'Handmaid's Tale' author compares Roe's fall to Salem witch trials

The author wrote in an op-ed published to The Atlantic that the draft would become 'the newly settled law.'

"The Salem witchcraft trials were trials—they had judges and juries—but they accepted 'spectral evidence,' in the belief that a witch could send her double, or specter, out into the world to do mischief. Thus, if you were sound asleep in bed, with many witnesses, but someone reported you supposedly doing sinister things to a cow several miles away, you were guilty of witchcraft.

is overturned."If Justice Alito wants you to be governed by the laws of the 17th century, you should take a close look at that century. Is that when you want to live?" she asked.

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