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.
to die in emergency rooms! Hey, after pushing that grannie over the cliff, what's a few more? After the first one... 
the rest come easy--
She is repulsive. I little college middle aged brat on the socialist podium.
For the umteenth time, I don’t want to hear about your personal social or sexual choices, period. You are a bimbo, nothing more or less. The fact that Georgetown even has you on campus shows how low they will go ethically.
Can’t we just all go back to the good old days, where women who wanted to cut their kids up into pieces, suck out the remains, and toss away the body parts, did it with THEIR OWN money?
I mean — remember the drama of two lovebirds, trying to scrape together the money for the abortion? Somehow “Johnny” would always find the money somehow . ..they’d get all crazy, going behind everyone’s backs, keeping it all hush hush. There just used to be this dirty romantic element to it.
Now it’s all out in the open — they just beg Catholic and others who don’t believe it it, for THEIR money. Crass beyond belief.
The world is really just basically in the handbasket at this point.
“your new president could be a man who stands by when a public figure tries to silence a private citizen with hateful slurs”
Uh, is she talking about a certain chicken sandwich restaurant?
...where they are lying because Mitt Romney gave them cancer...
I can’t be sure but I think we just found the “whore of Babylon”.
More like the "Harlot of Charlotte."
It sounds like the condom lady is the DemocRATS’ new “rising star”.
LOL... pretty much
I wonder what she and Bill Clinton did after the convention speeches? She would be the ideal type for old horn dog Bill...just hope she got someone to pay for her birth control and the cigars.
Facts such as you have just stated, do not matter to liberals. The liberals are hung up on this business that women will be impaled on coat hangers, and their belief that conservatives are actually in favor of women being so impaled.
Rush, you had the pig pegged.
...so calling someone a “slut” is hateful and out of bounds, but suggesting someone wants women to “die on the emergency room floor” is okay?
Another day in Obamaland. :)
I think Hillary is already spoken for.
I DID laugh out loud!
Hitler rants about Sandra Fluke. Everyone else has his/her way with her, but she resists Adolph’s advances.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aehfgtpe0w
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