Contraception Controversy Continues: Meet Witness Sandra Fluke

“Democrats and women’s groups protested when Issa, saying the topic of the hearing was religious freedom, not access to birth control or women’s rights”

This just another example of Issa’s ignorance. Just like Solyndra, he always wants a stacked deck. The way to make Issa lay low is to utter the name “Halliburton”

argument is over and no one is listening.perhaps we should dispense birth control pills to mexico…..that would be a better use of our money.

Maybe we shouldn’t give fed money to institutions that want their religious freedom?

You people are all a bunch of morons. Free contraceptives for everyone!! Yahoo! I cannot believe that after only 236 short years of democracy THIS is what people are demanding. Our founders are rolling over in their graves right now. REALLY? REALLY? Unbelievable what a bunch of idiots live in this country. When are you all going to be responsible for yourselves? Grow up, wipe your nose, take off your diapers and take care of your own problems!

No Ms. Fluke no one owes you health insurance with BCP coverage. You, Ms. Fluke need to stop flukeing and pay for the pills. At what point is this insanity going to stop? People and their entitlement mentality are out of control.

So this poor woman, is emotionally suffering for lack of sex while in college as a law student, and wants tax payers to pay her expenses for having sex? Is this a joke?
I think most women would rather have some sense of self respect rather than whine about not being able to afford to have sex.
Only in liberal America!

anyone who denies this is either a women’s health issue OR a 1st amendment issue is full of it. it’s about both of them. constitutional rights issues often revolve around one person’s right to do something as opposed to another’s. it’s not always about the government just doing something to somebody. i’ve read that something like 96% of catholics supposedly ignore the church’s ban on contraception, so from that standpoint, the church is swimming against a tsunami tide. on the other hand, i find ms. flukes primary example of the girl with the cyst was so over the top that as to make it not compelling . the same thing happened to my wife (while she was taking birth control i might add) and it didn’t stop us from having 2 kids on purpose and 1 by accident. and i can only sympathize so much with people complaining about paying $100 a month for the pill or condoms or whatever, when they’re paying $50,000.00 a year for school and living in one of the most expensive places in the country. to be sure, many if not most are on financial aid, but the reality is that adding and extra $3000.00 to $200,000.00 worth of dead is virtually negligible. all this being said, the entire matter raises interesting and ultimately fundamental questions regarding the breadth of church-state separation, the coercive powers of government, the extent to which and individual’s rights to health care, and how all three bear upon one another. interesting indeed.

Sex is done primarily for RECREATION or PROCREATION, where does it state that the gov’t now has to pay for recreation? Does this mean I can take my kids to disneyland on the fed’s dime? NICE!!!!!

Another example of the two kinds of Democrats: 1) the liars, and 2) the stupid.

The liars try to mask their assault on the First Amendment (yes, religious liberty is in the first Amendment BEFORE freedom of Speech or the Press) by claiming this is about “Women’s health” and the stupid are just that, stupid enough to believe the liars.

And, this is so ph*cking gutless…why won’t the left just be honest that they want to take down religious institutions? Yes, it might make it harder to force their worldview on the rest of us, but at least they could look in the mirror without seeing a gutless coward.

i praise you, miss fluke, and you should take rush Limbough to court for what ever you can get for his defemation of your character and he should be ban from the airwaves for life.

@Emily, It is prostitutes who demand to be paid for having sex. Nobody here is criticizing women for using bc, or trying to restrict them from using it.

Emily: the $ 3000 amount used was an estimate of bc expenses “during a student’s law school career”, presumably 4 years. Still, its a gross exageration IMO. A 3 condoms package cost $4.50 in any 7/11 and should be enough for a week unless she’s a nymphomaniac. That $18 a month, $ 216 a year and $ 864 in 4 years. The issue, however, is why does the employer have to pay for that?

Taxpayers will not & do not pay for BC. Health insurers would, and most already do, tho most have co-pays on the prescriptions. The whole idea of health insurance is to collect lots of money from lots of people that will cover the few each year who need it. Healthy people who may go to the doctor only once a year pay thousands of annual premiums that will cover smokers who develop respiratory conditions, overweight people who develop type 2 diabetes, people with heart conditions who need medicine to lower their clorestoral that won’t change their eating habits or have strokes, etc. Should we stopped covering people who choose to live unhealthy lives??? Covereing BC is cheaper than covering pre-natal care, the cost of a baby’s delivery and the health care for that child thereafter.