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(47,953 posts) Sun Mar 11, 2012, 08:42 AM Mar 2012

The Doonesbury Interview on WaPo

THE ‘DOONESBURY’ INTERVIEW: Garry Trudeau says to ignore abortion-law debate would have been ‘comedy malpractice’
By Michael Cavna

ONLY ONCE IN the long history of “Doonesbury” has Garry Trudeau’s syndicate ever intensely objected to one of his story arcs. It was 1985, a documentary purporting to show the reactions of a fetus had been released, and Trudeau satirized the film “The Silent Scream” with his own “prequel” strips featuring “little Timmy,” a 12-minute-old embryo.

Those strips never saw wide release in newspapers.

“At that time, we thought the merits of the week would get lost in the larger discussion of abortion,” Lee Salem, president of Universal UClick (“Doonesbury’s” syndicate) tells Comic Riffs. Trudeau and Universal agreed to pull the strips.

Now, however, amid heated debate about pre-termination ultrasound laws, Trudeau has decided to take on the abortion debate head-on for the first time in “Doonesbury’s” four decades.

“To ignore it,” Trudeau tells Comic Riffs, “would have been comedy malpractice.”

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The cowards are exposed. geckosfeet Mar 2012 #1

Thanks for posting. Doonesbury is on my favorites bar Scuba Mar 2012 #2

geckosfeet

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1. The cowards are exposed.

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Sun Mar 11, 2012, 08:51 AM

Mar 2012

They are running scared and pulling out the stops - censoring and curtailing the first amendment.

Yeah I know, it's their ball and they can take it and go home with it anytime they want. But it is curious how the media don't worry about using questionably sourced hearsay about undercover cia personnel (the Plame incident) and exposing them and national interests to harm, but fear a cartoon.

Weak kneed lily livered coward media that folds at the first sign of a fight.

on edit: I have not bought a paper in years. Guess why.

Scuba

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2. Thanks for posting. Doonesbury is on my favorites bar

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Sun Mar 11, 2012, 09:01 AM

Mar 2012

"Texas's HB-15 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. 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. Who knew we had turned into a nation of sluts?

link to Doonesbury online.

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