What do we want?
Free Condoms!
When do we want them?
NOW!
Posted on 02/28/2012 8:15:09 PM PST by SeekAndFind
At a hearing of the House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee yesterday, a single witness — Georgetown law student and “reproductive rights activist” Sandra Fluke — told sympathetic policy-makers that the administration’s so-called contraception mandate should stand … because her peers are going broke buying birth control.
“Forty percent of the female students at Georgetown Law reported to us that they struggled financially as a result of this policy (Georgetown student insurance not covering contraception),” Fluke reported.
It costs a female student $3,000 to have protected sex over the course of her three-year stint in law school, according to her calculations.
“Without insurance coverage, contraception, as you know, can cost a woman over $3,000 during law school,” Fluke told the hearing.
Craig Bannister at CNSNews.com did the math — and discovered that these co-eds, assuming they’re using the cheapest possible contraception, must be having unprotected sex about three times a day every day to incur that kind of expense. What Fluke is arguing, then, is that her fellow law students have a right to consequence-free sex whenever, wherever. Why, exactly, especially if it costs other people something? When I can’t pay for something, I do without it. Fortunately, in the case of contraception, women can make lifestyle choices that render it unnecessary.
At one point, Fluke mentions a friend who felt “embarrassed and powerless” when she learned her insurance didn’t cover contraception. Can you imagine how proud and empowered that same friend would be if she learned she has the ability to resist her own sexual urges? We can only assume she doesn’t know that because Fluke and she both labor under the illusion that contraception is a medical necessity.
Some little part of Fluke must recognize that it’s not … because she sought to bolster her argument with an example of an illness in which contraception might be a medically necessary treatment. Another friend of hers, she said, has polycystic ovarian syndrome, for which contraception is a common treatment. Some insurance programs that don’t cover contraception normally would nevertheless cover it as a treatment for PCOS — but other insurance programs wouldn’t. Fluke makes it sound like contraception is the only treatment for PCOS. In fact, it isn’t — and contraception is prescribed as a treatment only when the woman also wants to contracept. Fluke says her friend is a lesbian — and so wouldn’t need contraception. Why didn’t she opt for any of the other treatments, then?
At the end of her testimony, Fluke spoke in strong language of her resentment of university administrators and others who suggest she should have chosen to attend a different university that would have offered student insurance that does cover contraception — even if that other university wasn’t quite as prestigious as Georgetown.
“We refuse to pick between a quality education and our health and we resent that, in the 21st Century, anyone thinks it’s acceptable to ask us to make that choice simply because we are women,” Fluke said.
Ms. Fluke, I resent that you think women are incapable of controlling themselves, of sacrificing temporary pleasure for the sake of long-term success. You make us sound like animals, slaves to our instincts and able to be used, but we’re better than that. We’re persons, equal to men in dignity and love.
I was in the dollar store recently, and they sell condoms. I wouldn’t trust them, but they’re available. Heck, what does Planned Parenthood do with the money we give them?
What do we want?
Free Condoms!
When do we want them?
NOW!
Let’s be clear what we’re talking about:
This is a mandatory health plan for all students at the college. The cost is $1895 IF only the student is covered, and it is a year term coverage. It carries a $200 deductible if you DARE use any medical service outside of the college clinic.
That is $157 a month. A comparable Blue Cross plan comes out to $120 a month. A more suitable plan for a healthy college student would run $79 a month.
So first, the plan is twice as expensive as is likely needed for any college student. Second, hells bells, you’re already paying $157 a month, what, you want to pay MORE?
The plan also specifically says ‘no Viagra.’ Birth control is generic in terms, but look at how they go after the men and specifically rule out Viagra as a possible prescription drug benefit.
But let’s say it /was/ a specific benefit. What’s the copay for ‘birth control pills’? $30 per prescription filled. You know, the same price it is at Walmart if you don’t have a prescription.
So - 1) Why is a college requiring health insurance? And mind, it is automatically charged to the student before any fees are collected for anything else. 2) You’re paying $157 a month for a pretty useless ‘all access’ pass to the University health center, which, well, for most colleges was always considered a freebie.. 3) You’re being overcharged for even this, nearly double the price of a typical commercial coverage. (individual rate, not group rate..) 4) Even if it did cover birth control pills, you’d still be paying the same charge you would for pills from Walmart. 5) You get to pay 20% of the cost of the visit (after $200 deductible) just to get your prescription anyway!
Lesson to students at Georgetown: How about auditing that economics course, stupid?
“This really isn’t satire?”
Sorry!
Great post!
I just read the transcript of her testimony. There must be an epidemic of PCOS among the college aged population or something. She says an insurance company, unnamed, refused to believe her friend suffered from PCOS and thus refused to cover the hormonal birth controlills that could help to stop cyst growth. Proof of multiple cysts should have been easy to prove via ultrasound. How was the friend diagnosed? Her friend must not have been too concerned until she lost an ovary. This Fluke child is full of sob stories. There are resources in the DC area. I can’t believe these geniuses cannot figure out how to access them.
She complains that it has been suggested that she go to a cheaper law school. Whine whine whine. You don’t have to go to the most expensive school to receive a quality education. I am still shocked that this selfish uninformed girl scored high enough to be admitted to Georgetown Law.
Someone should do a study on the increase in PCOS cases and the use of morning after contraceptives. This girl should look into it and make a mint off exposing the pharmaceutical malpractice. (my opinion here. I haven’t done any scientific study.)
She spent so much $ on contraceptives there was no $ left to buy a razor before her testimony?
BTW, Georgetown Law tuition: Full time students (12-16 credit hours) $23,432.50 per semester.
http://www.law.georgetown.edu/finaff/studaccts/billingPaymentEntering.html
Abstain. Marital sex is for othe married. You are committing a grave (mortal) sin and if you died tonight you would end up in hell.
Abstain. Marital sex is for the married. You are committing a grave (mortal) sin and if you died tonight you would end up in hell.
I agree with her. Her and women like her need to be paid after having sex. Whores need money too!
Sounds like my Big Lots rule: I don’t buy it if it has any moving parts.
Wow, no wonder women lawyers support destroyed skanks the nation over.
That $23,500 tuition does not include the nearly $2000 required health insurance policy (waiver available if you’ve got an approved equivalent insurance policy...)
And I thought the US Army was the only place where girls were more STD dangerous than German prostitutes... I was wrong. Georges Town women’s lawyers seem to have them beat bad.
I always ask that question, especialy when Libertarians talk to me about liberalizing recreational-drugs (another hyphen), proving they are druggies.
I mean, drug is drug, and I should be able to grow my own medicine. I am not interested in liberalizing "recreation", it is redundant and oxymoronic in its idle nature.
You couldn’t pay me to hit this creature. She ought to be paying others for having sex with her.
If I was there I would have told her to go f*ck herself.
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