{"id":1556748,"date":"2022-07-15T16:04:41","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T20:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1556748"},"modified":"2022-07-15T16:04:45","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T20:04:45","slug":"pro-abortion-group-pleads-with-activists-to-stop-referencing-handmaids-tale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pro-abortion-group-pleads-with-activists-to-stop-referencing-handmaids-tale\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-Abortion Group Pleads With Activists To Stop Referencing \u2018Handmaid\u2019s Tale\u2019"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fpro-abortion-group-pleads-with-activists-to-stop-referencing-handmaids-tale%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=1556748&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>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/\">Latest News<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">&#8220;Handmaid&#8217;s Tale references turn a blind eye to the centuries of oppression people of color &#8230; have faced&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\"><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tProtester wearing a Handmaid&#8217;s Tale costume, via Reuters.\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/robert-schmad\/\" title=\"Posts by Robert Schmad\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Robert Schmad<\/a> \u2022 July 15, 2022 3:50 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span>A pro-abortion activist group is urging protesters to quit making references to <em>The Handmaid&#8217;s<\/em> <em>Tale<\/em>, arguing allusions to the book are insensitive to the oppression of minorities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can&#8217;t wear people&#8217;s real oppression as a costume. Throw the red cloaks away,&#8221; REPRO Rising Virginia <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/REPRORising_VA\/status\/1547656317019402242?s=20&#038;t=88nqDfWUp1FbWseua2NYqQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> Thursday. &#8220;Handmaid&#8217;s Tale references turn a blind eye to the centuries of oppression people of color, specifically Black, brown, and indigenous women, have faced regarding their reproductive rights.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">5. You can&#8217;t wear people&#8217;s real oppression as a costume. Throw the red cloaks away.<\/p>\n<p>Handmaid&#8217;s Tale references turn a blind eye to the centuries of oppression people of color, specifically Black, brown, and indigenous women, have faced regarding their reproductive rights. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZHvK1lK8rV\">pic.twitter.com\/ZHvK1lK8rV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 REPRO Rising Virginia (@REPRORising_VA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/REPRORising_VA\/status\/1547656317019402242?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 14, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Margaret Atwood&#8217;s<em> The Handmaid\u2019s Tale,<\/em> a dystopian novel written in 1985, depicts a future in which women have been enslaved by a theocratic government in the United States. Abortion activists have long used the book as a symbol of their movement supporting unrestricted elective abortions, often dressing up in the red costumes donned by the novel\u2019s protagonists.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>REPRO Rising Virginia also urges activists to swap references to &#8220;women&#8221; for &#8220;people&#8221; on protest signs to avoid excluding transgender people.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;It is exclusionary to only center cisgender women in pro-abortion messaging,&#8221; the group said. &#8220;Not all people who can get pregnant identify as women.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Since the Supreme Court overturned<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><i><span>Roe<\/span><\/i><span> v<\/span><span>.<\/span><i><span> Wade <\/span><\/i><span>last month<\/span><span>, abortion activists have <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/06\/27\/us\/supreme-court-overturns-roe-v-wade-monday\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>mobilized<\/span><\/a><span> across the country to protest the ruling. Despite their efforts, very few Americans list abortion as their top issue. In a June Gallup poll, only 1 percent of respondents <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/1675\/most-important-problem.aspx\"><span>cited<\/span><\/a><span> abortion as the most important issue facing the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>REPRO Rising Virginia rebranded earlier this year after the national lobbying organization NARAL Pro-Choice America disbanded its state chapters to better pursue federal advocacy. The group <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.virginiamercury.com\/2022\/06\/09\/one-of-virginias-biggest-pro-choice-advocacy-groups-is-preparing-for-a-post-roe-future\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>told<\/span><\/a> <i><span>Virginia Mercury<\/span><\/i><span> that they are pivoting to focus on providing transportation to abortion appointments and opening new clinics.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latest News &#8220;Handmaid&#8217;s Tale references turn a blind eye to the centuries of oppression people of color &#8230; have faced&#8221;  Protester wearing a Handmaid&#8217;s Tale costume, via<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1556748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1556748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1556748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1556748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1556748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}