Assertion: handmaid's wife | /r/HasProperty | infertile
Facets:
value: generally
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: In biblical times, it was legitimate to use a handmaid as a surrogate mother, particularly if the wife was infertile.
text: Standing (somewhat) faithfully behind (not next to) their husbands who rank as Commanders, the Wives are generally infertile women tasked with expanding the population of Gilead through the help of an assigned handmaid.
text: In Gilead, Handmaids are fertile women, who are supposed to be impregnated by Commanders or Angels whose Wives are infertile, thus providing them with children.
text: In response to plummeting birth rates across North America, fertile women are strictly policed, being enslaved as Handmaids who bear the children of high-ranking men (whose own wives are infertile) – one of which is our protagonist Offred.