Inadvertently, Sandra Fluke helped to clarify a defining issue in the 2012 presidential election. The debate didn’t begin with her or with Rush Limbaugh. It started with President Obama when he decided that the United States government should require every organization in America to offer birth control as part of their healthcare plans. Fluke changed the debate. It’s now about morals, and more precisely, it’s about whether people who want to live licentious lifestyles have the right to do so at public expense.
Fluke has become the poster child for the no morals movement. I suspect that she had no idea that she would generate such a firestorm when she let it be known that she was spending $1000 a year on contraceptives and that she couldn’t afford to pay that much. In her blog, Laura Freed points out that “Sandra must be having sex 5 times a day”:
Sandra Fluke is a law “stud”ent at Georgetown U who claims that she can’t afford birth control and feels that America owes her free birth control pills so she can have sex. She testified in front of Congress that she had to spend 3,000 dollars in 3 years in order to buy birth control and that she just can’t afford it (sob). Estimates using the price of the pill (from 5-50.00 depending on where you buy it- and if you’re REALLY broke, you can get it for free at Planned Parenthood) and condoms – shows that, by spending 1,000 a year on Birth Control, Sandra must be having sex 5 times a day (you GO girl!). Rush Limbaugh picked up on the story and said that if our Govt PAYS people to have sex, then, by all accounts, Sandra would be a prostitute, (someone paid to have sex). In an economy where gas is almost 4 bucks, almost HALF of Americans are on Food Stamps, business are shutting down left and right – the Left want you switch the focus to law students having sex and boohoo…they can’t afford birth control?? What the fuck is happening to this country???? Hello, people, I think no matter what your political beliefs, our tax $$ could be spent on people who truly deserves it…like soldiers, firemen, police, children…WAKE UP AMERICA!!! JUST SAY NO TO BIG BROTHER GOVERNMENT!!!!
Business Insider ran a story on Fluke that included a brief biographical sketch:
…Fluke as a feminist activist. According to a bio on Georgetown’s website, Fluke’s professional background is in domestic violence and human trafficking advocacy. At Georgetown law, she is the former president of Law Students for Reproductive Justice, an editor for the Journal of Gender and the Law, and vice president of the Women’s Legal Alliance. She has a bachelor’s degree in Feminist, Gender & Sexuality studies from Cornell.
Like it or not, the issue is here, and the femme fatale has defined the issue for President Obama and the Democratic Party. By taking sides with her, they have made her issue theirs, and they are vulnerable because Fluke’s views represent a radical departure from the mainstream in America.
President Obama telephoned Fluke personally to empathize with her because, as President Clinton would have said, he feels her pain. Concerning that fateful call, Fluke said,
“He was so kind,” she said in an interview. “I was just very impressed by that.”
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“When I said how important this policy was, he sort of wanted to move past that,” Fluke said. “He wanted to talk about whether or not I was OK.”
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“What has been made clear,” Fluke said, “is that women will not be silenced on this issue, and neither will the men who support them.”
Gawker ran a story that included this statement from Ms. Fluke:
“I thank the thousands of women and men, including members of Congress, Georgetown University students and faculty, and total strangers of all political stripes across the country who have offered kind words and support following recent egregious personal attacks. We are fortunate to live in a democracy where everyone is entitled to their own opinions regarding legitimate policy differences. Unfortunately, numerous commentators have gone far beyond the acceptable bounds of civil discourse. No woman deserves to be disrespected in this manner. This language is an attack on all women, and has been used throughout history to silence our voices. The millions of American women who have and will continue to speak out in support of women’s health care and access to contraception prove that we will not be silenced.”
I agree with Fluke about one thing: we still live in a country where people are free to voice their opinions. That’s what she did; that’s what Rush Limbaugh did; and that’s what I’m doing. I disagree with her assessment that “[n]o woman deserves to be disrespected in this manner.” Fluke threw the first lick when she willingly placed herself on the point for an issue that is dividing this nation, and she invited the attacks against her. I hope she learned in law school at Georgetown that she can’t start a fight and then claim innocence. Fluke is no victim. She’s a provocateur, and she deserves what she gets.
