Fluke: Birth Control Can Save the Economy!

In reaction to Mike Huckabee's speech at the Republican National Committee winter meeting Wednesday, contraception advocate Sandra Fluke teamed with Planned Parenthood to offer her insights on how birth control helps women prevent one of life's biggest economic burdens -- children.

Fluke has a message for Huckabee and other "for-profit corporations" who want to deny their employees access to birth control:

Women who use birth control do not have an “overactive libido.” We are not looking for a handout from “Uncle Sugar” to score a contraceptive fix. We are not sluts.
We are just regular people trying to take care of ourselves medically and financially.

Not only does Fluke believe that birth control helps women financially, but mentally as well:

Birth control is vitally important to women’s physical and mental health, since it enables them to plan their pregnancies and manage their lives, expanding their opportunities.

And it can single-handedly fix the nation's economic woes:

Access to birth control is not just a health issue; it’s an economic issue. When women can control their lives with birth control, they can help the economy. It allows them to take better care of themselves and their families, support themselves financially, complete their education, and keep or get a job.

Slyly, the term "birth control" is now being used as a euphemism for abortion. For Fluke, and other leftist feminists like her, a pesky fetus is an avoidable "health issue" that can be cured by using birth control or even emergency contraception, which is essentially a high dose of "birth control."

In doing so, women's mental health can be improved, women can finally get a job or finish school, finally manage their lives, expand their opportunities and most importantly, impact the United States economy. Oh, but they'll need the government to provide all that birth control. Whatever did they do before it was all free?

“Access to birth control is not just a health issue; it’s an economic issue. When women can control their lives with birth control, they can help the economy. It allows them to take better care of themselves and their families, support themselves financially, complete their education, and keep or get a job.”

My goodness, how did the economy ever manage to grow at all before the birth control mandate in Obamacare? She’s just sooooo smart! Ever notice just how smart some of these liberals are? And their brilliance cuts across so many different subjects. Sandra Fluke is just sooooo smart.

FTA: "...corporations who want to deny their employees access to birth control..."

Since condoms are already available at virtually every grocery store, drugstore, convenience store, and truckstop at prices lower than a candy bar, and for free--- by the handful --- from County Health Departments and Student Wellness Centers, and publicly-funded clinics, there could hardly be more "access" f they were in every bag of M&M's as well.

And with high school and college students regularly lectured about condom use for at least the past 25 years, and with over 725 million dollars annually in condom sales in the United States alone--- 65 million people in the USA have STD's, and the rate of HPV infection among US women is roughly 80%.

When Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders was Arkansas Health Director from 1987 to 1992, she pushed condoms by every means possible, including in 24 high schools. The results were predictable. The teen pregnancy rate in Arkansas rose 17 percent between 1989 to 1992, the syphilis rate among teenagers rose 130 percent, and the HIV rate rose 150 percent."

So we've known this for a long time.

Getting a clue?

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