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Flukes Testimony
Law Students for Reprodutive Justice ^ | March 2012 | Sandra Fluke

Posted on 03/04/2012 1:54:02 PM PST by Netizen

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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

She requires us to pay for her RECREATIONAL SEXUAL EXPLOITS. Did the Jesuits at Georgetown vet her in an interview?
I wonder what the admissions process is like at Georgetown Law. Did they even interview her? What are her grades? What was her LSAT score? Was she an affirmative action admisssion?


81 posted on 03/04/2012 5:05:07 PM PST by Texas Songwriter (Ia)
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To: DrewsMum

Georgetown has a health insurance mandate (see link 24)

You can either go on theirs - if not you must waive it officially or they will charge you for it - or buy your own or use parents plan (as long it is to the standards that Georgetown sets forth).

Their insurance isn’t cheap - $157/month - you can get cheaper on the open market in DC.

Fluke is being pissy about Georgetown - well, they don’t “make” you buy their insurance but they do “make” you buy health insurance to their premium levels.

It’s like Mini-ObamaCare -lol

If some of her twit 30 yr old friends can’t figure out that if they need BCP’s for a condition or sex(who cares - whatever) that they can opt out of the Georgetown plan and get their own....these twits make women look like weak-in-the-knees idiots - apparently they can’t figure out how to take care of themselves...what do they need - flashcards?

(I had University health coverage in college - early 80’s - I don’t remember if it was mandatory but I know I was on it - I think I had a check up once in those 4 years)


82 posted on 03/04/2012 5:13:42 PM PST by libertarian27 (Check my profile page for the FReeper Online Cookbook 2011)
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To: black_diamond

I think not.

a video made after she was denied the opportunity to testify,

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/sandra-fluke-a-fake-victim-of-georgetowns-policy-on-contraceptives/

Meet Sandra Fluke: The woman you didn’t hear at Congress’ contraceptives hearing

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/meet-sandra-fluke-the-woman-you-didnt-hear-at-congress-contraceptives-hearing/2012/02/16/gIQAJh57HR_blog.html


83 posted on 03/04/2012 5:15:37 PM PST by Netizen (Path to citizenship = Scamnesty. If you give it away, more will come. Who's pilfering your wallet?)
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To: DrewsMum
A certain behavior is expected by the student body. Do private universities not hold similar standards?

A very few might, but some Catholic universities don't. Some even have coed dorms, which facilitates the 'hook-up' culture. When our daughter was looking for a Catholic college, she eliminated all of the ones with coed housing, choosing, instead, Ave Maria Univ. in FL.

84 posted on 03/04/2012 5:16:08 PM PST by SuziQ
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To: Netizen
Please take the time to read the testimony.

My poor 99%er, not Georgetown lawyer brain has no cells to spare for her B.S.

The fact that Rush has brought any attention to her at all is even worse than his appalling apology for telling the truth about this chutzpah slut!

85 posted on 03/04/2012 5:34:01 PM PST by Theophilus (Not merely prolife, but prolific)
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To: Texas Songwriter

You said it, that is the key word: “Recreational”. I mean what’s next, paying the beer tab for the frat parties? If it was some girl who said she needed $3000 bucks to pay for beer and Rush called her a drunk would THAT be inappropriate? Hell no. The left is scamming once again, playing on peoples emotions. Rush should have NEVER apologized by on the same coin he should have never given them ammunition because we will never hear the end of this. They will exploit this to no end to influence the stupid.

About your other questions: From what I’ve read, this woman isn’t even a student although I can find no confirmation of this. What is confirmed is she is NOT 23 but 30 years old and graduated in 2003 with a BS in sex studies.

Wait till Thursday when Ann Coulter puts out her column. I absolutely gaurantee you 1000% Ann will rip this woman 3 new a-holes, expose her for what she really is.


86 posted on 03/04/2012 5:47:08 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (How ironic that Ann Coulter should write a book called Treason.)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas; sickoflibs
was this the testimony that was the basis for rushs remarks ???

admittedly i dont bother much with watching/reading the events in realtime, as i have you guys for the cliif note/dummies version...but if this is it, rush screwed the pooch, and missed a golden opportunity to shine the light back onto planned parenthood, which most ALL wimmin know of, and can use to get FReebies...

this was/is a goldmine of rebuttable stuff, and skank that this commie activist is, she didnt speak of her own activities...

87 posted on 03/04/2012 5:49:35 PM PST by Gilbo_3 (Gov is not reason; not eloquent; its force.Like fire,a dangerous servant & master. George Washington)
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To: lacrew

The dean of Georgetown had a perfect opportunity to defend the school and the church and wimped out. He defended her right to politicize the issue as a women’s rights matter instead.
My alma mater, a Jesuit University, has become a bastion of liberalism. I don’t support it anymore and will no encourage my grandchildren to attend.


