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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 2012
Page
3
Letter writers urge investment in wetlands and infrastructure to prevent floods. They argue the city’s two major waterways funnel water when too much rain falls and blame repeated election defeats for library and airport projects.
Lauren Cronbaugh Walford urges readers to examine the birth control debate as a defense of Christianity against perceived Obama administration bias. She cautions media bias and calls for considering both sides of the story amid ongoing partisan tension.
The Doonesbury abortion law strips provoke reaction as papers debate running sensitive panels. The Iowa law requiring sonograms and heartbeat descriptions faces criticism and support amid references to Texas rules and Virginia echoes.
Opinion on Garry Trudeau’s Doonesbury Texas sonogram series notes many newspapers avoided the strips for reader sensitivity. The piece argues the law itself is obscene, not the satire, and urges public debate rather than silence about reproductive rights bills and the policing of women's bodies.
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