Yes it's hyperbole, but it is a statement worth listening to that's about more than women's rights. These commenters have not seen or given much thought to what is really going on in the Handmaids Tale. It is not a stretch to imagine a future in which horrific environmental pollution reduces birth rates and turns nations into closed off mutually-hostile garrison states where (esp women's) rights are gone. When we have totally trashed the planet we will get sick and turn on each other and will cease to be prosperous and free. As in the past, religion will be used as justification to control people. Christians are no innately better than people of any other religions, and presented with the awful circumstances in the Middle East would be just as bloodthirsty and cruel. While Pence and the Focus on the Family nutjobs are focusing on end days because of Jesus' second coming, they should be focusing on the more probable end days they are hastening by their own greed and shortsightedness.