{"id":20363,"date":"2015-10-03T11:18:45","date_gmt":"2015-10-03T18:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=20363"},"modified":"2015-10-03T11:40:13","modified_gmt":"2015-10-03T18:40:13","slug":"cartoon-abortion-and-selfishness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=20363","title":{"rendered":"Cartoon: Abortion and Selfishness"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When I make this argument to pro-lifers, they often point out that there are individual pro-lifers who support a strong welfare state. That’s true. But what individual pro-lifers say is not the point.<\/p>\n

The point is, what do the pro-life groups put their political might behind? What do the politicians they endorse actually vote for, and just as importantly, vote against?<\/p>\n

The pro-life movement is an incredibly powerful grass-roots group. If they made strong welfare for single parents a priority, the GOP – which depends on pro-lifers to get elected – would have no choice but to support it – or at least, to stop opposing it. And the reason that doesn’t happen is, policies to help single parents aren’t a pro-life priority in any meaningful fashion.<\/p>\n

This cartoon originally had a caption – “Compassionate Conservatism at Its Finest,” a reference to George W. Bush’s 2000 campaign slogan. (This cartoon was apparently drawn during the Bush administration). I got rid of the caption partly because it was dated, but also because the cartoon is stronger without the caption. (I have a bad habit of putting in captions when I shouldn’t.)<\/p>\n

Artwise, this cartoon is… okay. I like the angry face in the second-to-last panel, and the way his hair looks like a bunch of bananas. I like the drawing of the woman in the final panel. And the storytelling and “acting” is mostly fine, and that’s what matters most to readers.<\/p>\n

But I still wince when I see this strip! Like, in panel 2, his head is way <\/em>smaller than it should be, and in the final panel there’s obviously no underlying structure in his head shape, so it’s sort of just a blob. (I’ve always had trouble drawing characters in profile.) I hate the shading in this strip – very tentative and all over the place, and with a cheesy Photoshop blurring effect. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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