Letters to the Editor
Whitehall Ph.D. on 'Doonesbury' Rape Comic
Woman is critical of cartoonist Garry Trudeau.
Cartoonist Garry Trudeau's controversial March 15, 2012, version of the "Doonesbury" comic strip has set off an array of different responses from around the United States. And that conversation came to Whitehall Borough on Friday when E.A. Svirbel, Ph.D., of Whitehall, offered her take on the cartoon with a letter to the editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. The strip, which many newspapers—excluding the Post-Gazette—chose not to publish, shows a woman seeking an abortion about to be given a transvaginal sonogram. A medical professional whom the woman is seeing says, while performing the sonogram, "By the authority vested in me by the GOP base, I thee rape." In her letter, Dr. Svirbel calls the March 15 comic "a pathetic display of male …
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