{"id":9118,"date":"2009-11-11T12:21:09","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T19:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=9118"},"modified":"2009-11-11T12:21:09","modified_gmt":"2009-11-11T19:21:09","slug":"in-contempt-on-the-stupak-amendment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=9118","title":{"rendered":"&quot;In Contempt&quot; on The Stupak Amendment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/incontemptcomics.com\/2009\/11\/11\/health-care-for-all\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/stupak_amendment.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"stupak_amendment\" width=\"500\" height=\"368\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9119\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/stupak_amendment.png 500w, https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/stupak_amendment-300x220.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Posted with the kind permission of Kevin Moore. Click on the cartoon to see it bigger, and to see <a href=\"http:\/\/incontemptcomics.com\/2009\/11\/11\/health-care-for-all\/\">Kevin&#8217;s commentary and links<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Kevin&#8217;s comments, I&#8217;d point out <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/ezra-klein\/2009\/11\/the_stupak_amendment_as_much_a.html\">this post by Ezra<\/a>, pointing out that (by the weird definition of &#8220;subsidize&#8221; conservatives are suddenly using), Stupak &#8220;did not block the federal government from subsidizing abortion. All it did was block it from subsidizing abortion for poorer women.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And read as well <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rhrealitycheck.org\/blog\/2009\/11\/11\/bishops-opposition-segregation-funds-height-hypocrisy\">this piece<\/a>, pointing out that by the Bishop&#8217;s definition of federal funding, the enormous support the Federal government pays to Catholic hospitals and charities must be a subsidization of religion, and is presumably unconstitutional.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted with the kind permission of Kevin Moore. Click on the cartoon to see it bigger, and to see Kevin&#8217;s commentary and links. In addition to Kevin&#8217;s comments, I&#8217;d point out this post by Ezra, pointing out that (by the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=9118\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,17,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion-reproductive-rights","category-cartooning-comics","category-health-care-and-related-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}