{"id":1445167,"date":"2022-04-19T07:30:09","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T11:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1445167"},"modified":"2022-04-19T07:30:22","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T11:30:22","slug":"joy-reid-says-pro-life-push-against-abortion-is-just-like-some-scary-tv-show-she-watched-on-hulu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joy-reid-says-pro-life-push-against-abortion-is-just-like-some-scary-tv-show-she-watched-on-hulu\/","title":{"rendered":"Joy Reid Says Pro-Life Push Against Abortion Is Just Like Some Scary TV Show She Watched on Hulu"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjoy-reid-says-pro-life-push-against-abortion-is-just-like-some-scary-tv-show-she-watched-on-hulu%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1445167&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"speechkit-wrapper\" class=\"speechkit-wrapper\">\n<p><span class=\"label-bg\">NEW<\/span>You can now listen to Fox News articles!\n  <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"speakable\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/msnbc-silent-joy-reid-controversial-bizarre-media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MSNBC<\/a> host <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/msnbc-joy-reid-gop-hates-biden-vp-the-black-president\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joy Reid<\/a> has been relying on fiction to stoke her real-life fears about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/elections\/republicans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Republican<\/a> efforts to limit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/judiciary\/abortion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">abortion<\/a> access.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">On Thursday&#8217;s installment of &#8220;The ReidOut,&#8221; Reid kicked off her show with an opening monologue about the GOP&#8217;s &#8220;all-out war on women,&#8221; listing legislation being passed at the state level like Florida&#8217;s new law banning abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy as well as Oklahoma&#8217;s law making it illegal to perform abortions at all. Reid decried the likely outcome of a legal challenge to any pro-life bill that reaches the 6-3 conservative-controlled Supreme Court, which is that it will overturn Roe v. Wade.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/msnbc-silent-joy-reid-controversial-bizarre-media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>MSNBC SILENT AS JOY REID CONTINUES PATTERN OF CONTROVERSIAL AND BIZARRE REMARKS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is just no telling what happens once that right is gone and tens of millions of American women wake up in Gilead with their pregnant bodies as state property, rape and incest victims having to risk their lives to have abortions, teenagers and young women saddled with the huge cost of raising children they never planned to have or didn\u2019t want to have, with their red states saying, \u2018Well, that\u2019s your problem now.\u2019&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Gilead, as Reid referenced, is the fictional totalitarian government regime in &#8220;The Handmaid&#8217;s Tale,&#8221; the famous 1985 novel by Margaret Atwood that was adapted into a popular award-winning TV series on Hulu.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The dystopian story takes place following a post-civil war America where fertile women, the &#8220;Handmaids,&#8221; are forced to bear children.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/640\/320\/Hand-Maids-Tale.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"\" The Handmaid \/>(Hulu)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Reid&#8217;s Twitter feed is flooded with posts referring to &#8220;The Handmaid&#8217;s Tale&#8221; and &#8220;Gilead,&#8221; six of them so far in April alone.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A reminder that you don\u2019t have to give in to Gilead. You don\u2019t just have to let yourself or your sisters or your daughters become state property. You don\u2019t have to stand by and let rape and incest victims be turned into criminals for not wanting to be \u2018vessels.\u2019 You can vote,&#8221; Reid tweeted last Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Despite the image-battered SCOTUS getting a serious upgrade soon with the popular, brilliant judge Jackson, American women are poised to lose abortion rights (and if Republicans have their way, the right to contraception too). Gilead is coming, y\u2019all\u2026&#8221; Reid warned earlier this month.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/msnbc-joy-reid-republicans-pro-rape-pro-child-marriage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>MSNBC&#8217;S JOY REID CALLS REPUBLICANS THE &#8216;PRO-RAPE, PRO CHILD MARRIAGE PARTY&#8217;<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Florida at this point is basically Gilead with palm trees and bikinis. Wake up, people,&#8221; she wrote in March. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>During the Trump presidency, the anti-Trump &#8220;Resistance&#8221; appropriated the imagery from &#8220;The Handmaid&#8217;s Tale&#8221; in protests to suggest the U.S. was becoming Gilead under the prior administration.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, Reid&#8217;s references to the hit Hulu series on her MSNBC show have only ratcheted up during the Biden administration, according to Grabien transcripts, when discussing GOP-backed legislation in red states across the country.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/640\/320\/AP20285609558367.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"Activists opposed to the confirmation of President Donald Trump&#039;s Supreme Court nominee, Judge Amy Coney Barrett, are dressed as characters from \" The Handmaid \/>(AP Photo\/J. Scott Applewhite)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In September, Reid warned her viewers, &#8220;By next summer, we could be living in our own version of &#8216;The Handmaid&#8217;s Tale&#8217; where forced birth is the law in large sections of the country, including for children.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The subject of &#8220;The Handmaid&#8217;s Tale&#8221; came up later in the same broadcast during an interview with Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People think it\u2019s hyperbolic when I tweet about \u2018The Handmaid\u2019s Tale\u2019 coming to America, but I don&#8217;t think it seems hyperbolic now. Does it to you?&#8221; Reid asked, to which Warren agreed it&#8217;s not hyperbolic.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/joy-reid-comparison-republican-voters-al-qaeda-after-calling-party-pro-rape\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>JOY REID DRAWS COMPARISON BETWEEN REPUBLICAN VOTERS AND AL QAEDA AFTER CALLING PARTY &#8216;PRO-RAPE&#8217;<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Days later, she declared Texas the &#8220;&#8216;Handmaid&#8217;s Tale&#8217; state&#8221; after it passed a law banning abortion after six weeks of pregnancy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Reid offered a rallying cry for women, saying in another broadcast, &#8220;People are not going to lay down for this. Sorry, but women will not go into Gilead without a fight. And I don\u2019t think that Republicans understand how hard women are willing to fight for their liberty and their freedom to remain free people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/640\/320\/Joy-Reid-GETTY-2.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"MSNBC host Joy Reid. (Photo by Theo Wargo\/Getty Images for Global Citizen)\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n      MSNBC host Joy Reid. (Photo by Theo Wargo\/Getty Images for Global Citizen)<br \/>\n      <span class=\"copyright\">(Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In January, when the Supreme Court declined to halt Texas&#8217;s abortion law, Reid declared the U.S. as &#8220;one step closer to Gilead. In March she accused Missouri Republicans of wanting to go &#8220;full Gilead&#8221; for their abortion bill. Earlier this month, she referred to GOP lawmakers in Oklahoma as &#8220;the Republicans of Gilead.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/foxnews.onelink.me\/xLDS?pid=AppArticleLink&#038;af_dp=foxnewsaf%3A%2F%2F&#038;af_web_dp=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fapps-products\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The only instance where Reid mentioned &#8220;The Handmaid&#8217;s Tale&#8221; and it wasn&#8217;t about Republicans was in August 2021 when she invoked it during a discussion of Taliban-controlled Afghanistan during the Biden administration&#8217;s chaotic military withdrawal from the war-torn country.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! 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