{"id":1908,"date":"2009-11-11T03:46:18","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T07:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=1908"},"modified":"2010-03-11T16:02:53","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T20:02:53","slug":"abortion-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2009\/11\/11\/abortion-coverage\/","title":{"rendered":"Stewing Over Stupak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This feminist is furious over the abortion-coverage-banning <a href=\"http:\/\/wonkroom.thinkprogress.org\/2009\/11\/10\/stupak-reac\/\">Stupak Amendment<\/a> to the House health care reform bill.   And no, Stupak isn&#8217;t a Hyde Amendment-equivalent. It&#8217;s the Hyde Amendment on steroids.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never been a third party-proponent.  But Stupak&#8217;s inclusion in the House bill shows such disregard and disdain for women&#8217;s reproductive rights, that a progressive, pro-choice third party is starting to sound very attractive.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose I must rise out of my Stupak stupor and write a limerick:<\/p>\n<p>Stewing Over Stupak<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Dogs by using extortion<br \/>\nHave effectively outlawed abortion:<br \/>\nTurned the health reform bill<br \/>\nInto &#8220;pro-lifer&#8221; swill.<br \/>\nMust reverse this, or Democrats&#8217; corps shun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This feminist is furious over the abortion-coverage-banning Stupak Amendment to the House health care reform bill. And no, Stupak isn&#8217;t a Hyde Amendment-equivalent. It&#8217;s the Hyde Amendment on steroids. I&#8217;ve never been a third party-proponent. But Stupak&#8217;s inclusion in the House bill shows such disregard and disdain for women&#8217;s reproductive rights, that a progressive, pro-choice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182,1196,121,153,52,14,2,168,11,154,6,7,3],"tags":[983,985,981,986,780,984,980],"class_list":["post-1908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion-rights","category-bart-stupak","category-feminism-humor","category-gender-politics","category-health-satire","category-house","category-law","category-legal-limericks","category-legislation","category-political-commentary","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","tag-abortion-coverage","tag-anti-abortion-democrats","tag-blue-dogs","tag-feminist-satire","tag-health-reform","tag-reproductive-rights","tag-stupak-amendment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1908"}],"version-history":[{"count":36,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2776,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908\/revisions\/2776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}