No. She did not. I suggest you read her statement. The lefty Sandra Fluke never testifies that she even took birth control or had sex.
She stated that she is so sexually active that her cost of birth control is $3000 and that she wants someone other than herself to pay for it.
No. She did not. That is not in her testimony. She said that for some women in law school birth control cost $3000. She said she earned only $3000 last summer as a public interest (read: liberal activist) intern.
The ridiculous Ms. Fluke was trotted out as an expert on how women need contraception for reasons unrelated to sex, and how many women aren't covered for contraception, and what a financial strain it puts on them - all because she's been involved in leftist groups in college and law school. She's not an expert, which is why she wasn't allowed to testify before Congress. So the Democrats let her speak to them - without being sworn under oath - and the news media covered it as if it were a Congressional hearing.
But Fluke never mentioned her own contraception a single time. She never mentioned having sex herself once. She never mentioned her own cost of contraception a single time.
Right after the introduction, Fluke said:
"When I look around my campus, I see the faces of the women affected by this lack of contraceptive coverage. [I]n the last week, I have heard more and more of their stories. On a daily basis, I hear yet from another woman from Georgetown or from another school or who works for a religiously-affiliated employer, and they tell me that they have suffered financially and emotionally and medically because of this lack of coverage.“And so, I’m here today to share their voices, and I want to thank you for allowing them – not me – to be heard.
Then Fluke mentioned six other women (who may or may not even exist) and 'low-income women).
Here's what Fluke said. I ask: Where did Fluke mention her own sex life? Fluke said:
(1) one woman (not Fluke) felt embarrassed and powerless when she 'learned for the first time that contraception was not covered on her insurance and she had to turn and walk away because she couldn’t afford that prescription';
(2) a married female student told Fluke that she had to stop using contraception because "she and her husband just couldn’t fit it into their budget anymore;"
(3) 'women employed in low-wage jobs without contraceptive coverage can't fit contraception into their budgets;'
(4) a friend has polycystic ovarian syndrome, and her birth control prescription is 'technically covered by Georgetown’s insurance because it’s not intended to prevent pregnancy', but the *gay* friend was denied coverage because the insurance company decided that she really wanted birth control to prevent pregnancy;
(5) a woman said doctors believe she has endometriosis, but that can’t be proven without surgery, so the insurance won't cover birth control pills for endometriosis;
(6) another woman told Fluke that she also has polycystic ovarian syndrome and Georgetown quit paying for it last August;
and (7) one woman (a really bright woman, apparently) allegedly knew about Georgetown's unwillingness to cover birth control, so when she was raped she didn't seek medical attention because she thought Georgetown didn't cover women's health issues.
Then she said that when 'we' women came to Georgetown we expected women to be treated fairly and to care for all of 'our' medical needs.
If true, a carefully collected bunch of stories that are the wide exception - and even then, we have to force Roman Catholic Universities to provide birth control because a woman is too stupid to seek care for a rape because her birth control isn't paid for?
But . . . Fluke didn't talk about herself, and Rush Limbaugh was an idiot and went on and on about how Luke talked about how much sex she was having, and how her parents must be so proud, and how she was a slut and a prostitute.
Rush screwed this up for conservatives. We had the moral high ground on the issue of Obama trying to force healthcare plans funded by religious groups to provide this kind of preventive care against religious beliefs. Now, because Rush wanted to be cute and to call the lefty blowhard Sandra Fluke a slut and a prostitute, and to talk repeatedly about how Sandra Fluke told Congress about all the sex she was having - he had to apologize, everyone in the media has a factual basis to claim that Rush Limbaugh spouts off without knowing or sticking to the facts, and what people will remember about this issue isn't that Obama was trying a power play, but that Rush called Sandra Fluke a slut (and was wrong).
And because Rush said it, we have a whole group of conservatives who didn't listen to the testimony, or read it, who assume Rush was basing his statements on fact - and they're going to stick to that. Rush should have attacked all of this stories Fluke told (while not under oath) about other women, and the figures on the cost of birth control, and statistics, that Fluke used. But he went personal and accused her of saying stuff she never said a single time. Note that Fluke didn't talk about her own sex life or even say whether she was straight and had sex. And we don't know if she's straight. Her degree from Cornell.Her degree is in Policy Analysis & Management and Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies (which explains going to law school - that undergraduate degree is really, really useful on its own). At Cornel, she protested a pro-life display when she was an officer of Cornel's Students Acting for Gender Equality (SAGE). Fluke is a blowhard activist. She immediately got involved in Law Students for Reproductive Justice, the International Women's Human Rights Clinic, the Women's Legal Alliance, the Journal of Gender and the Law. That $3,000 public interest job she had was at the Womens Lawyers Association of Los Angeles.
I don't know that you're going to find a sexual partner of Sandra Fluke who requires contraceptives.
But on FR we need to quit repeating the lie that Sandra Fluke 'testified' about all of her sex. Because she didn't testify about any of her sex or any of her birth control.
if only everyone was this informed.. Her testimony did not warrant the name calling and Rush stepped in it bigtime, and he knows it, which is why he apologized.
I’ll never buy from the sponsors that dropped Rush like I don’t buy from the sponsors that dropped Glenn. We’re actually going to buy a case of tea.
Actually, Rush’s description is still technically correct. I have to apologize for saying she was a sexual slut, but I think you could still rightfully call her a slut based on her own slovenly and lax statements.
Dan Aykroyd made a pretty good living calling Jane Curtin an “ignorant slut”. My goodness, we used to greet each other in the hallways at school saying, “Jane, you ignorant slut!” We thought it was funny. I didn’t hear about any advertisers being threatened if they didn’t pull away from Saturday Night Live. So the hipsters were using the word in the 1970s, and it was cool, but now it’s bad? Sorry, there’s that old double standard again.