Suzanne Harrington: US patriarchy propelling women into nightmarish Handmaid’s Tale

The Supreme Court’s imminent attack on the fundamental rights of women will propel American women into a Handmaid's Tale. 

Suzanne Harrington: "If the US was in any way genuinely ‘pro-life’, it would start with gun control, so that children – the born ones – were not shot dead during their school day." Picture: Denis Scannell

Wow, America. Are you having some kind of breakdown? How else to explain your proposed lurch back to the 1950s, where men did as they liked and women did backstreet abortion?

Ploughing through the shock and fury at the Supreme Court’s imminent attack on the fundamental rights of women – from Kamila Harris’s repeated calls of “how dare they” to Roxanne Gay’s heartfelt essay, It’s Time To Rage, in the New York Times - perhaps the most resonant commentary comes from a Methodist pastor in Alabama called Dave Barnhart.