88 posted on 03/04/2012 6:35:08 PM PST by Dapper 26
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
She is a barbaric grifter which represents the institutionalization of the grifter. Congress is a cesspool of grifters. Vice is lifted up, but the truth and virtue is denegrated. Truth is the victim, and in its place will be darkness and deceit. It will be the legacy of our age to be passed on to the next generation. Truth is scourged today, and will be sacrificed to our posterity for euphemism and deception. How can a nation stand when truth is codified by lawmakers as the enemy of warranted knowledge. Warranted true belief takes on no meaning if truth is sacrificed. Every man will be his own reference to declare his view. Another man once said, "Professing themselves to wise, they became fools, vain in their own conceit, having a form of godliness, but denying its source. Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped the creature more than the Creator. For this cause God gave them up to vile affections, for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature. And even as they did not retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind to do those things which are not convenient."

This overt example is out there for all to see. She is either a loose woman or runs will that type of crowd. Verbally declaring her societal classification may aggrivate some, but it is nevertheless accurate. So, our leadership, even the President of the United States cast his lot with this type of behavior as a pretext to drive the wedge between women and conservatism. Obama is shameless and purile in his declarations. This woman has willfully submitted herself to the congressional left and the president to be used and whored out to coarsen an already crass and rapidly degenerating society. The light is flickering and the wind is picking up. How will the light seek the darkness if light is extinguished. God have mercy on this country...to have been given so much, and it count it so little.

89 posted on 03/04/2012 6:48:18 PM PST by Texas Songwriter (Ia)
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To: Gilbo_3; Netizen
rush screwed the pooch

Yes. Big-time. Fluke never mentioned her own sex life. Never said she was on contraceptives or that she had ever taken contraceptives.

Fluke gave the stories of six other specific women.

Then Rush said that Fluke - Fluke - was a slut and a prostitute. Rush said that Fluke said she was getting so much sex she couldn't pay for it. Rush questioned how proud Fluke's parents were about all of her recreational sex.

All of that sex that Fluke never mentioned a single time.

Rush counted the number of condoms that Fluke needed for the amount she said she spent on contraception . . . but Fluke said how much one woman (not Fluke) who was taking birth control pills for a medical condition paid for them.

So . . . while conservatives had the high moral ground on the issue of Obamacare forcing religious healthcare plans to provide care than ran against religious principles (like contraception), we lost it because of Rush. He had to apologize. People on FR are calling Fluke a slut, saying she's round-heeled.

Rush could have attacked all of the BS in Fluke's testimony. Instead, he apologized and whenever the issue of Obamacare and contraception comes up, what will be remembered is Limbaugh erroneously calling Sandra Fluke a slut and then apologizing. Not that Georgetown shouldn't have to pay for contraceptives against Roman Catholic religious principles.

You said 'Rush screwed the pooch." Yep.

90 posted on 03/04/2012 6:52:15 PM PST by Scoutmaster (You knew the job was dangerous when you took it)
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To: Scoutmaster

Dittos


91 posted on 03/04/2012 7:33:23 PM PST by libertarian27 (Check my profile page for the FReeper Online Cookbook 2011)
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To: Gilbo_3; ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
RE :”this was/is a goldmine of rebuttable stuff, and skank that this commie activist is, she didnt speak of her own activities...

I can see the problem with where Rush went politically ,
Republican are having a hell of a time getting traction on the theme that this is about Religious freedom. Dems claim it is about women's health, which in many cases birth control pills are.
But also in today's modern culture of “My sexual activity is my business, but my health care bills are your responsibility”, women's ability to have sex without pregnancy is equated to their health. And Rush goes out and attacks her jokingly on an assumed sexual activity of hers, wrt to free birth control pills.

In this insane world homosexuals have the right to sexual freedom, but we are responsible for the bills.

BTW Don't smoke because that's a public health issue if you do,

92 posted on 03/04/2012 8:33:19 PM PST by sickoflibs (You MUST support the lesser of two RINOs or we all die!)
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To: Gilbo_3; ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Making this debate part of sex-birth also brings up the practical issue, if women use birth control when they don’t want to have babies then there are less abortions and less welfare(and less child support orders). That is probably the reason why a debate on BC mandates cant be won. It cant be won on a cost argument.


93 posted on 03/04/2012 8:39:09 PM PST by sickoflibs (You MUST support the lesser of two RINOs or we all die!)
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To: Netizen
1. Georgetown University requires students to be covered by health insurance. This is typical of most universities today. The move to mandate health insurance coverage at universities came about after repeated cases of meningococcal meningitis spread through universities.

2. Georgetown only requires students to buy their insurance if they have not obtained insurance elsewhere. Insurance elsewhere is available elsewhere for a similar price as Georgetown's but at that price covers only generic drugs fully (brand name drugs are subject to deductibles and copays).

TO SUGGEST OR INFER THE ONLY SOURCE OF HEALTH INSURANCE IS GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY IS A CANARD.

3. If this debate is about contraception, the method of contraception is not relevant. Since the method of contraception is relevant, this is not a debate about contraception, but instead is a debate about something else.

THE CONTRACEPTION ARGUMENT IS A CANARD.

4. The positive benefits of hormonal birth control have not been validated to the point the pills can be prescribed for that benefit. That said, the positive benefits of combined oral contraceptives are well documented due to the 50 year history of combined oral contraceptives, and are a benefit of generic versions of combined oral contraceptives. Most drugs released since 1990 have expired patents and therefore are available in generic form.

