Join Opinion on Facebook and follow updates on /roomfordebate. I hope you’ll join me in trying to give the real-life version of this dystopia a happy one. Check us out, so I don’t have to yell quite so much.Įven if you’re not familiar with the story, I don't think it spoils it to say that in its various film versions, 'The Body Snatchers' has been made with both ominous and hopeful endings. But that’s the task I took on when I founded Lady Parts Justice and Lady Parts Justice League, dedicated to exposing the pod people who are hell bent on rolling back reproductive rights.

It’s not easy being the freaked-out person, running around trying to warn everyone about the loss of control of their bodies and lives. He’s shouting, “Can’t you see? They’re after you. There’s a famous scene near the end of the original 1956 “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” where a frantic lead character is in the roadway, running among the cars trying to alert people to the danger. Add to that their relentless, insidious barrage of laws pushing medical quackery to redefine when human life actually begins, and incitement of wannabe heroes who violently target Planned Parenthoods and independent clinics, and you’ll see - the alien pod people have nothing over our homegrown ones. The suspense of the film lies in discovering, along with Miles, the central character (played by Kevin McCarthy), who is 'real' and who is not, and whether Miles and Becky (played by Dana Wynter) will escape the pod takeover. The laws they have enacted have left 87 percent of the counties in this country without an abortion provider, and make access to reproductive services hopelessly difficult. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) is a low-budget science fiction film that has become a classic. These political pod people have coordinated a full “body snatching” assault, passing hundreds of burdensome laws designed to take bodily autonomy away from the people they are supposed to represent. It’s scary enough in fiction, but even in 2015, modern day “body snatchers” in state legislatures and Congress are trying to take over women's bodies and insinuate themselves into our most personal decision making. It’s scary enough in fiction, but even in 2015, modern day “body snatchers” in state legislatures and Congress are trying to take over women's bodies.

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