U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy's retirement announcement was greeted by comparisons to The Handmaid's Tale

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"Okay yes I love the Handmaids Tale - that doesn’t mean I want to live in it," tweeted Whitney Cummings in reaction to Kennedy's retirement news. "Handmaid's Tale season finale spoiler alert," added TV critic Hank Stuever. "For many on Wednesday, the answer (to the news) was obvious: we'll be in Gilead, the misogynistic nightmare future America of Margaret Atwood's classic The Handmaid's Tale," says Chris Taylor, pointing to the likelihood that President Trump's next Supreme Court pick will help make abortion illegal in many red states. Taylor adds: "No one, least of all (Margaret) Atwood, can pretend to predict the future. But that also means we can't pretend to know that a Gilead-like repressive patriarchal state isn't in our future, and we certainly can't call the threat over-hyped. The only thing we can reasonably do is fight like hell at every possible juncture to prevent the warning from becoming reality."

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