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Margaret Atwood poses with ‘I told you so’ mug as US Supreme Court overturns abortion rights-Rachael O'Connor-Entertainment – Metro
She said the mug was ‘appropriately sloganed.’
Author Margaret Atwood wrote dystopian novel The Handmaid’s Tale and its sequel The Testaments (Picture: Getty Images)
Margaret Atwood has posted a cryptic photograph of herself with an ‘I told you so’ mug after the United States Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade.
The author is best-known for her dystopian novel The Handmaid’s Tale, which is set in a patriarchal, white-supremacist world where women’s rights have been ripped away.
Last month, the United States Supreme Court voted to overturn Roe V Wade, which in 1973 had promised a woman’s right to an abortion across all 50 states.
The overturning, which now allows individual states to determine their own laws on abortion, was made possible by three conservative judges appointed by former president Donald Trump.
Some states have already introduced a blanket ban on abortion unless the pregnant person’s life is in immediate danger, and in Ohio, a 10-year-old girl who was raped was forced to travel to Indiana for an abortion.
Now Margaret appears to have reacted to the new laws as she posed for a photo holding a mug bearing the words: ‘I told you so.’
The author posed, smiling, with the mug, in an apparent reaction to the US Supreme Court overturning abortion rights (Picture: Margaret E Atwood/Twitter)
Alongside the photo, the Canadian author wrote: ‘In Nova Scotia with appropriately sloganed coffee mug.’
The writer’s quip didn’t exactly go down well with everyone, with one Twitter user writing angrily: ‘My impending doom is not your viral tweet.’
Another accused: ‘You’ve said openly, numerous times, that everything that happened in The Handmaid’s Tale had happened IRL (in real life) somewhere before.
‘So how can you say YOU are the one who told us, and not the Black, Indigenous, queer, etc women whose suffering informed your writing?’
Others defended her, with one user responding to the above by saying: ‘She’s not saying no one else said this, just that she said this. It’s written on a coffee cup, you can’t put an effing essay on it.’
While Roe v Wade has been overturned, US president Joe Biden has signed an executive order aimed at protecting access to reproductive health service.
Margaret has been a vocal fighter of women’s rights for decades (Picture: Getty Images)
It seeks to safeguard access to medication abortion and emergency contraception, as well as protect patient privacy and boost legal options for women seeking abortions.
The Democrat formally instructed the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services to push back on any efforts to stop women from using federally approved abortion medication and to travel to other states for abortion services.
There is no presidential action that can restore the constitutional right to abortion, and Biden has acknowledged that he has limited power to expand abortion access.
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He called on Americans to elect more Congress members in the November midterm elections who will back federal legislation to protect abortion access.
‘It is my hope that women will turn out to reclaim the rights that have been taken from them by the court,’ he said.
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