Clearly, this is a moral issue about lifestyle choices and, more importantly, who pays for those choices. Even though the president tried to sidestep the policy question in his call to Fluke, he can’t because it’s his policy. By simply making the call, Obama elevated the issue to the presidential level, and he leaned in Fluke’s direction. The president and the Democratic Party are on her side. That’s painfully obvious.
Republicans can’t afford to allow Democrats and radio talk show hosts to define this issue for them. It’s a moral question about whether Americans should be required to pay for the lascivious lifestyles of Sandra Fluke and others of her ilk who think that they have a Constitutional right to engage in sexual intercourse several times a day at public expense. Most Americans will say “no.” President Obama and Democrats in Congress have said “yes.” What will the Republican Party say?
Neil Snyder is a chaired professor emeritus at the University of Virginia. His blog, SnyderTalk.com, is posted daily.
She has a bachelor’s degree in Feminist, Gender & Sexuality studies from Cornell.
‘Nuff said.
I was listening to Mark Levine yesterday evening and a caller claiming to be a gynecologist asserted that Fluke’s testimony was less than truthful. According to him the $100/month pills can be had in generic form for $9/month. He also pointed out the glaring absurdity that a woman who loses one ovary still has another and has not lost the ability to become pregnant.
How do you spell leftist? L-I-A-R.
“She has a bachelor’s degree in Feminist, Gender & Sexuality studies from Cornell.” – I threw up in my mouth a little when I read that.
I don’t care how much sex she’s having — although if she really needs that much birth control I want to know what vitamins she’s taking — because the big point is that she is, as evidenced above, lying.
I think the big point is that her and her pals in the Democrat Party want to use government power to force me to pay for her hobby expenses at the point of a gun.
There’s a term for that: armed robbery.
And, that’s all these scumbags are, armed robbers.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government…”
IMO, we reached that point a long time ago, and we should have altered or abolished the government decades ago. The federal government doesn’t protect our rights, it steals our money and gives said money to itself and it’s friends.
And, we need to put a stop to it. And we better start doing it quick, or we’re going to end up as virtual slaves of the government, spending all our time working, so that wannabe whores, like Fluke, can have their whore expenses paid for on our dime, and so that Ms. Obambi can take several multi-million “vacations” per annum, likewise on our dime.
In just 100 years we’ve gone from being a country where government spending was less than 10% of GDP to a country where it’s now over 40% of GDP…and, it’s getting worse by the day.
We already know. They will join Democrats in criticizing Rush Limbaugh to help Democrats make him the issue. (See also Byran Preston)
The most amazing thing in this story is that a bachelor’s degree in Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies gets you into Georgetown Law.
Not really. What degrees are the easiest to get a high GPA in? If you want to get into law school, you damn sure don’t want to major in Chemical Engineering, and get a 3.3, when you can major in Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies and get a 4.0.
See the problem?
Even more so that Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies is a degree program in the first place.
Well, I suspect it helps get that fellowship in Public “Interest” Law.
(I almost typo’ed that “Pubic Interest”. Sometimes my fingers have a sense of humor much lower than my own.)
Clearly, “gender studies” are far more exciting than history!
I don’t care how much sex she has until she wants me to pay for it. Then, I get to tell her to tone it down; she who pays the piper calls the tune.
Somehow, that aspect seems to have escaped her.
Fluke (she pronounces it “flook” like “book”) seems very good at what she does, taking a inch and demanding a mile. I see her soon in Congress, or at least a 2013 Obamanation undersecretary position.
There are grains of validity in some of her arguments, and she simply stonewalls and bemoans the validity in her opponents’. It takes a certain kind to do that in the public sphere, and she is certainly one of those who can, which I suppose explains why she does.
I keep hearing claims about how much sex this twit must be having based on how much she spends on contraception. My understanding is that she claims birth-control pills cost her that much ( which is nonsense ). If she is on the pill she can have sex ten times a day or none at all. Perhaps we should leave her sexual appetite out of this discussion and focus on the real issue, which we have all correctly identified as her wish to force us to pay for her pills.
