Apparently the DNC bosses felt their convention needed more shrill feminist.

Via ABC News:

The Obama campaign will later today send out a mass e-mail to supporters from abortion rights activist Sandra Fluke criticizing the comments of embattled Missouri Senate candidate Rep. Todd Akin, R-Mo., and trying to tie them to the GOP presidential platform, ABC News has learned. […]

Fluke will also be announced as a speaker at the Democratic National Convention.