October 11, 2013 - California signed into law provisions that expand abortion access. Of course abortion opponents are claiming this makes the procedures less safe even though the six year study investigating this idea did not find that to be the case, but opponents of abortion often seem to think they know better about these issues which is kinda what today's comic is supposed to be about.

A lot of people have expressed confusion translating the dialogue in the Hennifer comics. Today's is blatantly supposed to be about Hennifer questioning what to do with a fertilized egg ("pregnancy") after her relationship circumstances have changed from what she initially believed them to be (see yesterday's comic, the third panel implies chickens having sex for all those perverts out there), and then Hennifer has that decision taken from her by a farmer (who potentially could symbolize some authoritative figure?). Hennifer believes the decision should be her own not anyone else's yet she isn't even allowed to decide. That's a key aspect of the abortion argument. Women may know what they want but often they don't have the ability to get it. Expanding access increases such women's freedom, and hopefully less safe options get eliminated by better free market options (because if your options are safe abotion vs. unsafe abortion vs. no abortion, unsafe abortion becomes the last thing a woman will do, if the options are unsafe abortion vs. no abortion you're putting a woman in a difficult place rather than tipping the balance for no abortion -- which isn't something i think abortion proponents understand).

Monday we get back to more standard comics and the fate of Star.

-D