THE NON-CONTRACEPTIVE BENEFITS ARGUMENT IS A CANARD.

5. While I do not have the details of the Georgetown student health insurance benefits, it is a reasonable guess to say regular doctor visits and annual physicals are covered (perhaps partially covered requiring a copay and deductible), to include gender specific medical treatment (i.e., PAP smears, pelvic exams, etc. for women). It is also likely there is nothing preventing a physician from prescribing birth control at the request of the insured. What is likely is the primary coverage portion of the Georgetown student insurance policy does not cover birth control medical devices (i.e., IUD, ring, etc.), and the prescription drug coverage portion specifically does not cover prescription birth control drugs. That said, anyone can take a doctors prescription and pay for the drug themselves. They can also notify the doctor their insurance does not cover the cost of certain drugs and request the doctor only prescribe the low cost alternative (i.e., alternative drugs available in generic form). This happens today with people who have high-deductible insurance with health savings accounts (HSAs), and who pay for their prescription drugs out of their HSA. It also works this way for anyone purchasing medical marijuana.

THE "ACCESS" ARGUMENT IS A CANARD.

People in California have access to medical marijuana with a prescription. No insurance's prescription drug benefit pays for medical marijuana. Q.E.D.

What is Fluke's argument about? Cost? Debunked. Women's health? Debunked. "Access". Debunked.

Fluke is part of a vast left wing conspiracy to conflate others paying for something as equal to liberty--i.e., mandating someone else (government or private industry) pay for something (in this case, optional medical treatment), is equal to protecting personal freedom ("access"). Where do we go from here? Logically, if self expression is a protected liberty, and for a transgendered person to fully realize their self-expression they must have gender reassignment surgery paid for by insurance.

That is the slippery slope, but what is this about? Fluke is not a useless idiot, she is a willing player in this drama. When you see Fluke as just another in a line of left wing feminist activists determined to crush religious organizations in the name of women's heath, then it makes sense. It is not about access, it is not about affordability, it is not about health. It is about secularizing the remaining (small "o") orthodox religious institutions BY FORCE. As people fled mainline protestant denominations for Catholic church and evangelical Protestant churches, the progressives started to lose control of religion. The bishops and leaders of the mainline Protestant churches have no political clout any more, but the Catholic bishops and the leaders of evangelical Protestant churches do. And they are a threat to progressives, so they must be crushed.

That is what this is all about. And Fluke is not some draftee dragged into the progressive army unwillingly, but she is a long serving captain in that army.

94 posted on 03/05/2012 7:11:25 AM PST by magellan
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To: DrewsMum
Pardon me for maybe asking a stupid question or one that has been answered. Does Georgetown u provide insurance to their students? Is this common in universities today? It wasn’t in any of the 3 colleges I attended. I may be out of the loop, but is this a new thing?

When I was in college, the university offered very affordable insurance for those who were not on their parents' insurance, but it was not mandated.

I don't know about Georgetown, but about 10 years ago this was a big issue when a meningococcal meningitis infection spread between universities during spring break. Later, as a result of the anti-vaxer generation of parents, there were mumps outbreaks in several universities.

Basically, the university infirmaries were overrun during various outbreaks, and wanted to move treatment to the local medical facilities.

This prompted universities to require students have health insurance.

But we have gone from treatment meningococcal meningitis outbreaks, mumps outbreaks, and other life-threatening diseases to optional prescription drugs.

95 posted on 03/05/2012 7:19:17 AM PST by magellan
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To: Netizen
No one will listen now. I;m going to try to remember to listen to Rush. What time does he come on?

Every one is going to be listening to Rush to see how this plays out.

And yet.... by your own words, even you don't see how WELL it worked.

Read them again.

No one will listen now. I;m going to try to remember to listen to Rush. What time does he come on?

96 posted on 03/05/2012 8:06:07 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: Netizen
He apologized because he called HER a slut when she wasn’t talking about herself.

You are correct. What she was talking about was how all the other women she knows that are students at Georgetown are such sluts.

97 posted on 03/05/2012 8:08:42 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: Netizen
The bc pill first, then how long til abortion follows?

If you are on government supplied(taxpayer paid for) bc, and you get pregnant, it is the government's legal responsibility(in the leftest view) to pay for that abortion. And it will not be an optional thing.

Later will come mandatory abortion for 'non-perfect' children, and the Chinese version of 'sexual selection'.

98 posted on 03/05/2012 8:15:51 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: petitfour; SuziQ
A doctor’s word is backed up with evidence. Where is the lawsuit?

Maybe Ms. Fluke's 'word' is not backed up by evidence.

99 posted on 03/05/2012 8:19:34 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: Netizen; black_diamond

So.... what you are saying is that she was denied a testimony in front of Congress, because Issa knew she was just a political whore, and she had no real evidence, just stories she made up about her slutty Georgetown schoolmates . So they held a ‘fake’ hearing presentation (making her a media whore) and that is what Rush was commenting on?


100 posted on 03/05/2012 8:27:11 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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