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Sandra Fluke embraces transgender soldiers in the military, HHS mandate 'accommodation'
Life Site News ^ | Feb 22, 2013 | Ben Johnson

Posted on 02/23/2013 5:31:57 AM PST by IbJensen

CLAREMONT, CA, February 22, 2013, (LifeSiteNews.com) – Sandra Fluke has brought her unique insights to bear on U.S. military policy, while teaming up again with Planned Parenthood to support the HHS mandate.

Last week, Fluke told a California college that Barack Obama's repeal of the “Don't Ask, “Don't Tell” policy did not go far enough, because it did not include transgender soldiers.

“We still don’t let trans-folk join the military,” Fluke told a gathering at Claremont McKenna College on February 13. “That needs to change.”

Service in the military, she said, should be open to the entire “the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning” population, according to the Daily Caller.

“I think the steps that we have to focus on right now are some of the ones that will be the most impactful but also the ones that society is ready for,” she added.

The speech came just days before the Georgetown contraception activist sent out an e-mail under the auspices of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund (PPAF) calling on its members to aggressively support the Obama administration's plan to force religious employers to fund contraception, sterilization, and abortion-inducing drugs.

Fluke praises Obama's latest “accommodation,” which states that religious non-profit entities would not directly cover practices that violate their religion – but that their employers must offer such services “free of charge.”

“President Obama's plan strikes the right balance,” Fluke wrote. “It guarantees that women will be able to get birth control without a co-pay, while ensuring that the rights of religious organizations are respected.”

The policy's critics say it amounts to an accounting gimmick and still tramples on the religious liberties of religious employers in the private sector, such as Hobby Lobby. Fluke addressed them in her e-mail.

“Despite the president's accommodation of religious organizations, powerful voices are still fighting to take this basic health care away from women,” she wrote. “It comes down to this: nobody – politicians, bosses, or anyone else – should be able to block your access to essential health care. Nobody has the right to deny you power over your body and your future.”

The e-mail routes its readers to a form e-mail from PPAF that reads, “I strongly support President Obama's plan for accessible and affordable birth control.”

“Personalize your message,” PPAF instructs.

Fluke's e-mail has already drawn opposition within the pro-life movement. Sarah Crawford of Texas Right to Life said, “Pills that induce abortion are not health care and Americans who oppose the use of these drugs should not be forced to pay for them simply because the most pro-abortion president demands it.”

“Abortion and abortion-inducing drugs are not health care. They are not a necessity and they are certainly not essential to the well-being of American women,” she said.

The re-emergence of Sandra Fluke shows she intends to build her brand, fueling speculation that she intends to run for political office in the future.

Fluke became a heroine of the feminist Left after being excluded from a House Oversight Committee hearing on religious freedom, because she intended to address a different topic altogether. The Democrats’ other witness, Barry Lynn, was invited but refused to come, a turn of events that led Virginia Democrat Gerald Connolly to charge the clergy who attended with being “complicit in the trampling of freedom.”

In her e-mail, Fluke writes that in the ensuing weeks, she was “smeared” by Rush Limbaugh and “shameless political operatives...They deny us a hearing, they shout us down, they call us names.”

The notoriety fed her public rise.

She spoke during prime time at the 2012 Democratic National Convention. During a campaign that largely focused on an alleged “war on women,” she became a surrogate for President Obama's re-election. A campaign stop in Reno, Nevada, last October at the height of the campaign season drew 10 people.

The e-mail is an attempt to make herself relevant on the issue yet again.

The Department of Health and Human Services is taking comments on the proposed “accommodation” for the next month. Those on both sides of the controversy have promised to make their voices heard.

“Pro-Life women have a few words for you, Sandra,” Crawford said. “We have always been here and we will forever fight for the real rights of women and the unborn to be protected.”


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KEYWORDS: fluck; hhsmandate; military; transgender
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To: IbJensen
in the military, she said, should be open to the entire “the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning” population

Whatever "population" takes Sandra Fluke seriously is not asking nearly enough questions.

41 posted on 02/23/2013 6:47:58 AM PST by madprof98
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To: Old Sarge
“President Obama's plan strikes the right balance,” Fluke wrote. “It guarantees that women will be able to get birth control without a co-pay, while ensuring that the rights of religious organizations are respected.”

Could this be any more absurd?

42 posted on 02/23/2013 6:54:32 AM PST by Yardstick
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To: Venturer
That’s right folks. Join the military and get a free sex change operation.

That's the whole point of this nonsense. CUrrently, universities/colleges are beginning to include the surgery, hormone therapy as part of their insurance coverage. College Health Plans Respond as Transgender Students Gain Visibility

I believe these operations and maintenace for the change is very expensive. THe more an insurance carrier covers something like this, the more their plans will cost.
43 posted on 02/23/2013 6:55:15 AM PST by Girlene
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To: IbJensen

Fluke is just like Cindy Sheehan...an irrelevant and unaccomplished narcissist desperately seeking attention. How pathetic. Why ANYBODY would pay any attention to what these losers have to say is beyond me.


44 posted on 02/23/2013 8:06:19 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: IbJensen

This is the second post this morning I’ve had to check and make sure it wasn’t satire. Crazy.


45 posted on 02/23/2013 9:02:47 AM PST by suthener
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To: CitizenUSA

You’re behind the news here, Citizen.

Sandra Fluck has entertained more troops than the USO. Therefore, I would say that she has indeed served. She’ll serve on any front (as long as she’s on her back) just as long as she gets free birth control pills.

I would say that she’s dangerously close to overloading due to too much flucking.


46 posted on 02/23/2013 12:35:19 PM PST by IbJensen (Liberals are like Slinkies, good for nothing, but you smile as you push them down the stairs.)
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To: silverleaf

Miz Fluck would be an ASSet on any battlefield. She could serve in the trenches, in foxHOLEs and in pup tents. This female would make a great soldier.


47 posted on 02/23/2013 12:38:44 PM PST by IbJensen (Liberals are like Slinkies, good for nothing, but you smile as you push them down the stairs.)
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To: IbJensen

We should care what this harpy thinks about anything?


48 posted on 02/23/2013 6:04:58 PM PST by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: Some Fat Guy in L.A.

Soon very soon gay members of the military will be given housing on post just like married couples. Expect this to increase the cost of the military quite a bit. First it was service, now its about benefits $$$$$$$$. I spent 20 years serving and knew members who were gay and as long as they kept their business to themselves most didn’t say anything. But our Commander in Chief has evolved. Its always been about the $$$.


49 posted on 02/23/2013 6:27:03 PM PST by JohnD9207 (Isn't freedom worth fighting for?)
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To: IbJensen

I don’t know if she’s a “useful idiot” or just an idiot.


50 posted on 02/23/2013 7:40:13 PM PST by Morgana (Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: Mouton
She should be on the first ship that leaves after Rev 2.

...or swimming out to meet it, if you catch my drift..

51 posted on 02/24/2013 1:14:44 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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To: IbJensen

Couldn’t the college find a local tramp to speak? Would have been cheaper.


52 posted on 02/24/2013 1:42:26 AM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult (Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
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