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Women in ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ Costumes Protest Ohio Abortion Bill

The group attended a committee hearing at the Statehouse on Tuesday while wearing red capes and white bonnets.

'Handmaid's Tale' Protest: Women in Show-Inspired Costumes Protest Ohio Abortion Bill

Activists dressed as characters from "The Handmaid's Tale" gather in the Texas Capitol Rotunda as they protest SB8, a bill that would require health care facilities, including hospitals and abortion clinics, to bury or cremate any fetal remains whether from abortion, miscarriage or stillbirth, and they would be banned from donating aborted fetal tissue to medical researchers, Tuesday, May 23, 2017, in Austin. 

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More than a dozen women have staged a protest against a proposed ban on Ohio’s most common abortion procedure while dressed in character from the dystopian novel and Hulu series The Handmaid’s Tale.

The group attended a committee hearing at the Statehouse on Tuesday while wearing red capes and white bonnets. The costumes resemble those worn in the series based on Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel, in which women are forced to give birth.

They were fighting legislation criminalizing what anti-abortion activists call “dismemberment abortion.” The medical term is dilation and evacuation.

The bill would prohibit doctors from using forceps or similar instruments on a live fetus to remove it from the womb in pieces. Seven states have such bans.

Similar costumed protests to anti-abortion bills have taken place elsewhere, including in Texas and Missouri.

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