Several newspapers pull Doonsebury strip about Texas vaginal ultrasound law:

In a move that is not exactly the most surprising of moves, several newspapers have pulled the syndicated comicDoonesbury from its funny pages for the next week because its creator, Gary Trudeau, will be tackling the issue of yet another state law (this time in Texas) requiring women to undergo a transvaginal ultrasound before getting an abortion. While some papers will run old Doonesburystrips during the duration of the story, one paper has agreed to run the new strip online while running reprints in the actual newspaper. They cited “different audience expectations” for print vs. online. Uh huh.

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According to Bleeding Cool, the strip will lampoon the Texas anti-choice law every day next week and will follow a woman who is trying to procure an abortion, receiving guidance from a Republican lawmaker. At some point, the woman is asked to sit in the “shaming room” and, as can be seen in the panel above, welcomed on behalf of Texas Governor (and former presidential candidate) Rick Perry. Hey, they got themselves involved, and now they might as well be in the shaming room with us.

Apparently only 20-30 papers (of the 1400 or so who run Doonesbury) will be replacing this series, but that’s still 20-30 papers who need to get over themselves asap.