I was honored to be the featured profile in an article in the Washington Post about cartoonists’ responses to the ruling against Roe V Wade, along with my drawing. Below is an expert, click here for entire article.
Donnelly, who contributes cartoons to the New Yorker, was absorbing how a Supreme Court decision Friday on Mississippi’s restrictive abortion law, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, led to the court’s overturning Roe v. Wade, leaving states free to outlaw abortion.
As she decided how to put those feelings into art, Donnelly considered that she could skewer antiabortion activists or conservative justices or supporters of Donald Trump — or could draw women “yelling at the top of their lungs demanding freedom.” Instead, she chose to render what was at the forefront of her mind: “fear for our democracy.” She drew a staggered Lady Liberty.
“Like me, I imagined she felt punched in the gut, taken off balance, in pain, insulted and crestfallen,” she says. “However, like many other women, Lady Liberty will again stand strong for the principles on which our country was founded.”