Monday, March 12, 2012

Doonesbury

Starting Monday, amid heated debate about pre-termination ultrasound and sonogram bills in Virginia and Texas, [Doonesbury creator Garry] Trudeau, whose comic strip has about 1,400 clients, will tackle the politically sensitive issue of abortion head-on.

“To ignore it,” Trudeau told The Washington Post, “would have been comedy malpractice.”

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”Texas’s HB-15 [bill] isn’t hard to explain: The bill says that in order for a woman to obtain a perfectly legal medical procedure, she is first compelled by law to endure a vaginal probe with a hard, plastic 10-inch wand [Doonesbury's “shaming wand”]. The World Health Organization defines rape as “physically forced or otherwise coerced penetration — even if slight — of the vulva or anus, using a penis, other body parts or an object.” You tell me the difference.

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Roe v. Wade was decided while I was still in school. Planned Parenthood was embraced by both parties. Contraception was on its way to being used by 99 percent of American women. I thought reproductive rights was a settled issue.”

  WaPo
Not as long as there's a Christian right breath to be taken and a political or media whore to encourage it.

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