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Sandra Fluke: Two profoundly different futures await women

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    Women's rights activist tells the DNC: Obama thinks of his daughters, not his delegates or donors

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-- -- -- You may remember -- That earlier this -- Republicans shut me out.

Of hearing on contraception.

In fact on that you know.

They didn't hear from a single woman.

Even they -- debating an issue don't that a fact nearly every woman.

Because it happened in congress.

People noticed.

But it happens all the time.

Too many women are shot out and silent.

So while I -- Honored.

To be standing at this podium.

Easily could've been anyone -- you.

I'm here.

Because I spoke out.

-- -- -- -- -- -- of god must speak out.

During this campaign.

We've heard about to probe found only difference.

Futures that could -- women in this country.

-- one of those futures.

Looks like an offensive.

Obsolete.

Relic of our past.

Warned that future not distractions.

They are not imagine that future could become real.

And -- America.

You our new president.

Could be a man.

Who stands side.

When a public figure.

Tries island a private citizen.

With hateful sellers.

Who's they -- stand up to those slurs.

Or to any -- geeks dream big -- voices in his own party.

It would be -- America act -- -- you -- -- new vice president.

-- cosponsored.

A bill that would allow pregnant women.

To die of preventable deaths.

In our emergency rooms.

An American.

In which states humiliate women.

-- forcing us to indoor invasive ultrasound.

That we don't want.

And our doctors saying that we don't meet.

America in -- access to birth control is controlled by people who will never use six.

America back.

It -- politician.

Redefine.

Rape.

And victims.

Are victimized all over it.

-- -- someone decide.

Which domestic violence victims deserves.

Access to services.

And which.

Don't.

We know what that America would look like.

And in a few short months.

At the America that we could be.

But that's not the America that we should be and it's not who we are.

We've got that CNN another America that we -- -- is.

In that America.

-- have the right to choose.

It's an America.

-- which no one can charge us more than men for the exact same health insurance.

It would no one can deny not affordable access to the cancer screening that could save our lives.

In -- and we decide when to start our family at.

In America in which our president.

When he -- that a young woman has been verbally attacked.

Think snap of his daughter's.

Not his delicate whereas Jonas.

A.

-- -- it's hard evidence.

-- and went all the women.

And strangers.

Come together.

And reached out.

And lift her up.

And then.

Instead of trying to silence her.

You invite me here.

And you give me that microphone.

You amplify.

Our boys.

That's.

The difference.

Over the last six months.

I've seen what these two futures looked like.

And six months from now.

We're all going to be living in one future.

Or the other.

But only one.

A country where our president either -- our back.

-- turns his back.

But I'm afraid.

That honored her for mother's.

Mind moving hot spot -- it.

-- one that force is our generation to re fight -- that they already won.

A country where we mean it's.

When we talk about personal freedom.

Or one quit that freedom doesn't apply to our bodies -- to our -- did.

We talked often about choice.

Well -- laid it.

And gentlemen.

It now.

Time to choose.

A.