Author Margaret Atwood shows 60 Minutes the folders of research and news clippings she collected to substantiate her plots. She writes by a strict rule: if it didn’t happen, somewhere, at some time, it doesn’t make it into the pages of her fiction. She showed 60 Minutes an article that helped inspire her novel “The Handmaid’s Tale.” It reads: “Women forced to have babies… Persistent non-pregnancy will be considered a crime against the state.” In Atwood’s dystopian book, a dwindling number of fertile women are forced to cloak themselves in red and bear children for the elite. #margaretatwood #history #handsmaidstale #toronto