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Subscribe to RSSThis week, after initially pulling out all funding of Planned Parenthood, Susan G. Komen for a Cure, an organization focused on breast cancer awareness and treatment, caved to public sentiment and returned funding to the nation’s leading sexual and reproductive health care provider (view all our cartoons about the decision here).
One person taken a back by the ruling was our very own conservative cartoonist, Gary McCoy. Gary drew three very strong political cartoons this week about Komen returning to fund Planned Parenthood, an organization that Gary has drawn a good deal of cartoons about.
I asked Gary for his thoughts, and here’s what he wrote me:
“I did the Komen/Planned Parenthood cartoons because obviously, I feel very strongly about the issue of protecting the liberties of unborn babies, not to mention my donated funds, or taxpayer funds going to an organization whose main business is terminating over 300,000 unborn babies a year. I had a women email me saying how much she appreciated my “Aborted Babies Cemetery” cartoon, because she aborted her first child in 1978, and has so much regret over it.”
Here are the cartoons. His first cartoon elicited a lot of response from our readers. What do you think? Let us know by commenting below, or by posting on our Facebook page.
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Y'know, you'd think that a political cartoonist would research the issues and organizations he or she lampoons. Apparently not--Unless we're redefining "main business," to mean, "one of the (if not THE) least-performed functions." If conservative ideas are so wonderful, and liberal policies and organizations so bad, why do conservatives rely so much on made-up information, misrepresentation of facts, and outright lies about the policies and positions of others? One would think that if conservatives really believed that liberal ideas, positions, and activities were so horrible, they would be willing to talk about them, instead of making things up.
Exactly. Mr. McCoy's response shows is ignorance on the matter but then he had already accomplished that with his cartoons.