The Handmaid's Tale: Part 10

I'm torn on how to think about the writing of this chapter. On the one hand, it would be insulting to Margaret Atwood to claim that this scene came from her just recording something that happened to her or someone she knows. On the other hand, Atwood has been clear that, at least in historical terms, she made sure that everything that happened in the recent history of her novel had real-world precedent.

And there's that I can't imagine that this didn't happen in the real world at least frequently enough that Atwood would have hear about multiple accounts. Being written in the 1980s, this was still a world where requiring a woman to be your gynocologist would be a relatively new thing on its own, that possibility being relatively new itself.
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