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August 9, 2012

Obama Touts Women’s Rights Record in Colorado Speech 
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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 school who came under right-wing attack
earlier this year after she spoke out for insurance coverage of
contraception.