Former President Donald Trump’s vision for women is like something out of The Handmaid’s Tale, according to attorney Joyce Vance.
In her Substack newsletter, Vance, a former U.S. attorney in Alabama, made the comparison to Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel about a totalitarian patriarchy where women are forced to bear children for leaders.
It came after Trump shared a lengthy post on his Truth Social platform, saying that women would be better off if he wins the White House in November.
In the post on Friday night, the Republican nominee said women are poorer, less healthy and less safe than they were four years ago, when he was president and will be “HAPPY, HEALTHY, CONFIDENT AND FREE” if he wins a second term in November.
Donald Trump on September 21, 2024, in Wilmington, North Carolina. Joyce Vance said the former president’s vision for women is out of “The Handmaid’s Tale.”
Donald Trump on September 21, 2024, in Wilmington, North Carolina. Joyce Vance said the former president’s vision for women is out of “The Handmaid’s Tale.”
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Trump also said women would no longer have to think about abortion because limits to the procedure are left to the states after the Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade.
He has repeatedly taken credit for appointing the three Supreme Court justices who ended the constitutional right to an abortion two years ago, leading to a wave of bans and restrictions in Republican-led states.
But concerned that abortion has become a liability for Republicans, Trump has since sought to present himself as moderate on the issue by articulating his support for exceptions in cases of rape, incest and when the life of the mother is at risk.
His opponent in November, Vice President Kamala Harris, has made defending abortion rights central to her campaign and said that Trump would sign a national abortion ban if he wins a second term.
In his Truth Social post, Trump repeated the baseless claim that Democrats are demanding the execution of babies after birth, while saying that state abortion bans have “powerful exceptions.”
While state bans have exceptions to prevent the death of the mother and some have exceptions in cases of rape and incest, critics have warned they are vaguely defined and unworkable.
“I WILL PROTECT WOMEN AT A LEVEL NEVER SEEN BEFORE,” Trump concluded. “THEY WILL FINALLY BE HEALTHY, HOPEFUL, SAFE, AND SECURE. THEIR LIVES WILL BE HAPPY, BEAUTIFUL, AND GREAT AGAIN!”
In her Substack newsletter, Civil Discourse, Vance said Trump’s post is written “with all the fervor of a man envisioning a future that is part Stepford Wives and part The Handmaid’s Tale’ Trump: You will be happy. Your life will be beautiful. It will be that way because I say so. It is not up to you. That’s the future Donald Trump has in store for American women.”
She added that Trump “thinks women can be told that they are less confident about the future than they were four years ago and they will simply accept it.
“Women will get on Truth Social, read his post, and think, ‘I don’t need to worry anymore because Donald Trump will fix all of that.'”
She also noted that in his post, Trump “says in one breath that there are ‘powerful exceptions’ to his abortion bans while also saying that the status of a woman’s right to an abortion is up to her state.”
But many states, Vance noted, “don’t have exceptions for the mother’s health or have passed laws criminalizing abortion so doctors are afraid to provide care to women until it’s too late.”
She added that in some of those states, attorneys general “are threatening to prevent women from leaving the state to obtain abortion care or to prosecute them for doing so.”
Newsweek has contacted Vance and the Trump campaign for comment via email.
The Republican’s post is a “stark reminder of what it’s like to live in Donald Trump’s America,” Vance wrote in her newsletter.
“I’m sure you all remember it—waking up in the middle of the night to check Twitter [now X] for news of unfolding disasters. Had he praised a dictator, enacted a Muslim ban, separated children from their parents at the border, called white nationalists ‘decent people?’ What would be next? Don’t worry your pretty little heads about that, he’s telling women now.”
Noting that the election is just 45 days away, Vance concluded: “We all know the assignment. We are never ever getting back together with Donald Trump. Never ever.”
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