Michael de Adder toon: "It rubs the lotion on its skin" (abortion ban)

[Nevilledog]

[Hekate]

1. Who is the poodle at his heels?

And what is the lotion reference?

Otherwise, spot on.

[Geechie]

2. A scene from "Silence of the Lambs"

[fantase56]

3. Movie reference from Silence of the Lambs

[canetoad]

5. I think that's

A bichon frise.

[calimary]

4. So we have to think of ways to get around it.

Overt AND covert.

By any means necessary.

[Larissa]

6. The use of "it" is dehumanizing

The "it" -- the women -- will be tracked and followed. The fiction becomes real in this Republic of Gilead, USA. The U.S. Supreme Court has given states the authorization to command all wombs.

From Wiki:

'The Handmaid's Tale is a futuristic dystopian novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, published in 1985. It is set in a near-future New England, in a strongly patriarchal, white supremacist, totalitarian theonomic/theocratic state, known as the Republic of Gilead, which has overthrown the United States government. The central character and narrator is a woman named Offred, one of the "handmaids" — a group of women who are forcibly assigned to produce children for the "commanders" — the ruling class of men in Gilead.

The novel explores themes of subjugated women in a patriarchal society, loss of female agency and individuality, suppression of women's reproductive rights, and the various means by which women resist and attempt to gain individuality and independence.'