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.
Wow. So it costs $3,000 over three years to get enough stuff to prevent pregnancy. I was not aware that hand lotion cost that much.
Lawyers shouldn’t reproduce.
First of all, that girl is UGLY.
birth control? YOu can’t afford birth control?? Lying bitch. In this day and age a gallon of gas costs near 4 bucks and a beer in a bar costs more than that. YET YOU BITCH ABOUT BIRTH CONTROL??
You are a lying c***, and probably a lesbian anyway!
The best birth control is an apple. It’s not eaten before, it’s not eaten afterward, it’s eaten instead of.
But if you ever turned on some of those judge/court TV shows you know that we will pay lots more for her sex if she has kids instead of using BC.
But again, I don't think we should be forced to pay for either.
Perhaps part of her cost of sex is paying guys to sleep with her. No normal person would do it for free.
trojans are 2.00
if she spent 3000 dlollars in 3 years she could have had sex 1.3 times a day every day for 3 years
trojans are 2.00
if she spent 3000 dlollars in 3 years she could have had sex 1.3 times a day every day for 3 years
I agree. Why are so many medications prescription?
This really isn’t satire?
The class of 65 was the first year that Georgetown admitted women. Then they had to be signed into the dorm on weekends by midnight..not sleepovers with boyfriend. If they went back to those rules the girls wouldn’t need birth control. Oh for the good old days.
I dated one of the girls in the first class of women at Georgetown.
These Marxists and their manipulation of language so they can control the ideas.
All brainwashed idiots-—to think they have a right to make us pay for their immoral behavior.....ah, yes-—Marxists want to encourage the destruction of the culture—destroy all relationships—make sex meaningless-—just a recreation activity devoid of life. Do it in the road. Sick, subhumans.
This is what has happened to our country. What ever happened to waiting until you get married to have sex. Oh i’m sorry we have no morals anymore. if that was my daughter testifying I would have disowned her. SHAME SHAME SHAME and what gives these people the right to think we should pay for them to be sluts.
First on the Makeup itself and then on the Contraceptives, since she won't need any because of what she will look like without Makeup.
It's a win-win situation. She can use the money she saves to fund her Education and have some leftover to donate to the DNC.
I guess the same could be said for the money she would save on a Razor, Shave Cream and Waxing.
This is what has happened to our country. What ever happened to waiting until you get married to have sex. Oh i’m sorry we have no morals anymore. if that was my daughter testifying I would have disowned her. SHAME SHAME SHAME and what gives these people the right to think we should pay for them to be sluts.
Is that a ring in her lower lip or a cold sore?
Taxpayers shouldn’t have to pay for recreational sex. I can’t even afford satellite!
Wanna play Hockey? Keep the puck out of the net on your own dime or don’t play.
If she’s getting it three times a day she’s *already* giving it away.
She can always insist that her gentleman callers buy and bring the condoms. Why should the taxpayers subsidize it?
On another point, isn’t being paid to have sex known as prostitiution?
“Let’s see. She wants to give it away and have taxpayers fund her birth control.”
Certainly mom, dad and Georgetown are all proud of their little darling.
The brilliance of her thinking, her message, her plea — is she not the epitome of virtue and self-governance in modernity?
A role model for the ages.
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