Posted on 09/06/2012 5:19:38 AM PDT by NYer
Pro-abortion activist Sandra Fluke accused Paul Ryan of supporting a bill that “would allow pregnant women to die preventable deaths in our emergency rooms,” an attack on Ryan’s pro-life views.
Speaking to the Democratic National Convention, Fluke pushed her pro-abortion views saying Mitt Romney and Ryan’s pro-life views would be bad for the country.
“In that America, your new president could be a man who stands by when a public figure tries to silence a private citizen with hateful slurs. Who won’t stand up to the slurs, or to any of the extreme, bigoted voices in his own party,” she claimed. “It would be an America in which you have a new vice president who co-sponsored a bill that would allow pregnant women to die preventable deaths in our emergency rooms.
Fluke said that was, “An America in which states humiliate women by forcing us to endure invasive ultrasounds we don’t want and our doctors say we don’t need,” even though studies show Planned Parenthood virtually always does ultrasounds prior to abortions.
Fluke is bastardizing a portion of the bill stopping taxpayer funding of abortions in Obamacare that reinstates conscience protections for pro-life medical workers who don’t want to be involved in abortions.
The Protect Life Act makes it clear that no funds authorized or appropriated by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), including tax credits and cost-sharing reductions, may be used to pay for abortion or abortion coverage. It specifies that individual people or state or local governments must purchase a separate elective abortion rider or insurance coverage that includes elective abortion but only as long as that is done with private funds and not monies authorized by Obamacare.
The bill also specifies that insurance issuers may offer health plans that include elective abortion and may offer separate elective abortion riders, so long as they ensure PPACA funds are not used for premiums or administrative costs. The bill also clarifies that issuers who offer elective abortion coverage must also offer a qualified health benefits plan that is identical except that it does not cover elective abortion.
The pro-life measure also ensures that state laws “protecting conscience rights, restricting or prohibiting abortion or coverage or funding of abortion, or establishing procedural requirements on abortion” are not abrogated by Obamacare. It also makes it so any state or local governments receiving funding under Obamacare may not subject any health care entity to discrimination or require any health plan to subject any entity to discrimination on the basis that it refuses to undergo abortion training, refuses to require abortion training, refuses to perform or pay for abortions, or refuses to provide abortion referrals.
Fluke talked about moving in the footsteps of the feminist foremothers, but forgot that they were mostly pro-life. And she talked about the issue of rape but didn’t mention how Planned Parenthood covers up child rape.
The full text of Fluke’s speech appears below:
Some of you may remember that earlier this year, Republicans shut me out of a hearing on contraception. In fact, on that panel, they didn’t hear from a single woman, even though they were debating an issue that affects nearly every woman. Because it happened in Congress, people noticed. But it happens all the time. Many women are shut out and silenced. So while I’m honored to be standing at this podium, it easily could have been any one of you. I’m here because I spoke out, and this November, each of us must do the same.
During this campaign, we’ve heard about the two profoundly different futures that could await women—and how one of those futures looks like an offensive, obsolete relic of our past. Warnings of that future are not distractions. They’re not imagined. That future could be real.
In that America, your new president could be a man who stands by when a public figure tries to silence a private citizen with hateful slurs. Who won’t stand up to the slurs, or to any of the extreme, bigoted voices in his own party. It would be an America in which you have a new vice president who co-sponsored a bill that would allow pregnant women to die preventable deaths in our emergency rooms. An America in which states humiliate women by forcing us to endure invasive ultrasounds we don’t want and our doctors say we don’t need. An America in which access to birth control is controlled by people who will never use it; in which politicians redefine rape so survivors are victimized all over again; in which someone decides which domestic violence victims deserve help, and which don’t. We know what this America would look like. In a few short months, it’s the America we could be. But it’s not the America we should be. It’s not who we are.
We’ve also seen another future we could choose. First of all, we’d have the right to choose. It’s an America in which no one can charge us more than men for the exact same health insurance; in which no one can deny us affordable access to the cancer screenings that could save our lives; in which we decide when to start our families. An America in which our president, when he hears a young woman has been verbally attacked, thinks of his daughters—not his delegates or donors—and stands with all women. And strangers come together, reach out and lift her up. And then, instead of trying to silence her, you invite me here—and give me a microphone—to amplify our voice. That’s the difference.
