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 Obamas re-election campaign, continues to parrot the Obama administrations party line that children are one of the biggest roadblocks to womens 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 administrations 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, its not only about having access to the health care that you need, and the human rights aspects of having access to health care, but its 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 administrations 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 didnt 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 wouldnt 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 Obamas campaign is targeting with his War on Women rhetoric are the ones most offended by it. Will said on ABCs This Week with George Stephanopoulos that the Obama campaigns 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 its not a particular state, said Will. Its the change in Romneys 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, dont you trouble your pretty little heads about these mens issues and all the rest. Worry about contraception, which has been a constitutional right for 47 years.
Its a distraction, Will added, the entire war on women trope, and I think professional educated women find it offensive.
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.
I don’t think I want to know her idea of ‘success”
May she have no "barriers" to her unhappiness when she is old, wrinkled, widowed (more likely, divorced) and all alone.
Sandra Fluke- another death-worshiping monster.
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.
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?
Since Fluke has no children how does she explain her underachievement?
I don’t know how many notches she has on her diaphram, maybe to her she has been very “successful”
I’m not an expert but I get a major lesbo vibe when I see her.
bump
If we think about what contraception means for people, its not only about having access to the health care that you need, and the human rights aspects of having access to health care, but its 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.
The war on children.
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.
Tantric yoga, perhaps.
Apparently in her case, success means another human being will never have to call her "Mommy". She may be onto something.........
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.
Sandra Fluke brain self aborted years ago.
Sandra Flukes brain self aborted years ago.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.