Barack Obama urged young American women to fight for their
right to contraception and abortions, as Left-wing allies accused Mitt Romney
of "throwing women under the bus" by seeking a crackdown.
The US president told students graduating from an elite
all-women's college in New York that they would face challenges to their
equality in the workplace and to their right to "control your own
health", noting that politicians were "relighting long-settled
battles over women's rights".
"We are better off when women are treated fairly and
equally in every respect, whether it is the salary you earn or the health
decisions that you make," Mr Obama said at Barnard College. "Fight
for your seat at the table, or better yet, fight for a seat at the head of the
table."
His remarks threatened to reignite a row over the rights of
women in modern America that his re-election campaign has tried to keep alive
beyond the Republican party's presidential primary contest.
Mr Obama's Democrats claim the Republicans are waging a
"war on women" by attempting to crack down on their abortion rights
and making it more difficult to obtain birth control.
In a thinly-veiled attack on Mr Romney, Mr Obama said in his
speech that "those who have opposed change" have lost in the past.
"I believe they will lose this time as well," he said.
Culled from The Telegraph
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