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.
Maybe this bimbo can give up a pack of butts per week or cut out a pack of Red Bull and buy some rubbers. Or you can always do the time tested method of pull and pray.
Sounds like this bim is well on her way to her chosen profession of street walking whore. I'm sure her parent(s) are proud.
SOURCE:
Note to Georgetown students: Target sells the pill for nine bucks a month
Birth control pills can be purchased for as low as $9 per month at a pharmacy near Georgetown’s campus. According to an employee at the pharmacy in Washington, D.C.’s Target store, the pharmacy sells birth control pills–the generic versions of Ortho Tri-Cyclen and Ortho-Cyclen–for $9 per month. “That’s the price without insurance,” the Target employee said. Nine dollars is less than the price of two beers at a Georgetown bar.
It strains credulity to believe that a single Georgetown student can’t afford $9 per month for birth control. But this is the justification the mandate’s supporters give for forcing religious institutions to purchase insurance that violates their religious and moral.
I do not have hard numbers. I think a good start would be an FOA report on the medical costs and hystorectomies rates because of HPV cancer.
I just know first hand horror stories out of Korea where some soldiers are left there to die and cannot go back home because of this quarantine, soldiers told specificaly to stay away from this soldier, as an expressed order etc. They get their mink coats from Korean “lovers” and all this “you would not seat where they just sat so much stuff there was”.
Thing of the matter in this GeorgesTown girl KarlMarx manifesto is that they want government managed prostitution.
From OccupyWallStreet, now we have OccupyCatholicHospitals movement out of GeorgesTown U... The Soddomites are surrounding Lot’s house, and Georges Stephanopoulos who might as well be Greek French professor and OBama are the writers of this manifesto, and probably not that student.
It’s all in the comformity to shame and sin tendency and tyranny. It’s like they lost the will to live but pretend they want or need to live, so as to ta ta us and torment us in some sort of parting shot of demoralization and despair.
That stuff is deep screwball... it surprizes me everytime, even when I think I am blase’ about it.
well, let’s assume the $2K student health insurance is for a year (vs.semester), and the $1K/year contraceptive figure is correct. If she has her way, the GU policy would be half for contraception, half for all other medical. OR, more realistically, the $2K/year policy jumps to (at a minimum) $3-5K/year. Do these people really think they don’t pay for it one way or another?
And the question remains, if they are paying $47K/year tuition to attend the law school, before getting into books/fees/housing/food/etc., how significant is another $1K for contraception? Miss two concerts a semester and your pills are paid for.
Just another ‘reverse parallel universe’ chapter in the age of 0bama.
It's already been pretty much established the $1k for contraception is a joke. But you're forgetting something - student loans will cover ULTRA high tuition, housing, books, but not contraceptives. :) And yes, it also covers the mandatory health insurance since it is assigned automatically through the student account. To fix this, they just need to charge condoms and pills to the student account too!
funny thing about absorbing these costs into student loans is ... they will be paying off those loans loooooooooong after they’ve lost that lovin’ feelin’
she is a very stupid college democrat. two women having physical relations do not get pregnant. she has flunked life before even starting.
perhaps she has to carry special equiptment when having sexual relations over at the mayflower hotel...
Now Obama has collage hookers asking for free contraceptives. They should ask their johns or take it out of the allowance pimps give them. Now that I think about it, I wish they were given to Obama’s mother so we wouldn’t have to deal with this problem.
http://youtu.be/8qHmXMMCrlI
All I wanted after leaving the army and starting college was a catastrophic health insurance policy. I went to go get medicare and was told, “You’re a white boy, go get a job!”
Now I get to pay for someone being a slut! We’ve come so far.....
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