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Maddow defends Garry Trudeau’s controversial Doonesbury Texas abortion law

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Rachel not only defended the comic strip, but also called out newspapers which refused to show the strip on the trans vaginal ultrasound law, and other papers which moved it to the editorial or opinion page, as if it doesn’t exist or is merely an absurd opinion. Texas does things in a big way, as they remind us. Sweeping a pile of dirt that large under the rug is a Herculean – and pointless task – which leaves an elephant-sized lump in the middle of the floor, of which we must never speak.

There is a bright side, however. Maddow said: "As it is, this strip is being run all over the place. Censorship seems to have that affect in America. It gets you more attention than you would have ever had if you had published it in the first place, like you weren’t cowardly."