August 5, 2013 - As stated above, many of the upcoming comics will deal with storylines regarding rape. I'm going to try my best to make note of any comics specifically in the archive (and I possibly should go back and amend some pages to include trigger warnings), but in the interest of finding a compromise that is both sensitive to survivors of rape and not spoiling future storylines, I've decided to put up a trigger warning at the top of the main page as well as place this paragraph at the top of the blog with considerable lead time before the comics depicting such situations are posted.

The majority of Americans favor legalizing abortion in pregnancies resulting from rape. That being the case, why take action to limit the care rape victims can receive? Closing clinics doesn't provide rape victims with places to go and I don't understand how someone who believes an exception should exist for such circumstances can support legislation that would close clinics without providing alternatives for the women effected. Yes, pregnancies resulting from rape are rare compared to the causes of other unintended pregnancies, but they do still occur. I don't think ignoring these incidents provides an effective solution to ensuring such women receive the care most people believe these women are entitled to.

In related news, I think I've mentioned before, 31 states allow rapists to sue for custody of the children they father. And the recent kidnapping case in Ohio has once again but this information back in the spotlight with a new bill proposed to hopefully reverse these laws. I can't understand why we stress over limiting abortion when there are other obvious changes that strike me as more important to look at more immediately.

-D