Late in May, the president imposed a gag order on health-care providers who work in clinics that receive federal funding. The new rule “strictly limits the circumstances under which a health provider could advise a woman about abortion options,” according to the New York Times, and comes “straight out of The Handmaid’s Tale,” according to Planned Parenthood.
Trump’s decision is one of several recent assaults on women’s rights, and it’s hard to think of a better group of people to talk about these issues than Leni Zumas (author of the dystopian feminist novel Red Clocks), Tiffany Hankins of NARAL Pro-Choice Washington, and Megan Burbank of the Seattle Times. Burbank will moderate the conversation following a reading of Zumas’s book, which Burbank lauds for “showing the reality of being biologically capable of making a person, and how that’s something burdensome and complicated and sometimes great but ultimately too nuanced and personal to ever be understood by the vast majority of the people trying to legislate it.”
