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Obama Touts Women’s Rights Record in Colorado Speech

HeadlineAug 09, 2012

President Obama campaigned in the key battleground state of Colorado on Wednesday with a speech highlighting his record on women’s rights. Obama said Republicans want to roll back women’s healthcare choices to the 1950s.

President Obama: “When it comes to a woman’s right to make her own healthcare choices, they want to take us back to the policies more suited to the 1950s than the 21st century. And, Colorado, you’ve got to make sure it does not happen. The decisions that affect a woman’s health, they’re not up to politicians. They’re not up to insurance companies. They’re up to you.”

Obama was introduced at the event by Sandra Fluke, the recent graduate of Georgetown University law student who came under right-wing attack earlier this year after she spoke out for insurance coverage of contraception.

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