Lots of pregnant GOP elephants

Ever since the GOP failed to force Todd "Legitimate Rape" Akin out of his Missouri Senate race, pregnant elephants have been popping up in our cartoons. The first is mine, which I drew after Akin essentially told Mitt Romney to focus on his own campaign instead of sticking his nose into Akin's...

Nate Beeler of the Columbus Dispatch also went with a pregnant elephant, chosing to use words from Akin's quote that if a woman was legitimately raped, "the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down"...

David Fitzsimmons of the Arizona Daily Star drew on the far right-wing of the Republican party, who stand opposed to abortion even in the case of potential harm to the mother...

John Cole of the Scranton Times-Tribune decided to dive right into an X-Ray of the whole situation. If he weren't such a talented cartoonist, he could have been a doctor...



 

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