The Republican right doesn’t plan to stop at contraception. The ultimate goal is to maximize political power, and as the hierarchy of the Catholic church can tell you, putting artificially narrow limits on sexuality (while allowing officials to violate and/or cover up such abuses) is a powerful way to gain control over the lives of ordinary people.

This is why the Republican right pretend to be concerned about who uses what bathroom (when in reality one is more likely to be accosted by a Republican lawmaker in a bathroom than by a transsexual).

This is why the Republican right sought to defend sodomy laws that punished married couples from engaging in consensual oral sex in their own homes, while others of their ilk deny the harm of non-consensual marital rape.

This is why the Republican right, who don’t care a whit for the plight of oppressed minorities tie their anti-abortion campaigns to the rhetoric of civil rights. Barry Loudermilk, who as Georgia state senator sponsored the “abortion is genocide” bill mentioned in this article is now in the U. S. House seeking to defund Planned Parenthood and sitting on the Science and Technology Committee.

This is how Republican right evangelicals can so conveniently ignore Trump’s “Grab ’em” advice.

The Handmaid’s Tale is just Chapter 1.