Margaret Atwood: ‘The Supreme Court wants to enforce 17th century laws’

In the early 1980s, I embarked on writing a science fiction novel about a future in which the United States had broken up. Part of the country was now a theocratic dictatorship based on the religious doctrine and jurisprudence of Puritan New England in the 17th century. I had set the scene in the vicinity … Read more

Abortion. Margaret Atwood: “The Supreme Court wants to enforce laws from the 17th century”

In the early 1980s, I embarked on writing a science fiction novel about a future in which the United States had broken up. Part of the country was now a theocratic dictatorship based on the religious doctrine and jurisprudence of Puritan New England in the 17and century. I had set the scene in the vicinity … Read more