Red clocks book review7/6/2023 ![]() “The Daughter” (Mattie), a star student that finds herself pregnant with nowhere to turn. ![]() ![]() There is “The Wife” (Susan), mother to two and married to one thoroughly ungrateful husband. In short, it bridges the gap between the now and Handmaid’s Tale the complacency that allowed such an amendment to be passed, the disregard of men who don’t understand or care about its effects, and how women continue to navigate being a person when their country may only see a womb, a red clock. In a small town in Oregon Red Clocks follows five women, young and old, living with old restrictions back in place. Abortion is completely criminalised, IVF banned, a ‘Pink Wall’ stands between America and Canada to arrest women seeking such procedures under the charge of conspiracy to murder, and in fifteen days unmarried persons will be prohibited from adopting. There has been no government takeover by an extreme Christo-conservative regime, merely the ‘Personhood Amendment’. ![]() In Red Clocks, Leni Zumas imagines just that. Ever since the signing of Roe vs Wade there has been people who’ve wanted to overturn it. ![]()
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