Posted on 10/31/2012 8:44:23 AM PDT by IbJensen
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.”
Someone needs to explain to this twit the difference between UNWANTED and UNPLANNED.
None of my three children were planned, but once they got here, they certainly were wanted!
How about ‘wanted’ children, are the they ‘road to success’? What a creepola.
Thanks.
Now there seems to be increasing speculation that Sandra Fluke might be a great grandchild of Fabian/Progressive Founder of Planned Parenthood and the Negro Project whose beliefs are rooted in eugenics. The speculation began when someone noticed how much Sanger and Fluke look alike.
Margaret Sanger
Sandra Fluke
http://truehealthistruewealth.blogspot.com/2012/03/fluke-thickens-are-sanger-and-fluke.html
I pray to God this woman STAYS on birth control and NEVER EVER has a child.
With her attitudes, can you imagine how awful that child’s life will be?
Oh come on, to some big fat smelly toothless bastard, with hair on his back...
what a selfish little twit she is.. an obamamaid
Here’s hoping she never does give birth..
the kids would carry guilt all their living days of how they held their Mommy back.
As awful as it sounds, I would give serious thought to paying for her contraception myself so she does not ever have a child.
Slut Control is not among the enumerated powers, the Constitution allocated to the Federal Government.
Why buy the cow, when the milk tastes so dang bad?
No dear Sandra....children are not “barriers” - nor do they “derail” anything.
Despite what your hero Obama says...they are not a punishment either.
Anyone who believes all these terrible things about children should not engage in activity that produces children.
Dear Sandra,
Rubbers are fifty cents, chastity is free. Buy your own birth control if you want to play. Ain’t my responsibility.
yeah unwanted child didn’t seem to hurt Obamas mama or daddy they just abandoned him and looki what we got....
Excellent.
Now that you have done the important part, go back and get the Doctorate (if you still want to).
When I am gone, all that will really be important are the lives I have affected, the love I have given, the lessons I have taught (learned and passed on). Those will endure in the minds and hearts of those who go on, and perhaps be passed on yet again. All else is just stuff.
Come to think of it, she may be on to something...
Liberals ARE like unwanted children, and they ARE a barrier to success.
Just sayin’...
Exactly....can you imagine if the parents of these weirdos spoke about THEM that way?
It doesn’t even occur to them.
A woman would couldn’t draw a dozen people to a political rally lectures us on “success”.
It is to laugh...
God: “Children are my reward to you.”
The left: “Children are a punishment and a barrier to personal success.”
When Sandra is 45, will she and her “partner” be paying some surrogate to have a baby for them?
Inquiring minds
If all hurricane Sandy Fluke did was blow, she wouldn’t need birth control...
exactly.....I too will soon be moving onto a different phase after many years at home.
It will be difficult and people who did not make the choice I made will always have more seniority and salary.
But I am OK with that.
A long time ago I knew this what the gig was all about.
I would never describe my kids as barriers - disadvantages - burdens - or punishments.
They have added so much more to my life than a job title or highter income tax bracket.
I wouldn’t change a thing.
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