This is not for real. Doonesbury is not Blondie. Newspapers editors are worried about confusing an opinion with a comic? Do editors live on the same planet as everyone else?

MARCH 13, 2012 12:18AM 

So let's break this down. (click here) First, Jim Thompson, the Editorial Page editor for the Athens Banner-Herald, wrote Sunday in the "Editor's Corner" that he wouldn't be running the Doonesbury strip about the Texas ultrasound requirement because it would confuse his Georgia readers. Quote:

Given that the Georgia General Assembly is considering an abortion bill — House Bill 954, sponsored by Rep. Doug McKillip, R-Athens, which would prohibit abortions after the 20th week of pregnancy — I made a unilateral decision not to publish the “Doonesbury” strips intended for publication this week. Quite simply, I thought there was a real possibility that readers might confuse the topic of this week’s “Doonesbury” with Georgia’s proposed abortion legislation, and I didn’t want to add any confusion to the ongoing concerns, pro and con, about House Bill 954.

This is Doonesbury.  This is what Doonesbury does.  Doonesbury is about political satire.  Have the nation's editors gone batty?

...“Editors believe (click title to entry - thank you) he has expressed that opinion in a manner that skirts, if not crosses, the boundaries of good taste expected in a family newspaper.”(Vacaville, CA Reporter)

“I am concerned about the graphic content.” (Rock Hill, SC Herald)

“The language in the original strips was not appropriate for a comic that could be viewed by children.” (Ogden, UT Standard-Examiner)

“The Texas abortion cartoons venture too far for the comics pages.” (The Press of Atlantic City)

“Went over the line of good taste and humor.” Oregonian)...

"Over the line of good taste...?"  What do these editors believe the legislators are doing?  In the entire landscape of the assault on women's reproductive rights, this cartoon is the least of the issue and brings comic relief to a sincerely tragic strategy to up end a woman's life by extremist state legislators.  

These comics are tame compared to what they should say.  I can't believe USA newspaper editors are running away from the fact women are being victimized by their own governments.  Talk about a war on women, where are the newspapers when women need them?