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.
I remember that time that Paul Ryan and my church worked together to control my access to my medicine.
Oh wait. No, I don’t. Because it didn’t happen. Huh.
Oh but I remember those scores of women who died in emergency rooms because of...wait. No. That didn’t happen either.
Man. It’s hard trying to pretend that there’s a war on me, waged by people who supposedly only see me as a walking uterus. So say the people who take any issue related to my uterus and go “WAR ON WOMEN!” as if my anatomy is my biggest concern in life. It’s not like people are trying to make it harder to screen for breast cancer, or telling me that in order to succeed I need to be open to the idea of killing any child I conceive, or telling me I can’t carry a handgun to protect myself unless I can prove that there is a specific threat to me (and even then good luck getting a permit, and even then it will be revoked as soon as there’s enough time without incident). My financial security isn’t jeopardized by the increasing tax burden on me, that desperately tries to pay off a debt taken out (supposedly on my behalf but I never see the benefits) without my permission. I don’t have to worry that when I have children, they’ll be saddled with the same debt, and have to care for me because even though I’ve paid into social security (so that money is lost to me forever) it will be gone by the time I’m unable to work anymore and I won’t have half as much in savings as I would have if I’d been able to save and invest that money on my own. I’m not concerned that one party is trying its hardest to turn me into a leech, and lowering the defense budget while we have enemies who are looking to hurt us and I have my future children and grandchildren to worry about, and God forbid I move to a border state that offers more protection to dangerous illegal immigrants than it does to me as a property owner.
Mostly all I have to worry about as a woman is that the government won’t force my employer to buy one medication for me. It’s a vapid life, I know, but after all, I’m a woman. What can you expect me to worry about?
Whats she concerned about ???
Willard is just as pro-abortion as Obama is...
But it IS happening in the UK -- where they have their own version of Obamacare.
And it's FREE.....!!!
As someone who is chronically ill, Obamacare is a nightmare come true. I’m dreading the day the government decides there is no value in treating me.
I once told a socialized healthcare fanatic that I think the only ethical thing to do when you have socialized healthcare is to deny the old and the infirm first when the money runs out, because it’s the most cost-effective way to do things and you have an obligation to treat the most people for the least amount of money when it’s being financed with taxes. He was just appalled. “No, no, you can’t do that! Governments can’t do that! That’s not fair!”
“Oh yeah? What stops them?”
He couldn’t answer that.
Like Tonya Reaves in Chicago?
The Dems are already letting women die in emergency rooms.
What about the women who die in abortion clinics or are sent to hospitals afterward with no explanation to help the doctors treat them? Other women go home after having abortions and then bleed to death.
Contraceptives that Democrats want can cause fatal blood clots.
Having Ms. Fluke invited to speak only shows the Dems’ desperation. It was the worst speech I have ever heard... about an imaginary problem of women being silenced in America.
Also...advocating for killing babies? Honestly, what kind of person does this? She is disgusting and vile and I sincerely hope that she looks back on that moment in shame someday.
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