women do not wholly own the fetuses they bear in their wombs: For--such is the miracle of life that--fetuses at least half own themselves.

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