Not the same
The Handmaid’s Tale star Elisabeth Moss encouraged pro-abortion protesters this week to keep comparing the United States to the show’s dystopian society in which fertile women are chattel.
The Emmy-winning Hulu show, based on Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel, depicts a society devastated by low fertility rates brought on by unspecified environmental damage. A theocratic patriarchy overthrows the U.S. government and conscripts the remaining fertile women—handmaids distinguished by red cloaks and white, face-shielding bonnets—to bear the children of the wealthy.
Pro-abortion demonstrators began donning handmaid costumes at protests soon after the show premiered. Last month, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris of California compared Alabama to The Handmaid’s Tale after it passed a law to make abortion illegal at all stages of pregnancy. (The law makes abortion a criminal act for abortionists, not women.)
“It’s an apt comparison,” Moss said Wednesday on the ABC talk show The View.
But the pro-abortion movement has more in common with the evil dictators in The Handmaid’s Tale than its supporters admit. The story’s villains treat babies as property as much as the handmaids who bear them. In Gilead, the tale’s fictional post-America dystopia, handmaids have children not because children are good and a gift but because the barren wives of the upper class want them. Prams, onesies, and cribs are status symbols in Gilead, where there’s no respect for the bond between mother and child. The wealthy steal the children of the poor and then cast aside the mothers.
In contrast, pro-life pregnancy centers work to nurture the bond between mother and child. Babies are respected for their inherent dignity and worth, and women are told they do not have to be rich to be a good mother. True, neither pro-lifers nor the evil lords of Gilead want women to have abortions, but for very different reasons. One group wants children born free and placed in the loving arms of their mothers, while the other wants children born only to serve the desires of the powerful. The pro-abortion movement says that whether a child lives or dies depends not on that child’s worth, but on the decision of someone more powerful—an argument well-suited for Gilead. —Lynde Langdon
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Nanamiro
Posted: Fri, 06/07/2019 06:33 pmIn reference to Grooming Children: All I can say is, "Love Is Love!"
RC
Posted: Mon, 06/10/2019 03:20 pmHitler and his Nazis loved killing Jews, so love is love, so that O.K. according to you?
John Cogan
Posted: Fri, 06/07/2019 11:12 pmThe line between age-gap romance and pedophilia is a fuzzy one at best. It will not be until it's too late that we will realize it has been crossed.
not silent
Posted: Sat, 06/08/2019 11:18 amAll due respect, John, but I don't understand how the line between age-gap romance and pedophilia is fuzzy. Pedophilia is not technically a legal term (it refers to the sexual obesession with children and is often considered a mental illness), but MOLESTATION and SEXUAL ABUSE are crimes which are clearly defined in the legal system. A "romance," by definition is a love affair; so, if a pedophile keeps his or her feelings to himself or herself and does not act on them, it's not a romance. If he or she acts on them, it's molestation.
THIS is why I feel such despair right now. Even though society has become more and more accepting of things that used to be considered taboo, so far it has been willing to protect children. It's one thing to allow consenting adults to do things that may be harmful for them, but it's quite another thing if society won't protect children from adults.
Narissara
Posted: Mon, 06/10/2019 07:12 pmnotsilent, I agree. If society won’t protect children, then children have to somehow protect themselves. And they can’t. That’s why parents have historically had the right and the responsibility to look out for them. But normalizing pedophilia would change all that. And then the burden of proving whether a relationship between a child and an adult was consensual or came about through coercion and manipulation would fall on the child. If they’ve been groomed, how are they supposed to be able to distinguish the difference?! And who’s going to have more power and credibility — not to mention money for attorney fees — to influence the court in their favor?
not silent
Posted: Sat, 06/08/2019 12:09 amWhen I read the article about age gap romances, I felt like I had been stabbed in the heart. Although abusers may try to pass off "grooming" as love (heck, they deliberately try to make it seem like love so that the victim remains ensnared!), it brings lasting harm. It doesn't just hurt young children, either. I know of one high school kid who was seduced by his teacher, and it casued so much pain he attempted suicide.
Incidentally, it is classic for an abuser to blame the victim-i.e, "I didn't know that Beth was getting these thoughts and that she wanted me to be her happy man forever sort of thing." Even if she WAS the first to develop those thoughts, he was the ADULT!
There have been people trying to say that pedophilia didn't cause harm since at least the 1990's, but I know a lot of people who experienced it and EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM felt some level of trauma. There's a reason why molestation is a crime in the US. I am going to have to pray really hard for God to show me how to react in a way that pleases him because right now I mostly feel despair.
VISTA48
Posted: Sat, 06/08/2019 12:14 pmPart of the problem with the LGBTQ agenda is how they push - quite effectively - the narrative that sex and love are the same thing. They are not. The fact that there is such a thing as rape proves that. From another angle, wouldn't it also mean that we would want to have sex with everyone we love? No, sex was ordained by God to be between a man and a woman within the bonds of marriage, with the added blessing of fruitful multiplication. Anything else is a perversion, and the second that the definition of marriage was altered, the door was open for every other perversion. This will be near impossible to reverse, just as satan would have it.
JerryM
Posted: Sat, 06/08/2019 07:36 pm"From another angle, wouldn't it also mean that we would want to have sex with everyone we love?"
This story and your argument conjurs up thoughts of Sodom and Gommorah and the fall of Rome. When is "love" actually just lust? More and more we see people fall in lust (not "fall in love") with each other. We are seeing more and more the actions and fruits of life in the flesh.
VolunteerBB
Posted: Sun, 06/09/2019 02:07 amThe NAMBLA (North American Man/Boy Love Association) is alive and well.
Ann Marshall
Posted: Sun, 06/09/2019 04:33 pmThe relationship Beth Telford had with her father: what was it like? Her having an interest in a 44 year old man suggests her father wasn't all he ought to have been to his daughter. Teenagers need to *have* a relationship with their parents; adults need to be *in* relationships with other adults.
gndgirl
Posted: Wed, 06/12/2019 04:24 pmYour artical states that pedophile perpretraters are increasingly embraced as part of the LGBTQ movement. Could you provide documentation for that statement? I think it's important to document statements like that. Thanks!
Web Editor
Posted: Wed, 06/12/2019 06:46 pmTwo examples follow the statement in the article.