So, Gary Trudeau storyline for this week involves old white men in Texas torturing women who need abortions.

Editors who are not now, and were probably never were, journalists, have pulled the strip for this week.

The Portland Oregonian, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, the St. Paul Pioneer Press, among others, though the Athens Georgian Banner-Herald takes for their reason:

Given that the Georgia General Assembly is considering an abortion bill — House Bill 954, sponsored by Rep. Doug McKillip, R-Athens, which would prohibit abortions after the 20th week of pregnancy — I made a unilateral decision not to publish the “Doonesbury” strips intended for publication this week. Quite simply, I thought there was a real possibility that readers might confuse the topic of this week’s “Doonesbury” with Georgia’s proposed abortion legislation, and I didn’t want to add any confusion to the ongoing concerns, pro and con, about House Bill 954.

So you are afraid that people looking at the old white guys in Texas going all Handmaiden’s Tale on women might somehow be conflated with old white guys in Georgia going all Handmaiden’s Tale on women.

In any case, as a result of the censorship by these cowards, his strip is getting gallons of ink.

I’ll be following it this week, that’s for sure.

BTW, according to Romenesko, on Thursday, we see the line, “By the authority invested in me by the GOP base, I thee rape.”