Here's the beginning of Fluke's testimony:
Leader Pelosi, Members of Congress, good morning, and thank you for calling this hearing on women’s health and allowing me to testify on behalf of the women who will benefit from the Affordable Care Act contraceptive coverage regulation. Myname is Sandra Fluke, and I’m a third year student at Georgetown Law, a Jesuit school. I’m also a past president of Georgetown Law Students for Reproductive Justice or LSRJ. I’d like to acknowledge my fellow LSRJ members and allies and all of the student activists with us and thank them for being here today.
Who is the "Law Students for Reproductive Justice"?
WHO FUNDS THEM?
Georgetown LSRJ is here today because we’re so grateful that this regulation implements the nonpartisan, medical advice of the Institute of Medicine. I attend a Jesuit law school that does not provide contraception coverage in its student health plan. Just as we students have faced financial, emotional, and medical burdens as a result, employees at religiously affiliated hospitals and universities across the country have suffered similar burdens. We are all grateful for the new regulation that will meet the critical health care needs of so many women. Simultaneously, the recently announced adjustment addresses any potential conflict with the religious identity of Catholic and Jesuit institutions.
Bullshit. Georgetown already allows students to use OTHER insurance plans than Georgetown's own.
And contraception is NOT a critical health care need: either your boyfriend needs to stop being so cheap and buy his own damn condoms, or you need to learn to swallow.
When I look around my campus, I see the faces of the women affected, and I have heard more and more of their stories. . On a daily basis, I hear from yet another woman from Georgetown or other schools or who works for a religiously affiliated employer who has suffered financial, emotional, and medical burdens because of this lack of contraceptive coverage. And so, I am here to share their voices and I thank you for allowing them to be heard.
"Financial, emotional, and medical" -- classic propaganda technique of bundling similar things to inflate the numbers. Kind of like "those who walk or bike to work" to argue for bike paths.
Without insurance coverage, contraception can cost a woman over $3,000 during law school. For a lot of students who, like me, are on public interest scholarships, that’s practically an entire summer’s salary. Forty percent of female students at Georgetown Law report struggling financially as a result of this policy. One told us of how embarrassed and powerless she felt when she was standing at the pharmacy counter, learning for the first time that contraception wasn’t covered, and had to walk away because she couldn’t afford it. Women like her have no choice but to go without contraception. Just last week, a married female student told me she had to stop using contraception because she couldn’t afford it any longer. Women employed in low wage jobs without contraceptive coverage face the same choice.
FORTY percent because of THIS policy? Where's the survey; and if you're going to a $40k law school, condoms or the pill aren't breaking the budget.
The married student can go to a womyn's clinic and get free contraception: this is DC. And what's her husband do? If you can't even afford contraception, you won't be able to afford an abortion OR a child should it fail. It is not my responsibility to indemnify you against the consequences of YOUR poor life choices.
(And do we have to guarantee $75,000/year jobs for life for these womyn after they get out of Georgetown Law with a specialization in Butch Studies and can't get a REAL job?)
And a womyn in a low wage job "without contraception coverage" ? Refrain from sex: it's not MY job to pay for your boyfriend's thrills.
Cheers!
One article said there were all these accusations made and not one article of proof requested. No names etc. Pelosi sat there like the cat who ate the canary. Gleaming she had pulled one over republicans. I hope the church loves this evil woman.
This is not about contraception. It is about getting the heat off Obama in a week where Breitbart said he will release videos,Arpaio released BC investigation and now VOLT is having problems.
Law Students for Reproductive Justice is about abortion and anything else to stop the birth of babies.
Did I not say this will open up a can of worms? On Fox this morning.
Laura Ingraham said Sandra Flukes thesis was on employers paying for transgender surgery or that could be discrimination.