Why These Irish Women Staged A Protest Dressed In A Handmaid's Tale Costumes

Ending an unwanted pregnancy is banned in Ireland in virtually all circumstances -- an oppressive, draconian law and infringement of women's reproductive rights which has, perhaps unsurprisingly, been compared to The Handmaid's Tale. So, it was fitting that pro-choice campaigners channeled handmaids in a protest in Dublin on Wednesday. Women, clothed in the famous white bonnets and red cloaks, stood outside the Dáil, the country's parliament, as lawmakers met to discuss the Eighth Amendment, wh...