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Obama Calls Law Student Embroiled in Birth-Control Debate [Obama: Your Parents Should Be Proud]
NY Times ^ | March 02, 2012 | JONATHAN WEISMAN

Posted on 03/02/2012 11:27:27 AM PST by Steelfish

March 2, 2012 Obama Calls Law Student Embroiled in Birth-Control Debate By JONATHAN WEISMAN President Obama on Friday called a Georgetown University law student who has publicly backed the administration’s regulations mandating that employer-provided insurance plans offer free contraceptives, thanking her for standing firm against withering criticism and an escalating battle between Democrats and Rush Limbaugh.

The president made the call just before Sandra Fluke, who last month supported Mr. Obama’s policy in informal testimony on Capitol Hill, was to appear on MSNBC.

“What was really personal for me was he said to tell my parents that they should be proud,” she told Andrea Mitchell, the host of the cable news program.

The showdown between Ms. Fluke and Mr. Limbaugh is turning into a major battle between Democratic and Republican lawmakers. Under heavy pressure from Democratic leaders, House Speaker John A. Boehner of Ohio on Friday condemned as “inappropriate” the comments Mr. Limbaugh made earlier this week. The conservative talk show host called Ms. Fluke a “slut” and a “prostitute” for supporting Mr. Obama’s regulations, even if the mandate might violate an employer’s religious beliefs.

But Mr. Boehner, a Republican, also denounced Democratic fund-raising efforts that have stemmed from the turn of events.

“The speaker obviously believes the use of those words was inappropriate, as is trying to raise money off the situation,” Michael Steel, Mr. Boehner’s spokesman, said Friday.

The flap originates from an appearance by Ms. Fluke, a student at Georgetown University’s law school, at an informal House Democratic hearing last month. Ms. Fluke testified in favor of Mr. Obama’s mandate, which Georgetown and other Catholic institutions have roundly condemned as an infringement on their religious rights.

At the hearing, Ms. Fluke said fellow students at her Jesuit university pay as much as $1,000 a year for...

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TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: contraceptionmandate; sandrafluke; sandytheslut
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1 posted on 03/02/2012 11:27:32 AM PST by Steelfish
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To: Steelfish
Image and video hosting by TinyPic A fluke is a parasite!
2 posted on 03/02/2012 11:28:50 AM PST by Kansas58
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To: Steelfish

Maybe he wanted a date?


3 posted on 03/02/2012 11:29:22 AM PST by SMARTY ("The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings. "Henri Frederic Amiel)
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To: Steelfish

That is just so wrong. Too bad he and Mooshell have two daughters.


4 posted on 03/02/2012 11:30:03 AM PST by txrefugee
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To: SMARTY

This President will stoop low to any level to pander to the NARAL, Planned Parenthood, and EMILY’s LIST vote.


5 posted on 03/02/2012 11:30:53 AM PST by Steelfish (ui)
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To: Steelfish

A $1000 a year for birth control pills.............WOW are they made of gold?


6 posted on 03/02/2012 11:31:01 AM PST by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11)
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To: Steelfish

To the slut: If the condems fit, you can’t ACQUIT!


7 posted on 03/02/2012 11:32:14 AM PST by 2harddrive
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To: Steelfish

Amazing what the boy king is proud of! Leaching off the government control is what he is proud of. NOTHING ELSE pleases him more than having control of this destroyed country.

He shows his true colors more and more each day.


8 posted on 03/02/2012 11:33:41 AM PST by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11)
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To: Steelfish

“What was really personal for me was he said to tell my parents that they should be proud,”

Wait a minute! If she is 26 or under, why aren’t those parents keeping her on their policy and providing her birth control?????


9 posted on 03/02/2012 11:37:53 AM PST by Bluebird Singing
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To: Steelfish

Obama knows that this “woman” is not married and is aware that she is having premarital sex and he calls her to support her not just having pepremarital sex, but using birth control that will kill any babies she might conceive.

He condones both premarital sex and baby murder.


10 posted on 03/02/2012 11:38:55 AM PST by Uncle Slayton
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To: Steelfish

Of course he’s embroiled in it. He started it.


11 posted on 03/02/2012 11:39:13 AM PST by DManA
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To: Steelfish

Obamao probably told her that if she went to bat for the other team, she wouldn’t have any financial hardship.


12 posted on 03/02/2012 11:42:10 AM PST by crusty old prospector
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To: ColdOne

NYT revising history again. She said $3000.

Others point out that you can get then for $9/months at Target.


13 posted on 03/02/2012 11:42:42 AM PST by DManA
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To: Uncle Slayton

You make an excellent point!


14 posted on 03/02/2012 11:44:25 AM PST by Steelfish (ui)
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To: Bluebird Singing

Because she’s 30. She got a BS in Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies from Cornell in 2003.


15 posted on 03/02/2012 11:46:30 AM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: massgopguy

I am just shocked she likes boys. Here is her Bio:

FROM THE SITE: JAMMIE WEARING FOOLS.


Sandra Fluke’s professional background in domestic violence and human trafficking began with Sanctuary for Families in New York City. There, she launched the agency’s pilot Program Evaluation Initiative. While at Sanctuary, she co-founded the New York Statewide Coalition for Fair Access to Family Court, which after a twenty-year stalemate, successfully advocated for legislation granting access to civil orders of protection for unmarried victims of domestic violence, including LGBTQ victims and teens. Sandra was also a member of the Manhattan Borough President’s Taskforce on Domestic Violence and numerous other New York City and New York State coalitions that successfully advocated for policy improvements impacting victims of domestic violence.

As the 2010 recipient of the Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles Fran Kandel Public Interest Grant, she researched, wrote, and produced an instructional film on how to apply for a domestic violence restraining order in pro per. She has also interned with the Coalition to Abolish Slavery & Trafficking; Polaris Project; Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County; Break the Cycle; the Domestic Violence Legal Empowerment and Appeals Project; NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund; Crime Victim and Sexual Assault Services; and the Human Services Coalition of Tompkins County.

Through Georgetown’s clinic programs, Sandra has proposed legislation based on fact-finding in Kenya regarding child trafficking for domestic work, and has represented victims of domestic violence in protection order cases. Sandra is the Development Editor of the Journal of Gender and the Law, and served as the President of Law Students for Reproductive Justice, and the Vice President of the Women’s Legal Alliance. In her first year, she also co-founded a campus committee addressing human trafficking. Cornell University awarded her a B. S. in Policy Analysis & Management, as well as Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies in 2003


16 posted on 03/02/2012 11:49:44 AM PST by crosslink (Moderates should play in the middle of a busy street)
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To: Steelfish

“Parents, if your daughter went before a congressional hearing and said that she was having so much sex, she was going broke buying contraceptives, then advocated for a welfare program to cover her lifestyle, would you be proud?”

~Rush Limbaugh


17 posted on 03/02/2012 12:01:19 PM PST by dragonblustar (Allah Ain't So Akbar!)
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To: Steelfish

BO should relate well to skanks. Just look at what he had for a mother. A world-ban**ng whatever who had him without a father, so go the reasons for Bo’s state of mental ineptitude.


18 posted on 03/02/2012 12:07:23 PM PST by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
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To: ColdOne

Actual cost for pills is about $10/month. Besides being a skank, the wench is a liar too.


19 posted on 03/02/2012 12:09:03 PM PST by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
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To: Steelfish

FACTS:
98% of bar room skanks who will bang a stranger vote democrat.
99% of all democrats believe that by sleeping with strangers they advance progress and give back to the community.
Republicans spread freedom and democracy.
Democrats spread STDs.


20 posted on 03/02/2012 12:10:07 PM PST by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
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