See it here: the Doonesbury Abortion Strip banned in 55+ papers

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[+7] - Region Philbis - 03/14/2012 saved for prosperity... [img]http://i1176.photobucket.com/albums/x336/RegionPhilbis/DoonesburyAbortionStrip1.jpg[/img]...
[+5] - Sturgis - 03/15/2012I've been reading Doonesbury on an off for years. There are times where Trudeau has a topic going which interests me and seems on target, other times, I just can't get interested. The...
[+4] - edgarblythe - 03/15/2012[IMG]http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ucomics.com/doo120315.gif[/IMG]
[+3] - Joe Nation - 03/14/2012Topical humor is not necessarily editorial comment. Rush Limbaugh thinks what he does is both. Joe(but it's not either)Nation

I follow the strip on Yahoo comics.

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@edgarblythe,

Edgar you are so 21st Century!

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I don't follow every storyline in the strip, but when he gets on a good track, he is a must read.

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My paper is one of the ones that is not running it so I've been reading it online as well. I'd heard that all the strips had been leaked but my regular place to read it had the leak plugged so thanks for posting them all, edgar.

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The shaming wand.

Covered with a condom to remind you of what you should have used, on top of your pills.

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@hingehead,

half size... still a bit too wide...

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I abhor this kind of censorship, but this really belongs on the editorial page - not in the comics.

I vaguely remember another one of his strips being moved to our local paper's editorial page years ago.

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@PUNKEY,

Topical humor is not necessarily editorial comment.

Rush Limbaugh thinks what he does is both.

Joe(but it's not either)Nation

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"I thee rape," though -- that's pretty strong stuff. I think I wouldn't mind my 11-year-old reading it, but she's been reading the comics when she get can her hands on them (we only get NYT daily delivery, no comics there) since she was six or so. I'm not sure I'd want to have that conversation with her at that age.

And there's a certain social compact that the comics (in a "family newspaper") are suitable for anyone who can read them. Double entendres are one thing, that's pretty blatant.

I salute Doonesbury for doing it anyway, but I think the removal is pretty predictable and even understandable. He's done this before to good effect -- probably gets a lot more views this way, but a different audience. So that works out fine.

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@hingehead,

Thank you Hingehead for dropping the link alongside with the strip images. Smile

If only these strips could actually convince anyone sitting in the middle of the road on the abortion issue as well as get those apathetic liberals to start kicking and screaming back to behind the political plate and start swinging at these horrid conservative pitches. (sorry for the horrible mixed analogies Confused

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@boomerang,

boomerang wrote:

My paper is one of the ones that is not running it so I've been reading it online as well. I'd heard that all the strips had been leaked but my regular place to read it had the leak plugged so thanks for posting them all, edgar.

Would you consider writing to your paper and complaining about their wrongheaded censorship Boomerang?

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@tsarstepan,

Who says there isn't lots of kicking and screaming going on?

There is around here.

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Doonesbury is the outstanding comic strip of my generation. I began reading it before it was syndicated in mainstream newspapers. Garry Trudeau started the strip when he was an undergraduate at Yale. My college newspaper and many other college newspapers carried all the early cartoons.

I buy book collections of the strip. The provide a chronicle of my generation.

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@tsarstepan,

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Would you consider writing to your paper and complaining about their wrongheaded censorship Boomerang?

They were very upfront about it, running an explanation of their decision on the front page and providing a link to where a person could read the strips. I was fine with that. In fact, I think it drew more attention to the comics than if they'd simply run them in their usual space.

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@sozobe,

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but I think the removal is pretty predictable and even understandable

Right wingers are doing this to women in a very very open manner using state power and therefore it should be freely and as openly discuss in or out of the comic pages.

This kind of war on women is going to affect your 11 years old in the near future so the main problem is hardly her reading about it.

If this is material fit for the state houses of this nation then it material fit for the comic section also.

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@sozobe,

sozobe wrote:

Who says there isn't lots of kicking and screaming going on?

There is around here.

If you mean by kicking and screaming around a2k and other similar online forums, then how much of this kind of protest do you think really effects policymakers like the US Congress, those of the individual state legislatures, etc...? I'd say that no one in the right position will be effected by what's said here.

I'm hoping for kicking and screaming that comes in the forms of letter writing campaigns to their respective congress members and letters to the editor and such.

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@boomerang,

boomerang wrote:

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Would you consider writing to your paper and complaining about their wrongheaded censorship Boomerang?

They were very upfront about it, running an explanation of their decision on the front page and providing a link to where a person could read the strips. I was fine with that. In fact, I think it drew more attention to the comics than if they'd simply run them in their usual space.

Good point. I can see the great benefit in that. Smile

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There was an aricle in Monday's Guardian about this.

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The strip, published on Monday and scheduled to run all week, has been rejected by several papers, while others said they were switching it from the comic section to the editorial page.

In an email exchange with the Guardian, Trudeau expressed dismay over the papers' decision but was unrepentant, describing as "appalling" and "insane" Republican state moves on women's healthcare.

About 1,400 newspapers, including the Guardian, take the Doonesbury cartoon. The Guardian newspaper is running the cartoon as normal on Monday.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/11/doonesbury-strip-texas-abortion-law?INTCMP=SRCH

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@tsarstepan,

No, "around here" was Columbus, Ohio.

I've participated in this and that, and it's been pretty effective thus far.

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