Over the last six months, I’ve seen what these two futures look like. And six months from now, we’ll all be living in one, or the other. But only one. A country where our president either has our back or turns his back; a country that honors our foremothers by moving us forward, or one that forces our generation to re-fight the battles they already won; a country where we mean it when we talk about personal freedom, or one where that freedom doesn’t apply to our bodies and our voices.
Republicans need to turn these arguments back against the Dems. For example, this one - Obamacare would have ALL of us dying in emergency rooms.
When Dems say that the Ryan plan will increase taxes on the middle class, reply, that Obama’s deficits will require huge tax increases on the middle class.
Do they have the guts? unlikely.
Instead of Sandra Fluke, upset that she has to pay for her own birth control pills, why isn’t the democratic convention full of speakers like Pam Finlayson, the woman who was helped by Mitt Romney?
Where are the people who were helped personally by Barack Hussein Obama? Where are they? Surely there has to be one, right?
Large parts of the dem base are delusional and believes whatever they are told.
I watched bubba give his speech last night and some of the worst lies he told they panned at the crowd and people were nodding their head in agreement.
In Flukes case, maybe,
but for most Pro-choice, pro-abortion folks, it’s a matter of justifying an abortion they’ve already participated in, either having it, or supporting and encouraging that decision on another person.
They know, viscerally, that it was a murder, but they don’t want to think of themselves that way, so they spend their lives justifying it.
Of course there is!
Just look how lovingly he helped his destitute brother in Kenya.
How is it millions of people fail to see that if he doesn't care for his own flesh and blood he surely won't give a damn about them?
Republican presidents from 1969-1977, 1981-1993, 2001-2009. Republicans controlled both houses of congress from 1995-2007. Republican had both the presidency and both houses of congress from 2003-2007.
And women didn’t die. Her claims are fear-mongering and ridiculous.
The party that preaches concerns for the female victims of sexual assault, while simultaneously worshipping a former president who created female victims of sexual assault. Hypocrisy is a massive understatement.
My, my, what an hysterical little woman.
She must have the vapors.
right, his brother wasn’t helped by him, either.
Jim Quinn is the one who brought this up during America’s Morning Show today. Michelle Obama talks about how Barack Hussein Obama chose the community organizer life instead of making money, even though they live in a multi million dollar home. But, he hasn’t personally (that means out of the goodness of his own heart) helped anyone????????
Spread the lie that Wymyn must die! All because we don’t want to be made to pay for your chosen behavior, subsidizing your whoredom...
Conversely, Thank you Rush for helping put a pathetic face on the left. Between her and Fauxahantas, that was an embarrassing display. The whole war on women attack fell flat in the spring, and only got a rebirth because of Akin a few weeks ago. I doubt it moves the needle at all. If anything, their pathetic speeches when compared the the many self-made, well spoken speakers at the RNC provide a clear contrast.
Sandra Fluke:
My body!
My choice!
(Your money.)
It’s odd.
Obama and Sandra Fluke have been totally quiet on the attacks made towards Sarah Palin and her daughter Bristol.
Obama and Sandra Fluke have said nothing about Laura Ingraham being called names by Ed Schultz.
Obama and Sandra Fluke have said nothing about the vicious attacks on conservative women by Bill Maher.
Obama and Sandra Fluke have been totally quiet on the vicious twitter attacks on Ann Romney and Janna Ryan by liberals.
All of that is just fine with them.
That is why C-Sections are done.....
Now what is she going to do about the fact that Breast Cancer screenings for women in their 70’s is going to be stopped under 0’care?
https://www.youtube.com/embed/6e3udzHIiVs?feature=player_detailpage
This women lives in some bizarre alternate universe where the United States is run by mullahs hell-bent on subjugating women.
Ironically, the man most in need of hearing Fluke's message was the big ticket speaker of the night, Billy Jeff Clinton.
Sometimes....just sometimes.....I think in a “perfect liberal world”, Planned Parenthood and NOW would be walking around with machetes, slashing babies out of pregnant women on the street. The absolute hatred for the sanctity of the miracle of reproduction is amazing.
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