I have no problem with people buying their own contraception coverage, or paying for their own pills outright. I have no problem with people screwing themselves into exhaustion ( which I encourage if they are going to otherwise be testifying falsely to congress ). I have no problem with coverage for ‘the pill’ if it is a medical treatment, which it sometimes is.
I have a problem being forced to pay for her pills if she wants them for social reasons, and a bigger problem with people opposed to contraception by their conscience being forced to pay for it. It is simply unacceptable. I am hoping some bishops or church elders will go to jail over this. That will shine a spotlight on Obama and his ilk in a way that no one will be able to deny what they see.
I posted before proofreading. I should have said;
“I have no problem with people screwing themselves into exhaustion ( which I encourage if they are going to otherwise be screwing us to death by testifying falsely to congress ).
She’s already gotten a great start on her future Legal career: screwing everything in sight.
“I hope she learned in law school at Georgetown that she can’t start a fight and then claim innocence. Fluke is no victim. She’s a provocateur, and she deserves what she gets.” Very true!
Once again and as always, Fluke and the liberal Dem’s embarked on a trip to fantasy straw man land where thousands of women are desiring to have sex as much as possible instead of focusing on education or anything else and because their fantasies cost them so much the rest of us should pay for it whether this reality exists or not. Who are we to oppress liberal women in their sexual fantasies?
Once again the left amply demonstrates that they have never grown up past the age of puberty. They are stuck in time living in their parents spiritual basements and like spoiled little brats demand the rest of us support their delusional behavior.
When will the liberals realize the perverted free love freeloader dreams of the 60′s died on the vine and the fruit of those grapes is bitter poison?
It seems to me Obamacare is just a new arm of Planned Parenthood. They are so obsessed with sex that they don’t even care about anyone but themselves. I have to pay copays when I buy antbiotics for my children or my daughters epipen and our insurance costs $14k per year. This girl has Ivy league credentials and can’t even comprehend that nothing in life is really free. Sandra, honey, FREE is just a bumper sticker to buy votes from an unintelligent base, with your credentials you should at least have some critical thinking skills. Obama should have been apologizing to her because the education system has failed her.
The Left continues to be gutless.
“Let’s beat up on the Catholics again, they won’t mind.”
A Feminine Studies major, going to a Catholic institution, complaining that all the sex she is having is too expensive. Its almost a parody of itself. Fluke is destined to become a punchline.
Come on Lefties, show some imagination – get some Saudi or Iranian woman to give sworn testimony before Congress on how much unmarried sex she is having. Then watch the Middle Eastern street blow up with protests demanding her execution as an “honor killing.” Look at how wild they went over buring some books.
It’s almost like every Easter season, they have an art exhibit with a chocolate Christ or a Madonna covered in feces. Boring.
Print Mohammed’s image on some condoms and start passing those out. Now the response to that would be newsworthy.
Or how about a burning of the holy book of the Planned Parenthood ecojihadist left, “Ecoscience”, and see how they react.
Bloodclots, strokes, heart attacks, and depression are the most common side effects of birth control pills. So, up here in Canada, as soon as a mother tells her doctor she does not wish to have any more children, the doctor recommends tubal ligation (sterilization) because of the dangers of remaining on the pill. I suspect that fewer women die or become ill in childbirth than die or become ill from complications of birth control pills. So what will Americans be subsidizing when they pay for Ms. Fluke’s birth control pills? Health? or Illness/death?
Also, what business does Obama have calling for civility after denigrating the Catholic Church. Rush does not speak for the Church, as a matter of fact he has actually said that this is what the Church has coming to them. So, Obama I demand an apology to those in the Catholic community who do follow church teachings and have been smeared by the left and called filthy breeders from your supporters.
Id love to discuss the 15% unemployment rate, %5.00 a gallon gas, the failure of the taxpayer subsidized Chevy Volt and Solyndra schemes, the cancellation of the Keystone Pipeline, the cutting of Military health and retirement plans, the 5 US Soldiers who are being cashiered from their military careers because they followed explicit written procedures for disposing of terrorist communication devices, but I’m really busy right now working on a way to ensure that women attending private religious colleges can get the taxpayers of this country to pay for their contraception because as well are all aware, women attending private colleges are the poorest of the poor, it is well known that the Ivy League is the Mississippi of the college world.
