This woman was brought before Congress to provide "testimony" in support of Obamacare. I'm pretty sure that they don't just pull everyday schmucks off the street to do this, especially when they want a certain kind of statement.
No she was not!!! Darrell Issa's committee was looking into the question: Does the president have the constitutional authority to demand and mandate that Catholic universities (or churches or schools) provide not just contraception, but other medication that facilitates abortions taking place or that causes them to happen? Does he have the right to mandate that?
The democrats had a witness lined up for this hearing: Barry Lynn. And at 4:30 in the afternoon, they canceled. The Democrats pulled Barry Lynn out and said that they wanted Sandra Fluke to show up instead. And Issa said, "Who's this? We don't know who she is? She doesn't have any expertise." There's a 72-hour vet rule. They have 72 hours to figure out who the witnesses are, to see if they're qualified. Democrats didn't want that to happen.
Issa stood firm and said, "Sorry." So the Democrats staged a press conference made to look like a congressional hearing. And the whole purpose was to change the subject from Obama's mandating (anti-constitutionally) that insurance companies or churches provide, free of charge, contraception and abortifacients. They had to desperately change the subject. They changed the subject to contraception and how supposedly the Republicans were opposed to it, and thus the war on women.
She was brought in to testify before Congress, but the Republican committee chair refused to allow her to speak, because he saw it for what it was, a publicity stunt.
Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats staged a phony committee meeting, and the media filmed it as they would have a regular meeting. Most folks don't realize that.