Nancy Pelosi and the Dems called a hearing to hear from a law student who is going to Georgetown Law School who said that her wish to have contraceptive coverage in her student health plan should be honored. She said she should not have to choose between a quality education and contraception coverage and not to have this coverage causes her "financial, emotional and medical burdens." Georgetown is a Jesuit college.
She also argued that contraception might be for fighting a disease and not just preventing pregnancy.
At Thursday’s staged hearing, Fluke said she chose to go to law school at Georgetown because it offers a quality education, but she also expected the school to accommodate students who do not share the Catholic belief that contraceptives, abortifacients, and sterilization are immoral.
"A friend of mine, for example, has polycystic ovarian syndrome, and she has to take prescription birth control to stop cysts from growing on her ovaries. Her prescription is technically covered by Georgetown’s insurance because it’s not intended to prevent pregnancy."
But Fluke noted that her friend "never got the insurance company to cover her prescription. Despite verifications of her illness from her doctor, her claim was denied repeatedly on the assumption that she really wanted birth control to prevent pregnancy. She’s gay."
The friend, unable to afford the out-of-pocket costs of her mediation, finally stopped taking it, and ended up having her ovary removed because of a cyst. Now the gay woman wonders if she'll be able to give her mother "desperately desired grandbabies."
Huh???? Well while I was letting that statement settle in I looked up the fees for Law School at Georgetown ....ready for this???? $46,865.00/yr!!!! Think she can buy her own contraceptives?????
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2 comments:
On a local radio show this morning, someone suggested that the girls leave a tip cup next to the bed to help pay for contraceptives. Also, women are able to go the women's health clinics where contraceptives are very inexpensive. I believe that contraceptives should be available -- just not free.
Oh PAHleez! I have PCOS (Polycystic ovarian syndrome) and I can tell you that birth control is NOT standard of care! If that grandbaby argument was to imply she can't get pregnant now because she went off birth control, then how the heck did this girl expect to get pregnant while on birth control anyways?? Back to the obnoxious incessant argument that BC should be provided to women with PCOS: BC only masks the symptoms, it does not fix the problem. TRUE standard of care for PCOS would be metformin, which is available for cheap even without insurance, though the insurance would have no moral issue with providing metformin. The only reason most doctors prescribe BC instead of metformin to college students is because the latter actually INCREASES the patient's fertility. So if she really wanted to provide her mother with grandbabies, she would have taken metformin, not BC. Financial matters or not, the whole "people with PCOS require BC" argument holds no water!
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