Doonesbury on abortion

Published March 12, 2012 | By Owen Barder

This Doonesbury cartoon is causing some American newspapers either not to run the series, or to move them to the op-ed pages.

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One Response to Doonesbury on abortion

Heather Marquette says:

March 19, 2012 at 7:30 pm

Nice share! I wonder if the large ‘A’ on the back of the clipboard is supposed to represent ‘The Scarlett Letter’?

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