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.”
Sandra, Murder of an unborn child is an even larger failure!
If you want success so bad, quit trying to screw all of us!
Nonsense!!
Having a baby may delay career goals but it certainly doesn't derail them.
The skills one learns running a family, multi-tasking, time management, solving problems while keeping everyone happy, intuition, and on and on, are better than any graduate degree.
And getting your PhD in your fifty is just as rewarding as getting it at 30. Even more so!! You have your family to share it with you!
KK <-- Mom to 4, grandma to 2 and PhD candidate
I wonder if her marriage to a man was all just for show.. Elena Kagan, Janet Napolitano or Chaz Bono would be a much better match for her.
Birth control IS NOT healthcare. It is pregnancy prevention. Curing cancer, setting a broken bone, heart surgery, that is all healthcare. This issue has no business in a “true” healthcare bill. But then again, neither do 16,000 new IRS agents!
Next time someone meets Moochelle at an event, they ought to ask her how she made out so well professionally having been burdened with two “mistakes!”
Sandra. I understand completely. It’s also burdensome that we have to take dumps. Imagine. If we didn’t have to ever go to the bathroom. That would be great, hey Sandra.
You can get more people to show up to a baby shower than to on of her rallies.
For 0bama and his stalinist demonicRats, the only good baby is a dead baby.
Unwanted 47 percenters are a barrier to keeping my hard earned money.
So is being a sl*t!
How long until they consider elderly parents and the disabled to be inconvenient “barriers” too?
My wife is convinced this woman is a dyke. If she is, then contraception is a moot point. What a f*en stupid woman. “I want birth control and I want you to pay for it”
“Death-worshipping monster” ... that’s got a certain ring to it.
Maybe Sandra Fluke doesn’t know contraception is legal.
Is he saying that Barack is all wet?
Q: What’s sloppy,squishy and smells quite fishy?
A: Sandra Fluck.
So are unwanted academics, unwanted Democrat politicians, unwanted regulations, and unwanted taxes.
Being a good Dem, I'm surprised you didn't know about a foolproof method for avoiding pregnacy, that doesn't cost a dime.
It's called "The Lewinsky method."
Cheers!
The largest block to success in the West is mentality and solutions of neo-liberalism. Marxism guarentees failure and oppression, in equality, for all who are not in the ruling class.
My mother had five children in the 1930s and 40s. Life was not easy and she and our dad struggled to raise us. Without a doubt, she and our dad considered raising us the greatest success they could have possibly had.
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