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Sandra Fluke: Unwanted children are ‘barriers’ to success
lsn ^ | 10/30/2012 | Johanna Dasteel

Posted on 10/30/2012 3:40:48 PM PDT by Morgana

Washington, D.C., October 30, 2012 (LifeSiteNews) – Pro-contraception activist Sandra Fluke, on a speaking tour for Barack Obama’s re-election campaign, continues to parrot the Obama administration’s party line that children are one of the biggest roadblocks to women’s success.

“Equality,” Fluke said in an October 15 interview with the Cornell Daily Sun, means “the ability to control your reproduction so that that a career is a realistic goal and something that can be achieved and not derailed” by a baby.

Fluke, the Georgetown law school student who stepped into the limelight earlier this year after she was blocked from testifying at a hearing on religious freedom and the Obama administration’s HHS mandate, also said she does not believe she is “entitled” to contraception.

Instead, she said, “I think the case is much more about what kind of society do we want to live in.”

“If we think about what contraception means for people, it’s not only about having access to the health care that you need, and the human rights aspects of having access to health care, but it’s also about what being able to control your own reproduction does for women specifically, but for men as well.”

Fluke has been an ardent supporter of the Obama administration’s plan to force all employers, including many religious employers, to pay for their employees’ birth control. She was widely ridiculed in the conservative press after testifying at a Democrat press conference that contraception costs thousands of dollars and poses a financial burden to law students such as herself. She later admitted that she didn’t realize that contraceptives were available for $9 a month at Target, including the Target down the street from Georgetown.

The idea of babies as barriers to achievement is not a new one for the Obama team. Obama himself famously said during his 2008 campaign that if his daughters, then 9 and 6, “made a mistake,” he wouldn’t want them “punished with a baby.”

Other administration officials have argued in court that contraception is vital to “improving the health of women … so that women who choose to do so can be part of the workforce on an equal playing field with men.”

But according to conservative commentator George Will, the educated, career-oriented women Obama’s campaign is targeting with his “War on Women” rhetoric are the ones most offended by it. Will said on ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos” that the Obama campaign’s fixation on abortion and contraceptive access has provoked a backlash from educated women because it implies they only care about personal, sexual issues, not critical national issues like the struggling economy and complicated foreign relations.

“There has been a big change — it’s not a particular state,” said Will. “It’s the change in Romney’s gain among women, and that I think represents a huge recoil by professional women with college degrees against the condensation of the Obama campaign … which says, essentially, don’t you trouble your pretty little heads about these men’s issues and all the rest. Worry about contraception, which has been a constitutional right for 47 years.”

“It’s a distraction,” Will added, “the entire ‘war on women’ trope, and I think professional educated women find it offensive.”


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: 2evil4words; abortion; moralabsolutes; prolife
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

"Birth Control"


God, we hope so
21 posted on 10/30/2012 3:52:24 PM PDT by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: Morgana

Is she a 30 or 31 year old “Georgetown law student” or a “pro contraception activist”? She does not appear to be spending much time studying. What has she ever accomplished?
I wonder if she is any good in bed or at anytning else in life.


22 posted on 10/30/2012 3:55:47 PM PDT by forgotten man (forgotten man)
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To: Nevadan

I don’t think I want to know her idea of ‘success”


23 posted on 10/30/2012 3:58:00 PM PDT by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: Morgana
Here is my wish for Ms. Fluke:

May she have no "barriers" to her unhappiness when she is old, wrinkled, widowed (more likely, divorced) and all alone.

24 posted on 10/30/2012 3:58:31 PM PDT by Jess Kitting
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To: GeronL

Sandra Fluke- another death-worshiping monster.


25 posted on 10/30/2012 4:01:25 PM PDT by Noumenon (“The other side wants everything in America to be free, except us.” -- Paul Ryan)
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To: forgotten man
Is she a 30 or 31 year old “Georgetown law student” or a “pro contraception activist”? She does not appear to be spending much time studying. What has she ever accomplished?

Study or accomplishments are not required these days. Universities will love you if you "study" for decades. All you need to do is to pay your tuition on time.

26 posted on 10/30/2012 4:03:14 PM PDT by Greysard
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To: All

Barrier to “success”? I guess that all depends on one’s definition of what success is. I consider my daughter to be my greatest success.

BTW, how many children does Fluck have? None. So what’s her excuse for being such a dismal failure in life?


27 posted on 10/30/2012 4:03:24 PM PDT by An American In Dairyland
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To: Morgana

Since Fluke has no children how does she explain her underachievement?


28 posted on 10/30/2012 4:05:05 PM PDT by hopespringseternal
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To: hopespringseternal

I don’t know how many notches she has on her diaphram, maybe to her she has been very “successful”


29 posted on 10/30/2012 4:06:16 PM PDT by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: An American In Dairyland

I’m not an expert but I get a major lesbo vibe when I see her.


30 posted on 10/30/2012 4:06:18 PM PDT by nascarnation (Defeat Baraq 2012. Deport Baraq 2013)
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To: Noumenon

bump


31 posted on 10/30/2012 4:06:37 PM PDT by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: Morgana

“If we think about what contraception means for people, it’s not only about having access to the health care that you need, and the human rights aspects of having access to health care, but it’s also about what being able to control your own reproduction does for women specifically, but for men as well.”

It takes years of government schooling to be this stupid.


32 posted on 10/30/2012 4:09:13 PM PDT by Lets Roll NOW (A baby isn't a punishment, Obama is)
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To: Morgana

The war on children.


33 posted on 10/30/2012 4:10:14 PM PDT by BlessedBeGod
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To: Morgana
I know women who work up until a few days before they give birth.

I know others who go back to work soon after giving birth. They usually have extended families so grandma and grandpa can take care of the kids.

Then there is always adoption for those who don't ever want to experience the "hassle" of bringing up kids.

Children are not a certain impediment to anyone's career.

Also, now that people are living longer every decent person with parents is going to have to take some time off now and again to help their aging parents deal with medical and other issues.

Once again a non-issue magnified into a human rights issue.

34 posted on 10/30/2012 4:10:42 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: kempster
She probably never thought of that. She thinks you have to take pills to keep from having babies. She's a very educated gal you know.
35 posted on 10/30/2012 4:15:00 PM PDT by pepperdog ( I still get a thrill up my leg when spell check doesn't recognize the name/word Obama!)
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To: CMailBag; Slump Tester
Is that anything like yoga??

Tantric yoga, perhaps.

36 posted on 10/30/2012 4:17:01 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: GeronL
I don’t think I want to know her idea of ‘success”

Apparently in her case, success means another human being will never have to call her "Mommy". She may be onto something.........

37 posted on 10/30/2012 4:18:02 PM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: Morgana

Let’s just think about a man having sex with her. Why would you have sex with someone who might kill YOUR son or daughter.


38 posted on 10/30/2012 4:19:06 PM PDT by Sacajaweau (r)
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To: Morgana

Sandra Fluke brain self aborted years ago.


39 posted on 10/30/2012 4:21:02 PM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: Morgana

Sandra Flukes brain self aborted years ago.


40 posted on 10/30/2012 4:21:19 PM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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