{"id":141343,"date":"2013-08-20T12:00:40","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T16:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/?p=141343"},"modified":"2013-12-09T11:45:58","modified_gmt":"2013-12-09T16:45:58","slug":"gop-war-on-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/political-ironing\/08\/20\/gop-war-on-women\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Honest Explanation Of The GOP&#8217;s War On Women You&#8217;ll See"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Never one to shy from controversy, cartoonist Garry Trudeau took the GOP to task in 2012 when they began releasing their Kraken-esque pieces of legislation that would require women seeking abortions to endure a series of painful, invasive and sovereignty-violating procedures before undergoing the operation&#8211;which is still, to the chagrin of most social conservatives, authorized under <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>. So contentious were Trudeau&#8217;s sketches that quite a few papers opted out of publishing many of the cartoons you see below. In Trudeau&#8217;s eyes, however, to not cover them would be akin to &#8220;comedy malpractice&#8221;. A year later, things haven&#8217;t gotten any better and Trudeau&#8217;s work unfortunately remains as relevant as ever.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/doonesbury-abortion-2.jpg\" alt=\"Doonesbury Abortion 2\" width=\"475\" height=\"610\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-141350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/doonesbury-abortion-2.jpg 475w, https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/doonesbury-abortion-2-155x200.jpg 155w, https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/doonesbury-abortion-2-467x600.jpg 467w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/doonesbury-abortion-3.jpg\" alt=\"Doonesbury Abortion 3\" width=\"471\" height=\"617\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-141349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/doonesbury-abortion-3.jpg 471w, https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/doonesbury-abortion-3-152x200.jpg 152w, https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/doonesbury-abortion-3-458x600.jpg 458w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 471px) 100vw, 471px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/doonesbury-abortion-4.jpg\" alt=\"Doonesbury Abortion 4\" width=\"469\" height=\"605\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-141348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/doonesbury-abortion-4.jpg 469w, https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/doonesbury-abortion-4-155x200.jpg 155w, https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/doonesbury-abortion-4-465x600.jpg 465w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 469px) 100vw, 469px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/doonesbury-abortion-5.jpg\" alt=\"Doonesbury Abortion 5\" width=\"469\" height=\"603\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-141347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/doonesbury-abortion-5.jpg 469w, https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/doonesbury-abortion-5-155x200.jpg 155w, https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/doonesbury-abortion-5-466x600.jpg 466w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 469px) 100vw, 469px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/doonesbury-abortion-6.jpg\" alt=\"Doonesbury Abortion 6\" width=\"471\" height=\"601\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-141346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/doonesbury-abortion-6.jpg 471w, https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/doonesbury-abortion-6-156x200.jpg 156w, https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/doonesbury-abortion-6-470x600.jpg 470w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 471px) 100vw, 471px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/doonesbury-abortion.jpg\" alt=\"Doonesbury Abortion\" width=\"500\" height=\"646\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-141344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/doonesbury-abortion.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/doonesbury-abortion-154x200.jpg 154w, https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/doonesbury-abortion-464x600.jpg 464w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Never one to shy from controversy, cartoonist Garry Trudeau took the GOP to task in 2012 when they began releasing their Kraken-esque pieces of legislation that would require women seeking abortions to endure a series of painful, invasive and sovereignty-violating procedures before undergoing the operation&#8211;which is still, to the chagrin of most social conservatives, authorized [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":530,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[260],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Most Honest Explanation Of The GOP&#039;s 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