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First Lady: Cost-Free Contraception Is ‘Basic Preventive Care’
CNS News ^ | October 3, 2012 | Fred Lucas

Posted on 10/03/2012 1:14:55 PM PDT by kingattax

First lady Michelle Obama called contraception “basic preventative care” and invoked her daughters before talking about women’s “decisions about our bodies” during a campaign fundraising event Tuesday.

The first lady spoke at the Westin Hotel in Seattle where, according to the White House press pool report, about 700 attended, paying between $500 and $10,000.

“Insurance companies now have to cover basic preventative care – things like contraception, cancer screenings – at no out-of-pocket cost,” Michelle Obama said, referring to the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare. “They won’t be able to discriminate against you because you have a preexisting condition like diabetes or even asthma.”

A product of the new health care law was a regulation issued by the Department of Health and Human Services that requires all employer-health insurance plans to provide free abortifacients, sterilization and contraception.

Numerous religious organizations and other employers have sued the administration over the mandate because such a regulation would violate the First Amendment guarantee to free exercise of religion.

The first lady went on to talk about her husband President Barack Obama’s commitment to women.

“Believe me, today, as a father, he knows what it means to want our daughters to have the same freedoms and opportunities as our sons, and that is why the first bill he signed into law was to make sure that women get equal pay for equal work,” the first lady said.

“And that is why my husband will always, always fight to ensure that we, as women, can make our own decisions about our bodies and our health care,” she added.


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To: kingattax
Listen, your Wookieness,

There ain't no free lunch and I'm tired of buying yours.

21 posted on 10/03/2012 1:33:44 PM PDT by stboz
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To: kingattax
Believe me, today, as a father, he knows what it means to want our daughters to have the same freedoms and opportunities as our sons

Being a leftist, by this she means, "being able to fornicate without consequences".

22 posted on 10/03/2012 1:38:12 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: kingattax

To liberals, unprotected sex without consequences is an entitlement.


23 posted on 10/03/2012 1:41:06 PM PDT by Wiser now (Socialism does not eliminate poverty, it guarantees it.)
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To: kingattax

First lady Michelle Obama called contraception “basic preventative care”

So the First Lady believes babies to be a disease?


24 posted on 10/03/2012 1:41:47 PM PDT by SECURE AMERICA (Where can I sign up for the New American Revolution and the Crusades 2012?)
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To: kingattax
Well, it's just too bad that Michele's mother-in-law didn't have free and easy contraception back in the very early 1960’s!
25 posted on 10/03/2012 1:42:41 PM PDT by Swede Girl
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To: kingattax

As a medical professional, I can say that pregnancy is the Normal Healthy state of the uterus (she brought it up), so, they are NOT preventing illness.

Witches- all of ‘em.


26 posted on 10/03/2012 1:46:25 PM PDT by stanne
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To: kingattax

Contraception PREVENTS life.

Democrats are anti-life.

Makes sense.


27 posted on 10/03/2012 1:47:24 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (You didn't build that. The private sector is doing fine. We tried our plan and it worked.)
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To: kingattax

Then a parachute must be basic preventative care for people who decide to jump out of an airplane. Where do I get my free parachute?


28 posted on 10/03/2012 1:58:25 PM PDT by LostPassword
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To: kingattax


29 posted on 10/03/2012 2:12:18 PM PDT by Iron Munro (US Embassies Come and Go But An Obama Apology Lasts Forever)
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To: kingattax

women’s “decisions about our bodies” - is Moochell talking about what women can eat? ;)


30 posted on 10/03/2012 2:14:26 PM PDT by Blue Turtle
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To: kingattax

First maybe someday honest people will call this HC legislation for what it really is: “Obama’s CommieCare

Second a much stronger case can be made for ED medication being covered than contraceptives which are not for an actual medical condition in all but the most rare instances. At least ED is a valid medical condition but who cares as all legislation seems geared to who is the most emotional.


31 posted on 10/03/2012 2:21:57 PM PDT by Wurlitzer (Nothing says "ignorance" like Islam!)
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First Lady: Cost-Free Contraception Is ‘Basic Preventive Care’

Too bad her mother's birth control failed.


32 posted on 10/03/2012 2:37:41 PM PDT by Iron Munro (US Embassies Come and Go But An Obama Apology Lasts Forever)
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To: kingattax

” - - - a regulation issued by the Department of Health and Human Services that requires all employer-health insurance plans to provide free abortifacients, sterilization and contraception.”

BTW, what is the difference between a dictate and a regulation?


33 posted on 10/03/2012 2:47:24 PM PDT by Graewoulf ((Traitor John Roberts' Obama"care" violates Sherman Anti-Trust Law, AND the U.S. Constitution.))
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To: kingattax

I am so FED UP with having this CRAP disguised as equality or women’s rights or compassion or whatever the hell they want to call it, crammed down our throats.

I do not support my tax dollars being spent on your women Michelle.

Here’s a question for you, Michelle: If it’s “free choice” to have an abortion, why isn’t it free CHOICE not to have SEX unless and until a woman can PURCHASE HER OWN contraceptives??? Or split the cost with her partner? Huh? Is a woman destined to have unprotected sex? Is it because she’s a “victim” that she can’t decide to get contraceptives herself?

Honestly, this is an absurd thought process to start with, but I tell you what- it INFURIATES me that I’m now forced to pay for some irresponsible girl’s birth control pills. It is NOT MY RESPONSIBILITY.


34 posted on 10/03/2012 2:56:11 PM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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"Two years ago, we made history together by finally passing health reform, and because we passed this law, insurance companies will now have to cover basic preventive care--
things like prenatal care, mammograms, contraception--at no extra cost."

~Michelle Obama




Please click the pic


35 posted on 10/03/2012 2:57:52 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: kingattax

This is why I’m Pro Choice - I believe all Dems should be aborted. Pre or post birth; doesn’t matter to me.


36 posted on 10/03/2012 2:58:23 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Democrats are dangerous and evil. Republicans are just useful idiots.)
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To: Iron Munro

That’s not a man it’s a wookie.


37 posted on 10/03/2012 3:16:01 PM PDT by South40 ("Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance." - Barack Hussein Obama - Cairo, Egypt, June 4, 2009.)
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To: kingattax

Michelles full of crap. There are no such things as no out of pocket costs. Its in your premium.


38 posted on 10/03/2012 3:41:51 PM PDT by linn37 (Newt supporter here.)
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To: kingattax

God provided us with cost free contraception! The knowledge snd self control are too much for most I guess.


39 posted on 10/03/2012 4:10:39 PM PDT by Michigander222
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To: kingattax

It’s like we have two presidents. /s


40 posted on 10/03/2012 4:31:54 PM PDT by Crucial (Tolerance at the expense of equal treatment is the path to tyranny.)
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