Doonesbury, abortion and censorship: Our Bodies, Our Blog
Printer-friendly versionThis week saw freedom of speech censored across America over the issue of abortion rights. Gary Trudeau’s comic strip Doonesbury deals this week with the Texas’ new legislation that forces women seeking an abortion to first undergo a transvaginal ultrasound. The column also refers to the fact that Rush Limbaugh last week called a law student at Georgetown University who testified before the congressional committee on birth control a “slut”.
Not to have dealt with these issues would have amounted to “comedy malpractice”, Trudeau has said.
Several newspapers have pulled the column.
Read about this censorship, and about the issue of enforced transvaginal ultrasound and other attacks on reproductive freedom, in this week’s Our Bodies, Our Blog: Doonesbury Starts Week-Long Abortion Storyline.
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