Georgetown co-ed: Please pay for us to have sex … We’re going broke buying birth control

[gilliam]

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, the case of contraception, women can make lifestyle choices that render it unnecessary.

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[stinkcat_14]

And when there done with that can someone please pay my cable bill for me, I am going broke here.

[CatholicBoy1957]

At least they're willing to use some sort of birth control. I know of a local attorney who represents welfare cases, and he has a client, on welfare, that has 25 children, from several woman, and the client is on Viagra.

[scipio337]

$1,000/year won't cover parking at Georgetown.


Perhaps the $23k a semester tuition is the source of the financial hardship, and not the money spent on birth control?

[SamH]

Abstinence is free and much more healthy - both physically and mentally.

[raaucoin]

and can some one pay my blood pressure and cholesterol meds. Pretty soon I'm gonna have to diet and exercise instead.

[Armyvet007]

I struggle financially to pay for smokes. The government should be paying for my smokes since I can't afford to. /sarcasm

[Carina20]

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.

Three times every day? When do they have time to, you know, study? I would imagine law school would be so taxing and draining one wouldn't have the time or energy to think about sex let alone have it every day, several times a day.

[wondrousgnat]

Originally Posted by raaucoin

and can some one pay my blood pressure and cholesterol meds. Pretty soon I'm gonna have to diet and exercise instead.

I take those meds too. Why don't the taxpayers pay for ours? We need them to survive. Does she? (Maybe she does.)


For her to go out in public on national television to make those statements is somewhat weird. Is she saying to the world "I am a slut?" Her parents must be very proud.

[seekerz]

Good article. Consequence-free sex is not an inalienable right.

My only reservation is that the author seems to minimize the medical use of the pill by saying that it is not the only treatment for PCOS. Even a doctor has no basis on which to critique the treatment of patients without all of a person's details. If people have a medical need they should get BC coverage.

[seekerz]

Originally Posted by wondrousgnat

I take those meds too. Why don't the taxpayers pay for ours? We need them to survive. Does she? (Maybe she does.)


For her to go out in public on national television to make those statements is somewhat weird. Is she saying to the world "I am a slut?" Her parents must be very proud.

Uncalled for - really.

[SamH]

Originally Posted by Armyvet007

I struggle financially to pay for smokes. The government should be paying for my smokes since I can't afford to. /sarcasm

Don't laugh. People who smoke generally cost the government less overall. When they get sick they tend stay sick then die. They don't linger around and collect Social Security for decades while running up medical bills with treatable diseases.

I would expect the government to continue their subsidy of the tobacco industry for decades to come.

[seekerz]

Originally Posted by SamH

Don't laugh. People who smoke generally cost the government less overall. When they get sick they tend stay sick then die. They don't linger around and collect Social Security for decades while running up medical bills with treatable diseases.

I would expect the government to continue their subsidy of the tobacco industry for decades to come.

Source?

[MissGranger]

Originally Posted by raaucoin

and can some one pay my blood pressure and cholesterol meds. Pretty soon I'm gonna have to diet and exercise instead.

[JimR-OCDS]

Originally Posted by SamH

Don't laugh. People who smoke generally cost the government less overall. When they get sick they tend stay sick then die. They don't linger around and collect Social Security for decades while running up medical bills with treatable diseases.

I would expect the government to continue their subsidy of the tobacco industry for decades to come.

THis is actually true and the study that had confirmed it, but was never published was done by a major US tobacco company.

The study was done in Holland with the attempt to show that smoking wasn't as bad for our health as thought. However, the study showed it was bad, but the bright side, smokers cost the government less in health related cost because they died earlier.


Jim