The poor girl, if only she could have gotten into a state college or perhaps a Community College, where contraception is free and as easy to acquire as a glass of water from the tap, but apparently she was forced to attend a private institution, and thus her life of toil at the hands of those patrician overlords began.
And don’t you dare suggest that personal responsibility plays any role at all in contraception at all, you sexist bastards.
I’ve heard about “effing lawyers” my entire life… now I know who the “effing lawyer” is.
But I must disagree that the discussion is about “licentious lifestyles”, it’s about forcing other people to pay for whatever you want. Whether it’s contraceptives, cars, houses or a college education Sandra Fluke has created a big problem for the Democrats. Once people start asking “why should I be paying for your (insert blank, literally in this case)” then they’ll start asking about all of the other handouts. The Dems thought they had a winner but a Fluke may make it a loser.
After seeing her picture I doubt that pregnancy is a real problem.
i have read that she studied extensively the health care policy of her law school and decided to attend precisely to challenge the policy over this.
This entire scene was a set up that the Liberals have been planning for a long time.
These people are not just shameless. They are machiavellian.
Machiavelli gets a bad rap in that. His tome, The Prince is all about a Prince’s responsibilities to his lineage, his nation and his people.
Perhaps something more along the lines of the Borgia: when they patted you on the back, it was to feel precisely where to stick the knife in.
I’ve got an even more fundamental question than Ms. Parasite’s background attending one of the most expensive universities in the nation.
Georgetown is a Jesuit University. And according to their mission statement:
Why are the Jesuits tolerating this? Ms. Parasite is an anathema to the very message of your mission. Why isn’t the Catholic Church stepping up to and saying, “Ms. Fluke is out. And any of the administration that has openly supported her is gone too. We will reimburse her for her tuition paid, but Ms. Fluke needs to find another academic institution more in line with her ideals and ideas of virtue, because they are diametrically opposed to the very tenets of this university.”
This is the bottom line to all of my Catholic Brothers and Sisters. Your institutes have been taken over by a bunch of godless, liberal politicians masquerading as theologists. And it is way overdue for you to do exactly what many Evangelical schools have done the last 10-15 years. You need to clean house. Now. Get rid of all these bums you have let infest your your academic administration.
Apparently Obama had not watched Nicki Manaj’s Grammy performance denigrating the Church. Now she is one classy whore! Apparently the left is allowed to be utterly vile and still play the victim.
1) She’s an activist, and this is theatre.
2) Odimwit still hasn’t called Brian Terry’s family to express condolences. No political good in that…
The woman is whining about how much she has to pay for birth control? Interesting. I suspect the tuition at Georgetown is at least $50K a year. I find it hard to believe she can’t pop a few bucks for a box of condoms now and then. Just sayin’.
Yet another stop on the TOTUS 2012 Apology Tour.
Abstinence is free. Too bad Flake…errr…Fluke’s parents didn’t practice it.
“Fluke is no victim. She’s a provocateur, and she deserves what she gets.”
I think we should treat her as nicely as the left treated Palin.
Now, a young, ambitious reporter should get on out there and interview Ms Fluke’s various bed partners, and given her coolness, include female as well as male partners.
You wanna bet there are very few of either?
They’ve got us all watching each other now. I.e., if you smoke, we’ll all have to pay your bills. If you’re fat, etc., etc. (Next will be if you don’t exercise enough.) So you can be punished for those gross offenses against the State. (They do so in England, i.e., took children away from their mother because she was fat!)
So, let’s inform Ms. Fluke, if she wants us to pay for her birth control, then we get to decide how often she has sex!
Welcome to the U.S.S.R! (and 1984!)
No morals, no values, no decency, no God. Only me, me, me, me, me. Politics is just a symptom of the disease and nearly all the big problems America faces today could be traced to two letters of the alphabet: me.
Since when do female college students spend anything on birth control?
Last time I checked, the guy had to bring the condom if he wanted to score.