'The Handmaid’s Tale' Is Coming to Life

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4.8 • 616 Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2017

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Jess and Imani talk with Rewire's Jenn Stanley and Sofia Resnick about their new audio documentary, "Marching Toward Gilead: The Rise of American Theocracy." This two-part documentary dives deep on Operation Save America (OSA), an organization committed to a theocratic vision of America, and reveals the alarming ways OSA’s fundamentalist far-right ideology has wormed its way into state and federal government. Jess and Imani also unpack the key laws involved, including the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act and the concept of "justifiable homicide."

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0:00.0	Hello, fellow law nerds.
0:09.9	Welcome to another episode of Boom Lawyered, a rewire radio podcast hosted by the legal
0:15.1	journalism team that is joining the war on Christmas by wishing everyone a happy holidays
0:19.8	and that's it. I'm Imani Gandy.
0:22.9	And I'm Jess Peeclose. Happy holidays and that's it. Rewire. News is dedicated to bringing you
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1:03.9	So this episode, we're going to talk about the Handmaid's Tale Come to Life.
1:08.6	Marching toward Gilead is a rewire radio documentary about the
1:12.0	Radical Christian Activist Group, Operation Save America. And these folks are terrible. They are terrible.
1:19.5	So bad. They've got this dystopian worldview that includes recriminalizing abortion,
1:24.9	basically ignoring any law they don't agree with, and even a rising
1:28.7	political influence with Trump. Plus, their name, it's the stuff of nightmares. Their name is about
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