Towards the end of her op-ed, Atwood addressed readers about how they can choose to act in case Roe v. Revenge and spite charges will proliferate, as did arraignments for witchcraft 500 years ago," she said. "The mere fact of a miscarriage, or a claim by a disgruntled former partner, will easily brand you a murderer. You had no way of proving otherwise," Atwood explained, adding that "it will be very difficult to disprove a false accusation of abortion." Thus, if you were sound asleep in bed, with many witnesses, but someone reported you supposedly doing sinister things to a cow several miles away, you were guilty of witchcraft. "The Salem witchcraft trials were trials-they had judges and juries-but they accepted 'spectral evidence,' in the belief that a witch could send her double, or specter, out into the world to do mischief. The Handmaid's Tale is a fiction novel that was published in 1985, which explored issues related to power, religion, and gender-rights as it focuses on women who are controlled and the different ways they seek to gain power and freedom under a totalitarian regime in the Republic of Gilead. But it relies on English jurisprudence from the 17th century, a time when a belief in witchcraft caused the death of many innocent people." "The Alito opinion purports to be based on America's Constitution. In adherence to it, the Puritans hanged Quakers," she wrote. "Massachusetts had an official religion in the 17th century. Wade is overturned by the Supreme Court where Justice Samuel Alito's draft would become "the newly settled law."
would establish a "state religion" if Roe v.
In an op-ed published in The Atlantic on Friday, the author noted that the U.S. Wade to the Salem witch trials and prosecutions of suspected witchcraft that occurred in the 17th century. Margaret Atwood, who is the author of The Handmaid's Tale, compared the potential fall of Roe v.
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