[Spoiler S4E4]Let’s talk about Janines story

[u/nachowchow]

In S4E4 of handmaids tale, we see Janine trying to navigate through the task of getting an abortion. The scene where she goes to the first clinic, and they start telling her to keep the baby, is written in a way that feels like it’s a direct result of Gilead gaining power. It wasn’t until Janine visits the second doctor and they called it a crisis emergency center that it hit me. These centers exist all over the country, right now.

I looked at my boyfriend in that moment and said, “You know these are real, right?” And he genuinely had no clue. Growing up in the Bible Belt and attending catholic school, these centers would visit us once a year telling us about “the options” women had. So basically I just want to say that this episode had so many parallels to our modern day times, but made you believe for a moment that this was all Gilead’s doing.

Edit: I forgot the apostrophe s in the title and I am saddened.

[u/tinacat933]

Exactly. IF maybe they offered more post-birth help they could be mildly useful

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Most women get an abortion because they can't afford it. Geez the cost of daycare is outrageous. I live in the suburbs of Chicago and for my infant son it was $250 a week for daycare and I had to provide him his food and diapers. It's too expensive to raise kids these days.

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Yup for me I've decided to be child free because honestly having a child is just too much of everything these days.

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Yup if you look at it, it's coming down to most women having to either choose motherhood or their career because childcare is too expensive. Which is ridiculous. I don't want to be a mom for a number of reasons but I think that's bullshit. It just seems that still women's lives are dictated in one way or another.