Posted on 03/23/2012 5:28:37 AM PDT by IbJensen
CNSNews.com) – Thirty-year-old Georgetown Law student Sandra Fluke, who told a House Steering and Policy Committee hearing convened by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi last month that contraception can cost a student $3,000 during law school, told CNSNews.com on Tuesday that she did not know that the Target store 3 miles from the Georgetown Law campus sells a month's supply of birth control pills for just $9.
Target advertises the $9-per-month birth control pills on its website, and CNSNews.com confirmed and reconfirmed that the $9 pills were in fact available at the Target near Georgetown Law.
“Without insurance coverage, contraception can cost a woman over $3,000 during law school," Fluke testified before Pelosi's panel.
"For a lot of students who, like me, are on public interest scholarships, that’s practically an entire summer’s salary," Fluke testified. "Forty percent of female students at Georgetown Law report struggling financially as a result of this policy.”
“Just last week, a married female student told me she had to stop using contraception because she couldn’t afford it any longer,” Fluke testified. “Women employed in low-wage jobs without contraceptive coverage face the same choice. You might respond that contraception is accessible in lots of other ways. Unfortunately, that's not true.”
On Tuesday, Fluke spoke at an event at the U.S. Capitol in celebration of women’s history month. After the event, CNSNews.com asked Fluke: “Were you aware of the Target store that’s 3 miles from Georgetown Law that sells a month’s supply of birth control pills for $9 a month without insurance coverage? Were you aware of that?”
Fluke said: “So, I’m not familiar with specific department store policies. I know that some generic forms of contraception are less expensive than others and that that has been widely reported. But what has not been widely reported is that many women cannot use those forms of contraception.”
“Women have different types of medical needs that require much more expensive forms,” she said. “One woman contacted me. She was very, very upset that that quote was being emphasized because she has a genetic condition that requires her to use contraception that costs $1,500.”
“So, this is medicine,” said Fluke. “It’s not one-size-fits-all, and while it’s great that some women can access more affordable contraception, contraception needs to be accessible and affordable for all of the women who need all of the different kinds.”
Birth control pills. (AP Photo)
CNSNews.com had initially reported on Mar. 5 that the pharmacy at the Target 3 miles from the Georgetown Law campus offers a month's supply of Tri-Sprintec, the generic form of the birth-control pill Ortho Tri-Cyclen, for $9 for people without health insurance coverage for the pills.
In addition, CNSNews.com confirmed that a CVS pharmacy only two blocks from the Georgetown Law campus sells a month’s supply of the same generic birth control pills for $33.
Tri-Sprintec is an FDA-approved prescription drug. The Physician’s Desk Reference (PDR) says it is for "prevention of pregnancy" and “treatment of moderate acne” in women 15 and older.
The index of what this woman doesn’t know would fill volumes.
Don’t most people go to jail for lying before congress?
A girl that dumb has got to be easy.
She did not “testify” before congress. It was a press conference, photo op dressed up like a committee hearing.
So this sl...er... young woman is either a liar or a dope. Neverthless, the left will use her like they use every idiot.
Target? You can’t be serious. You don’t really expect her to go into a Target, do you? Around “those people”? What’s next? Wal-Mart? Monster truck rallies? Country music?
She deserves better, don’t you think?
You hit the nail squarely on the head...Sandra Fluke was quite willing to be a useful idiot for Congressional Democrats because of her own, potential payoff.
Consider this: Ms. Fluke is graduating from law school at Georgetown this spring, a time when roughly 50% of new grads can’t find work as attorneys. With her “testimony” (and resulting controversy), she just became the best-know, “pending” law school grad in America.
Just think about the doors that will open with liberal firms, and the types of “reproductive rights organizations” that she champions. Despite her obvious intellectual deficiencies, it’s a virutal guarantee that Sandra Fluke will have a job as she prepares for the bar exam, unlike so many of her classmates.
And those expensive student loans will soon be a thing of the past, too. There is almost certainly a book and movie deal in the works, with a six-figure payday for Ms. Fluke. And she’ll have a profitable sideline as a speaker and pundit as well.
Not too shabby for someone who doesn’t know women can buy birth control for $9 a month at Target. Of course, Ms. Fluke had no interest in that bit of knowledge; she had bigger fish to fry, namely her own career.
Yes, if you want the “have your period ever leap year” pill—yeah, those are expensive.
But people on welfare don’t get to drive Ecalades.
To paraphrase an old beer commercial:
"Moral!"
"Mental!"
"Moral!"
"Mental!"
"Moral!"
"Mental!"
Ms Fluke, to be a holder of a post-graduate degree, has flunked doing the obvious. She didn’t bother to do research into the cost of that birth control she is convinced no law student can afford. She failed to realize her statement would be so easy to ridicule.
She’s the poster child for the saying, “there’s book learning and then there’s common sense.”
How can she be studying when she’s off to Spain with rich boyfriend? I wrote to Georgetown about attending classes. Answer: each professor makes his/her own requirements for class attendance.
While we’re at it, what does that make her, sleeping with a man for a trip to Spain? Rhetorical question.
You know, I bet she and her Georgetown law students spend $9 a week or even a day at Starbuck’s for coffee. Things really need to be put in perspective.
Target does not sell DESIGNER pills. Elitist must pay more as they think cheap don't work. same/same.
It has since been pointed out to me that liberal math actually works like this:
any number + any number = answer I want it to be
any number - any number = answer I want it to be
any number * any number = answer I want it to be
any number \ any number = answer I want it to be
Once you understand, you soon realize why no number that comes out of a liberal’s mouth should ever be believed!
Oh NO! Now Fluck will demand free transportation to Target as it's unheard of that anyone would walk 6 miles to get BC.
She was lying.
Either the costs of birth control is NOT a problem for her or she doesn’t use birth control - or someone else is paying for it. Any woman who doesn’t have a clue about costs - isn’t stressed enough to volunteer to testify in court.
She’s a liberal. She’s a liar.
She’s a liberal. She’s a liar.
She was pretending to be someone who was concerned about the price of birth control. That’s a lie.
I wonder how long it’ll be until she’s here pretending to be a conservative...
She’s a liberal. She’s a liar.
Sandra F. probably has her condoms made espeially for her use. So of course she doesn’t know how much Target charges for them.
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