Crossposted on Newsbusters.
Feminist author Margaret Atwood, on the November 11, 2014 edition of PBS's Charlie Rose show, accused pro-lifers of chaining pregnant women to their bed to force them to have babies they don’t want. Invited on the PBS show to plug her new book, The Stone Mattress, Rose asked why her 1985 book, The Handmaid’s Tale was still being promoted on the cover of her latest work.
Atwood explained: “The Handmaid’s Tale is having a big moment on social media and elsewhere because of the various states in the United States who’ve enacted some quite strange legislation having to do with pregnant women.”
The PBS host and co-anchor of CBS This Morning wondered: “Like what?
Atwood responded: “Like if you are pregnant and you are even suspected of possibly not wanting your baby you can be arrested and chained up to your hospital bed until you have the baby. Tennessee has just enacted legislation like that. Texas has got it. A number of them have it. And it’s all right-to-life stuff.”
